The politics of tragedy and democratic citizenship
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The politics of tragedy and democratic citizenship
Continuum, c2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-237) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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. Public officials, journalists and ordinary citizens frequently use words like 'tragedy' and 'tragic' when trying to make sense of burdensome events and painful setbacks. Political theorists and philosophers have long used the example of Greek tragedy and notions of the tragic to reflect on the nature and significance of democracy in modern life. Pirro offers a way to understand the deep connections between these two seemingly disparate and unconnected discourses of tragedy. Those connections are to be found, he argues, in the interdependent relationship between tragedy and democracy, which first manifested itself in the democratic polis of ancient Athens. The book considers how tragedy has been used to promote democratic activism, foster civic solidarity in times of democratic transition, and form a sense of national identity.
Written in an accessible manner and drawing upon political speeches, journalistic reports, works of popular film and literature, and academic writings, "The Tragedy of Politics" reveals the tragic understandings that form the core of some important contemporary visions of democracy.
目次
- 1. Robert Kennedy and Robert McNamara: Contrasting Visions of Tragedy in the Sixties
- SECTION I: TRAGEDY AND POLITICAL AGENCY
- 2. Vaclav Havel: The Political Uses of Tragedy in the Aftermath of Communism
- 3. Italian Neorealism: Tragic Cinema in the Aftermath of Fascism
- 4. Cornel West: Tragedy and the Fulfillment of American Democracy
- SECTION II: TRAGEDY AND POLITICAL SOLIDARITY
- 5. Nelson Mandela: Tragedy in a Divided South Africa
- 6. 9/11: Tragedy and Theodicy as American Responses to Suffering
- SECTION III: TRAGEDY AND POLITICAL IDENTITY
- 7. Botho Strauss: Goatsong in a Democratic Key?
- 8. Christa Wolf: Greek Tragedy and German Democracy
- 9. Michael Schorr's Schultze Gets the Blues: German Borrowings from the New World African Tragic
- 10. Hannah Arendt: Anticipating a Different Kind of Sixties Tragedy.
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