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By Alex Adams

"Political Torture in Popular Culture" by Alex Adams offers an insightful exploration into the complex intersections between entertainment media and real-world political discourse surrounding torture, particularly in the aftermath of 9/11. Adams delves into the ways in which popular culture represents and shapes public perceptions of torture, shedding light on the broader implications of these representations on societal attitudes and policy debates. Through meticulous analysis and compelling examples, this book invites readers to critically examine the influence of media depictions on the wider socio-political landscape. A must-read for those interested in understanding the interconnectedness of popular culture, politics, and moral complexities in contemporary society."

NY. Routledge. 2016. 214p.

Edited by Giulia Gaimari and Catherine Keen

Ethics, Politics and Justice in Dante presents new research by international scholars on the themes of ethics, politics and justice in the works of Dante Alighieri, including chapters on Dante’s modern ‘afterlife’.

Together the chapters explore how Dante’s writings engage with the contemporary culture of medieval Florence and Italy, and how and why his political and moral thought still speaks compellingly to modern readers. The collection’s contributors range across different disciplines and scholarly traditions – history, philology, classical reception, philosophy, theology – to scrutinise Dante’s Divine Comedy and his other works in Italian and Latin, offering a multi-faceted approach to the evolution of Dante’s political, ethical and legal thought throughout his writing career.

Certain chapters focus on his early philosophical Convivio and on the accomplished Latin Eclogues of his final years, while others tackle knotty themes relating to judgement, justice, rhetoric and literary ethics in his Divine Comedy, from hell to paradise. The closing chapters discuss different modalities of the public reception and use of Dante’s work in both Italy and Britain, bringing the volume’s emphasis on morality, political philosophy, and social justice into the modern age of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.

London: UCL Press, 2019. 192p.