Jonathan Floyd

Bill Fellars is a guidance counselor at Brownville High, a small Southern mill-town school. One day he notices what he assumes is a new student in the hallway. It turns out the new student is Randy Galphin, a former student at Brownville High. There is just one problem: Randy is dead. Representing a group of students who died before their time and are unhappy with their limbo existence yet unable to move on, Randy wants Bill to help them. Skirting some laws and breaking others, Bill works with the students to get them married, adopt a child, exact revenge, and other irregular situations that have been holding them back. But with a local thug out for his blood and the corrupt town cop breathing down his neck, can Bill remain alive or out of jail long enough to complete his mission? Lost on the Edge of Eternity provides a look at life and regrets, with a focus on second chances.

Lost on the Edge of Eternity

Marc Stears

Is the way in which political philosophy is conducted today too ahistorical? Does such ahistoricism render political philosophy too abstract? Is political philosophy thus incapable of dealing with the realities of political life? This volume brings together some of the world's leading political philosophers to address these crucial questions. The contributors focus especially on political philosophy's pretensions to universality and on its strained relationship with the world of real politics. Some chapters argue that political philosophers should not be cowed by the accusations levied against them from outside of their own field. Others insist that these accusations require a dramatic reshaping of normative political thought. The volume will spark controversy across political philosophy and beyond.

Jonathan Floyd

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