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The politics of tragedy and democratic citizenship / by Robert C. Pirro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pirro, Robert Carl.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tragic, The--Political aspects.
- Tragic, The.
- Political psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Continuum, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Public officials, journalists and ordinary citizens frequently use words like ""tragedy"" and ""tragic"" when trying to make sense of burdensome events and painful setbacks. Political theorists and philosophers have long used the example of Greek tragedy and notions of the tragic to reflect on the nature and significance of democracy in modern life. Pirro offers a way to understand the deep connections between these two seemingly disparate and unconnected discourses of tragedy. Those connections are to be found, he argues, in the interdependent relationship between tragedy and democracy, wh
- Contents:
- section 1. Tragedy and political agency
- section 2. Tragedy and political solidarity
- section 3. Tragedy and political identity.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613272270
- 9781441125064
- 144112506X
- 9781283272278
- 128327227X
- 9781441189462
- 1441189467
- OCLC:
- 710974927
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