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Tragedy and Citizenship
Derek W. M. Barker
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Conflict, Reconciliation, and Democracy from Haemon to Hegel
出版State University of New York Press, 2008-11-05
主題Philosophy / PoliticalPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy
ISBN07914774019780791477403
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=drUShrpajYwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.