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Power & Society

Ambition, law, and the stories we tell about rule.

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  1. Step 1 · Macbeth

    Macbeth

    William Shakespeare

    Ambition unchecked

  2. Step 2 · Antigone

    Antigone

    Sophocles

    The citizen against the state

  3. Step 3 · Republic

    The Republic

    Plato

    Justice, order, and the ideal city

  4. Step 4 · The Prince

    The Prince

    Niccolò Machiavelli

    Realpolitik and the ruler's craft

  5. Step 5 · Darkness

    Heart of Darkness

    Joseph Conrad

    Empire, complicity, and the river