Greek Tragedy And Political Philosophy

Author : Peter J. Ahrensdorf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139475587

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Greek Tragedy and Political Philosophy by Peter J. Ahrensdorf Pdf

In this book, Peter Ahrensdorf examines Sophocles' powerful analysis of a central question of political philosophy and a perennial question of political life: should citizens and leaders govern political society by the light of unaided human reason or religious faith? Through an examination of Sophocles' timeless masterpieces - Oedipus the Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone - Ahrensdorf offers a sustained challenge to the prevailing view, championed by Nietzsche in his attack on Socratic rationalism, that Sophocles is an opponent of rationalism. Ahrensdorf argues that Sophocles is a genuinely philosophical thinker and a rationalist, albeit one who advocates a cautious political rationalism. Ahrensdorf concludes with an incisive analysis of Nietzsche, Socrates and Aristotle on tragedy and philosophy. He argues, against Nietzsche, that the rationalism of Socrates and Aristotle incorporates a profound awareness of the tragic dimension of human existence and therefore resembles in fundamental ways the somber and humane rationalism of Sophocles.

Author : Peter J. Ahrensdorf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0511508492

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Greek Tragedy and Political Philosophy by Peter J. Ahrensdorf Pdf

In this 2009 book, Peter Ahrensdorf provides a sustained challenge to the prevailing view that Sophocles is an opponent of rationalism.

Author : J. Peter Euben
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691218182

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The Tragedy of Political Theory by J. Peter Euben Pdf

In this book J. Peter Euben argues that Greek tragedy was the context for classical political theory and that such theory read in terms of tragedy provides a ground for contemporary theorizing alert to the concerns of post-modernism, such as normalization, the dominance of humanism, and the status of theory. Euben shows how ancient Greek theater offered a place and occasion for reflection on the democratic culture it helped constitute, in part by confronting the audience with the otherwise unacknowledged principles of social exclusion that sustained its community. Euben makes his argument through a series of comparisons between three dramas (Aeschylus' Oresteia, Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos, and Euripides' Bacchae) and three works of classical political theory (Thucydides' History and Plato's Apology of Socrates and Republic) on the issues of justice, identity, and corruption. He brings his discussion to a contemporary American setting in a concluding chapter on Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 in which the road from Argos to Athens, built to differentiate a human domain from the undefined outside, has become a Los Angeles freeway desecrating the land and its people in a predatory urban sprawl.

Author : Christopher Rocco
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780520331365

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Tragedy and Enlightenment by Christopher Rocco Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

Author : J. Peter Euben
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0520055721

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Greek Tragedy and Political Theory by J. Peter Euben Pdf

Author : Jonathan N. Badger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780415625623

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Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy by Jonathan N. Badger Pdf

Focuses on Sophocles' dramatization of fundamental political impasses and applies these to the competing political theories of Thomas, Bacon and Locke.

Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781524747954

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Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us by Simon Critchley Pdf

From the moderator of The New York Times philosophy blog "The Stone," a book that argues that if we want to understand ourselves we have to go back to theater, to the stage of our lives Tragedy presents a world of conflict and troubling emotion, a world where private and public lives collide and collapse. A world where morality is ambiguous and the powerful humiliate and destroy the powerless. A world where justice always seems to be on both sides of a conflict and sugarcoated words serve as cover for clandestine operations of violence. A world rather like our own. The ancient Greeks hold a mirror up to us, in which we see all the desolation and delusion of our lives but also the terrifying beauty and intensity of existence. This is not a time for consolation prizes and the fatuous banalities of the self-help industry and pop philosophy. Tragedy allows us to glimpse, in its harsh and unforgiving glare, the burning core of our aliveness. If we give ourselves the chance to look at tragedy, we might see further and more clearly.

Author : Denise Eileen McCoskey,Emily Zakin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781438427171

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Bound by the City by Denise Eileen McCoskey,Emily Zakin Pdf

This collection offers a vibrant exploration of the bonds between sexual difference and political structure in Greek tragedy. In looking at how the acts of violence and tortured kinship relations are depicted in the work of all three major Greek tragic playwrights—Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides—the contributors shed light on the workings and failings of the Greek polis, and explore the means by which sexual difference and the city take shape in relation to each other. The volume complements and expands the efforts of current feminist interpretations of Antigone and the Oresteia by considering the meanings of tragedy for ancient Athenian audiences while also unveiling the reverberations of Greek tragedy's formulations and dilemmas in modern political life and for contemporary political philosophy.

Author : Robert Carl Pirro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0875802680

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Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Tragedy by Robert Carl Pirro Pdf

A German Jewish refugee suffering tremendous personal and political upheaval during the years of Nazi conquest, Hannah Arendt turned to classical literature and drama as she struggled to make sense of the terrible events of her time. Studying fiction, plays, and poetry, she found a way to meld theoretical political philosophy and concrete personal commitment to action. Among her literary resources, the epics and plays of ancient Greece provided the ideal balance of politics and culture. In Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Tragedy, Pirro focuses especially on the influence of Greek tragedy on Arendt's political writings. Pirro casts Arendt's political thought as tragic storytelling, crafted to inspire her audience both to appreciate political freedoms and to act on those freedoms by participating in public life. Echoing an affinity for Greek drama common in the tradition of German philosophy and letters, Arendt draws on tragic characters, scenes, and dramatic conventions, as well as theories, to assess the maddening and often fatal contradictions of political life in modern times. Classical narratives of heroic achievements and failures shape the structure and content of Arendtian thought, as when she compares Jewish refugees' attempts to confront their stateless condition during the 1930s and 1940s to Ulysses's mythical quest. Turning her attention in the postwar years to the promise and limits of political freedom in American life, Arendt invokes Sophocles's last drama, Oedipus at Colonus, in an attempt to outline an alternative, aesthetic sense of political authority in the American Republic. In providing this new avenue of approach to Arendt, Pirro shows how elements of Greek tragedy helped her grapple with the problems of modern politics in the chaos of a universe without rules. Arendt enthusiasts and readers interested in the classics and politics will find fresh ideas to consider in Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Tragedy.

Author : Dana LaCourse Munteanu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781139502344

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Tragic Pathos by Dana LaCourse Munteanu Pdf

Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Plato's critique of pity in the Republic. However, this book shows that, while Greek thinkers all acknowledge pity and some form of fear as responses to tragedy, each assumes for the two emotions a different purpose, mode of presentation and, to a degree, understanding. This book reassesses expressions of the emotions within different tragedies and explores emotional responses to and discussions of the tragedies by contemporary philosophers, providing insights into the ethical and social implications of the emotions.

Author : T. Erskine,R. Lebow
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230390331

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Tragedy and International Relations by T. Erskine,R. Lebow Pdf

Nowhere are clashes between competing ethical perspectives more prevalent than in the realm of International Relations. Thus, understanding tragedy is directly relevant to understanding IR. This volume explores the various ways that tragedy can be used as a lens through which international relations might be brought into clearer focus.

Author : Peter J. Ahrensdorf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521515863

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Greek Tragedy and Political Philosophy by Peter J. Ahrensdorf Pdf

In this book, Peter Ahrensdorf provides a sustained challenge to the prevailing view that Sophocles is an opponent of rationalism.

Author : Christian Meier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801847273

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The Political Art of Greek Tragedy by Christian Meier Pdf

According to Christian Meier, one of Germany's leading classicists, a Greek tragedy cannot be considered simply a work of art or a reflection of ancient modes of thought. He argues that it is essential to understand tragedy's interaction with the practiceof Greek democracy. In The Political Art of Greek Tragedy he focuses on the works of Aeschylus to examine the close relationship between drama and politics at the beginning of the great age of Greek tragedy. "Christian Meier has produced an outstanding new account of the politics of Athenian tragedy, interpreting political' broadly and illuminating Athenian religious ritual and theatrical experience by a systematic and subtle use of the comparative method."--Paul Cartledge, Clare College, Cambridge.

Author : D. L. Cairns
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910589168

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Tragedy and Archaic Greek Thought by D. L. Cairns Pdf

Eight leading contemporary interpreters of Classical Greek tragedy here explore its relation to the thought of the Archaic Period. Prominent topics are the nature and possibility of divine justice; the influence of the gods on humans; fate and human responsibility; the instability of fortune and the principle of alternation; hybris and ate; and the inheritance of guilt and suffering. Other themes are tragedy's relation with Pre-Socratic philosophy, and the interplay between 'Archaic' features of the genre and fifth-century ethical and political thought. The book makes a powerful case for the importance of Archaic thought not only in the evolution of the tragic genre, but also for developed features of the Classical tragedians' art. Along with three papers on Aeschylus, four on Sophocles, and one on Euripides, there is an extensive introduction by the editor.

Author : Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521794722

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The Fragility of Goodness by Martha C. Nussbaum Pdf

This book, first published in 2001, is a study of ancient views about 'moral luck'.