The Spy Novels of John Le Carre
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The Spy Novels of John Le Carre

Balancing Ethics and Politics

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The Spy Novels of John Le Carre

Balancing Ethics and Politics

About this book

Using espionage as a metaphor for politics, John le Carré explores the dilemmas that confront individuals and governments as they act during and in the aftermath of the Cold War. His unforgettable characters struggle to maintain personal and professional integrity while facing conflicting personal, institutional, and ideological loyalties. In The Spy Novels of John le Carré, author Myron Aronoff interprets the ambiguous ethical and political implications of the work of John le Carré, revealing him to be one of the most important political writers of our time. Aronoff shows how through his writing, le Carré poses the difficult question of to what extent are western governments justified in pursuing raison d'état without undermining the very democratic freedoms that they claim to defend. He also draws parallels between the self-parody of le Carré and that of the seventeenth-century Dutch artist Jan Steen, and explains how it expresses a unique form of ambiguous moralism. In this volume Aronoff relates le Carré's fictional world to the real world of espionage, and demonstrates the need to balance the imperatives of ethics and politics in regard to some of the most pressing issues facing the world today.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Spy Novels of John le Carré
  3. Contents
  4. Preface/Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1 George Smiley: Liberal Sentiment and Skeptical Balance
  7. Chapter 2 Ambiguous Moralism: Loyalty and Betrayal
  8. Chapter 3 Skepticism: Balancing Dreams and Realities
  9. Chapter 4 Balancing Means and Ends:The Limits of Raison d’État
  10. Chapter 5 The Ambiguity of Human Nature: Motives and Personality
  11. Chapter 6 Bureaucratic Politics: Domestic and International
  12. Chapter 7 The Culture and Craft of Espionage
  13. Chapter 8 Fiction and the Real World of Espionage
  14. Chapter 9 Learning to Live with Ambiguity: Balancing Ethical and Political Imperatives
  15. Appendix
  16. Notes
  17. References:Work Cited
  18. Subject Index
  19. Name Index