Tragedy and Citizenship

Tragedy and Citizenship
Title Tragedy and Citizenship PDF eBook
Author Derek W. M. Barker
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 201
Release 2008-11-05
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0791477401

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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.

The Politics of Tragedy and Democratic Citizenship

The Politics of Tragedy and Democratic Citizenship
Title The Politics of Tragedy and Democratic Citizenship PDF eBook
Author Robert C. Pirro
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 252
Release 2011-03-31
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1441165258

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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.

The Lessons of Tragedy

The Lessons of Tragedy
Title The Lessons of Tragedy PDF eBook
Author Hal Brands
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 183
Release 2019-02-26
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0300244924

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A “brilliant” examination of American complacency and how it puts the nation’s—and the world’s—security at risk (The Wall Street Journal). The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a communal sense of responsibility and courage—to spur citizens and their leaders to take the difficult actions necessary to avert such a fate. Today, after more than seventy years of great-power peace and a quarter-century of unrivaled global leadership, Americans have lost their sense of tragedy. They have forgotten that the descent into violence and war has been all too common throughout human history. This amnesia has become most pronounced just as Americans and the global order they created are coming under graver threat than at any time in decades. In a forceful argument that brims with historical sensibility and policy insights, two distinguished historians argue that a tragic sensibility is necessary if America and its allies are to address the dangers that menace the international order today. Tragedy may be commonplace, Brands and Edel argue, but it is not inevitable—so long as we regain an appreciation of the world’s tragic nature before it is too late. “Literate and lucid—sure to interest to readers of Fukuyama, Huntington, and similar authors as well as students of modern realpolitik.” —Kirkus Reviews

Gujarat, the Making of a Tragedy

Gujarat, the Making of a Tragedy
Title Gujarat, the Making of a Tragedy PDF eBook
Author Siddharth Varadarajan
Publisher Penguin Books India
Pages 476
Release 2002
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780143029014

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Is Gujarat a turning point for India? The events at Godhra and the ensuing communal carnage in Gujarat, like the Babri Masjid demolition and the 1984 massacres, constitute an ugly chapter of our contemporary history. For the sheer brutality, persistence and widespread nature of the violence, especially against women and children, the complicity of the State, the ghettoization of communities, and the indifference of civil society, Gujarat has surpassed anything we have experienced in recent times. That this happened in one of India's most 'well off' and 'progressive' states, the home of the Mahatma, is all the more alarming. This book is intended to be a permanent public archive of the tragedy that is Gujarat. Drawing upon eyewitness reports from the English, Hindi and regional media, citizens' and official fact-finding commissions - and articles by leading public figures and intellectuals - it provides a chilling account of how and why the state was allowed to burn. With an overview by the editor, the reader covers the circumstances leading up to Godhra and the violence in Ahmedabad, Baroda and rural Gujarat. Separate sections deal with the role of the police, bureaucracy, Sangh Parivar, media and the tribals, the economic and international implications of the violence, the problems of relief and rehabilitation of the victims, and, above all, their quest for justice. The picture that emerges is deeply disturbing, for Gujarat has exposed the ease with which the rights of citizens, and especially minorities, can be violated with official sanction. The lessons of the violence ought to be heeded and acted upon by the public. For, in the absence of this, can another Gujarat be prevented from happening elsewhere?

Reading Greek Tragedy

Reading Greek Tragedy
Title Reading Greek Tragedy PDF eBook
Author Simon Goldhill
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 322
Release 1986-05-08
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780521315791

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An advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy for those who do not read Greek. Combines the best contemporary scholarly analysis of the classics with a wide knowledge of contemporary literary studies in discussing the masterpieces of Athenian drama.

Aeschylus’s Suppliant Women

Aeschylus’s Suppliant Women
Title Aeschylus’s Suppliant Women PDF eBook
Author Geoffrey W. Bakewell
Publisher University of Wisconsin Pres
Pages 227
Release 2013-08-16
Genre Drama
ISBN 0299291731

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As Athenians of the classical era became increasingly aware of their own collective identity, they sought to define themselves and exclude others. They created a formal legal status to designate the free noncitizens living among them, calling them metics and calling their status metoikia. When Aeschylus dramatized the mythical flight of the Danaids from Egypt in his play Suppliant Women, he did so in light of his own time and place. Throughout the play, directly and indirectly, he casts the newcomers as metics and their stay in Greece as metoikia. Bakewell maps the manifold anxieties that metics created in classical Athens, showing that although citizens benefited from the many immigrants in their midst, they also feared the effects of immigration in political, sexual, and economic realms. Bakewell finds metoikia was a deeply flawed solution to the problem of large-scale immigration.

Cultures of Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century

Cultures of Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century
Title Cultures of Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century PDF eBook
Author Vanessa Evans
Publisher transcript Verlag
Pages 341
Release 2023-12-31
Genre Social Science
ISBN 3839470196

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In the early twenty-first century, the concept of citizenship is more contested than ever. As refugees set out to cross the Mediterranean, European nation-states refer to »cultural integrity« and »immigrant inassimilability,« revealing citizenship to be much more than a legal concept. The contributors to this volume take an interdisciplinary approach to considering how cultures of citizenship are being envisioned and interrogated in literary and cultural (con)texts. Through this framework, they attend to the tension between the citizen and its spectral others - a tension determined by how a country defines difference at a given moment.