Tragedy and Citizenship Conflict, Reconciliation, and Democracy from Haemon to Hegel
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Sprache:Englisch
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.07.2009
Verlag
Ingram Publishers ServicesSeitenzahl
198
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/1.1 cm
Gewicht
295 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-7914-7630-7
A study of attitudes towards tragedy in both democratic and nondemocractic political theory. Tragedy and Citizenship provides a wide-ranging exploration of attitudes toward tragedy and their implications for politics. Derek W. M. Barker reads the history of political thought as a contest between the tragic view of politics that accepts conflict and uncertainty, and an optimistic perspective that sees conflict as self-dissolving. Drawing on Aristotle's political thought, alongside a novel reading of the Antigone that centers on Haemon, its most neglected character, Barker provides contemporary democratic theory with a theory of tragedy. He sees Hegel's philosophy of reconciliation as a critical turning point that results in the elimination of citizenship. By linking Hegel's failure to address the tragic dimensions of politics to Richard Rorty, John Rawls, and Judith Butler, Barkeroffers a major reassessment of contemporary political theory and a fresh perspective on the most urgent challenges facing democratic politics. Derek W. M. Barker is a program officer at the Kettering Foundation.
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