Jonathan N Badger

Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy

Cities and Transcendence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780415625623
• ISBN-10: 0415625629
• Artikelnr.: 35053885

Autorenporträt

Jonathan N. Badger is Associate Professor at St. John's College, Annapolis.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. Tragic Insights Part I 2. Parallax and Politics in Ajax
3. Death and Desire in Antigone 4. Friendship and Necessity in Philoctetes
Part II 5. Medieval Visions and the Early Modern Project 6. The Tragic
Politics of John Locke 7. Karl Jaspers and the End of Tragedy Conclusion.