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Author : Robert C. Pirro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441125064
This study of the political significance of theories of tragedy and ordinary language uses of "tragedy" offers a fresh perspective on democracy in contemporary times.
Author : Robert Carl Pirro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political psychology
ISBN : 1501301829
Author : Derek Wai Ming Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1435695607
A study of attitudes toward tragedy in both democratic and nondemocratic political theory.
Author : Derek W. M. Barker
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791477403
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.
Author : Robert C. Pirro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441189462
This study of the political significance of theories of tragedy and ordinary language uses of "tragedy" offers a fresh perspective on democracy in contemporary times.
Author : Simon Goldhill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009183048
This book is an advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy. It is written specifically for the reader who does not know Greek and who may be unfamiliar with the context of the Athenian drama festival but who nevertheless wants to appreciate the plays in all their complexity. Simon Goldhill aims to combine the best contemporary scholarly criticism in classics with a wide knowledge of modern literary studies in other fields. He discusses the masterpieces of Athenian drama in the light of contemporary critical controversies in such a way as to enable the student or scholar not only to understand and appreciate the texts of the most commonly read plays, but also to evaluate and utilize the range of approaches to the problems of ancient drama. This revised edition contains a substantial new Introduction which engages with critical and scholarly developments in Greek tragedy since the original publication.
Author : Rebecca Bushnell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405192460
A Companion to Tragedy is an essential resource for anyone interested in exploring the role of tragedy in Western history and culture. Tells the story of the historical development of tragedy from classical Greece to modernity Features 28 essays by renowned scholars from multiple disciplines, including classics, English, drama, anthropology and philosophy Broad in its scope and ambition, it considers interpretations of tragedy through religion, philosophy and history Offers a fresh assessment of Ancient Greek tragedy and demonstrates how the practice of reading tragedy has changed radically in the past two decades
Author : Greg A. Graham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315444505
A ground-breaking work in Africana political thought that links the plight of progressive political endeavors in Africa with those in the Diaspora and beyond, Democratic Tragedy in the Postcolony engages with two of the defining political sagas of the postcolonial era. The book presents Michael Manley of Jamaica and Nelson Mandela of South Africa as tragic political leaders at the helm of popular democratic projects that run aground in the face of the constraints that a subordinate position in the global economy presents for such endeavors. Jamaica’s experiment with democratic socialism as an alternative path to development at the height of the cold war is considered alongside post-Apartheid South Africa’s search for a development model consistent with the demand for civic empowerment and equitable distribution of social goods in the aftermath of Apartheid. Democratic Political Tragedy in the Postcolony theorizes the defining tragic impasse and the telling vacillations by which the postcolonies in question are brought to the neoliberal catastrophes that currently prevail.
Author : Helene P. Foley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400824731
Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential social and moral forces in their own right. Scholars have struggled to explain this seeming contradiction. Helene Foley shows how Greek tragedy uses gender relations to explore specific issues in the development of the social, political, and intellectual life in the polis. She investigates three central and problematic areas in which tragic heroines act independently of men: death ritual and lamentation, marriage, and the making of significant ethical choices. Her anthropological approach, together with her literary analysis, allows for an unusually rich context in which to understand gender relations in ancient Greece. This book examines, for example, the tragic response to legislation regulating family life that may have begun as early as the sixth century. It also draws upon contemporary studies of virtue ethics and upon feminist reconsiderations of the Western ethical tradition. Foley maintains that by viewing public issues through the lens of the family, tragedy asks whether public and private morality can operate on the same terms. Moreover, the plays use women to represent significant moral alternatives. Tragedy thus exploits, reinforces, and questions cultural clichés about women and gender in a fashion that resonates with contemporary Athenian social and political issues.
Author : Simon Goldhill
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780226301273
Space and concept -- The chorus -- The actor's role -- Tragedy and politics : what's Hecuba to him? -- Translations : finding a script -- Gods, ghosts, and Helen of Troy
Author : Bert van den Brink
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-08-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791492161
Drawing on recent developments in liberal theory, Bert van den Brink develops an alternative defense of liberalism. He argues that liberal theorists should admit that their doctrine is not neutral with regard to conceptions of the good life—that it in fact fosters ideals of personal autonomy and a pluralist environment. These ideals generate irreconcilable, tragic conflicts between liberal and nonliberal ideals, and it is only by taking these conflicts seriously that liberals can learn of the unwanted consequences of liberal doctrine, effectively rebut critics, and react adequately to the complex pluralism of contemporary societies.
Author : P. E. Easterling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521423511
As a creative medium, ancient Greek tragedy has had an extraordinarily wide influence: many of the surviving plays are still part of the theatrical repertoire, and texts like Agamemnon, Antigone, and Medea have had a profound effect on Western culture. This Companion is not a conventional introductory textbook but an attempt, by seven distinguished scholars, to present the familiar corpus in the context of modern reading, criticism, and performance of Greek tragedy. There are three main emphases: on tragedy as an institution in the civic life of ancient Athens, on a range of different critical interpretations arising from fresh readings of the texts, and on changing patterns of reception, adaptation, and performance from antiquity to the present. Each chapter can be read independently, but each is linked with the others, and most examples are drawn from the same selection of plays.
Author : Stephen D. Dowden,Thomas P. Quinn
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781571135858
Essays in this volume seek to clarify the meaning of tragedy and the tragic in its many German contexts, art forms, and disciplines, from literature and philosophy to music, painting, and history.
Author : Emily Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350154889
In this volume, tragedy in antiquity is examined synoptically, from its misty origins in archaic Greece, through its central position in the civic life of ancient Athens and its performances across the Greek-speaking world, to its new and very different instantiations in Republican and Imperial Roman contexts. Lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the shifting dramatic forms, performance environments, and social meanings of tragedy as it was repeatedly reinvented. Tragedy was consistently seen as the most serious of all dramatic genres; these essays trace a sequence of different visions of what the most serious kind of dramatic story might be, and the most appropriate ways of telling those stories on stage. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual, and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
Author : Aeschylus,Euripides,Sophocles
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141961712
Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover the devastating truth about his relationship with his mother and his father. Medea is the terrible story of a woman's bloody revenge on her adulterous husband through the murder of her own children.
