Literature for a Society of Equals

Literature for a Society of Equals defends modern equality and seeks its best literature. For students and teachers of literature at the university level, this volume is a guide to those writings that champion equality as relational, sacred, and ours-not time's-to realize.

Daniel S. Malachuk (PhD, Literatures in English, Rutgers) researches literature and political theory. Former Fellow at U. Notre Dame's Institute for Advanced Study (2013) and Fulbright Senior Lecturer at U. Heidelberg (2014), he is a Professor of English at Western Illinois University.

Introduction I. Equality 1. Attenuation: Equality as Mere Opportunity 2. Secularism: Equality as Unworthy of Exaltation 3. Optimism: Equality as Inevitable II. Pessimism 4. Canonical Pessimist Egalitarians 5. Expanding the Canon 6. Contemporary Pessimist Egalitarians III. Reciprocity 7. Reciprocity as a Practice 8. Reciprocity as a Theme 9. Reciprocity as a Form Conclusion