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Tragedy and citizenship : conflict, reconciliation, and democracy from Haemon to Hegel / Derek W.M. Barker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barker, Derek Wai Ming.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science--Greece--History--To 1500.
- Political science.
- Political science--Philosophy--History.
- Greek drama (Tragedy)--Political aspects.
- Greek drama (Tragedy).
- Citizenship--Philosophy.
- Citizenship.
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831--Political and social views.
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (200 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Listening to Haemon : citizenship in the Antigone
- Pity, fear, and citizenship : the politics of Aristotle's Poetics
- Hegel and the politics of reconciliation
- Redescription as reconciliation : Richard Rorty
- John Rawls and Hegelian political philosophy
- Judith Butler's postmodern antigone
- Conclusion : tragedy, citizenship, and the human condition.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-182) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791477403
- 0791477401
- 9781435695603
- 1435695607
- OCLC:
- 299174724
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