Derek W. M. Barker

Tragedy and Citizenship (eBook, PDF)

Conflict, Reconciliation, and Democracy from Haemon to Hegel

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780791477403
• Artikelnr.: 60500893

Autorenporträt

Derek W. M. Barker is a program officer at the Kettering Foundation.