The Politics of Tragedy and Democratic Citizenship
Title | The Politics of Tragedy and Democratic Citizenship PDF eBook |
Author | Robert C. Pirro |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2011-03-31 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 144112506X |
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.
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 |
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.
Tragedy and Citizenship
Title | Tragedy and Citizenship PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Wai Ming Barker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 187 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781435695603 |
A study of attitudes toward tragedy in both democratic and nondemocratic political theory.
The Politics of Tragedy and Democratic Citizenship
Title | The Politics of Tragedy and Democratic Citizenship PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Carl Pirro |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Political psychology |
ISBN | 9781501301827 |
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 |
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.
Disaster Citizenship
Title | Disaster Citizenship PDF eBook |
Author | Jacob A.C. Remes |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2015-12-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0252097947 |
A century ago, governments buoyed by Progressive Era–beliefs began to assume greater responsibility for protecting and rescuing citizens. Yet the aftermath of two disasters in the United States–Canada borderlands--the Salem Fire of 1914 and the Halifax Explosion of 1917--saw working class survivors instead turn to friends, neighbors, coworkers, and family members for succor and aid. Both official and unofficial responses, meanwhile, showed how the United States and Canada were linked by experts, workers, and money. In Disaster Citizenship, Jacob A. C. Remes draws on histories of the Salem and Halifax events to explore the institutions--both formal and informal--that ordinary people relied upon in times of crisis. He explores patterns and traditions of self-help, informal order, and solidarity and details how people adapted these traditions when necessary. Yet, as he shows, these methods--though often quick and effective--remained illegible to reformers. Indeed, soldiers, social workers, and reformers wielding extraordinary emergency powers challenged these grassroots practices to impose progressive "solutions" on what they wrongly imagined to be a fractured social landscape.
An American Tragedy
Title | An American Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | Theodore Dreiser |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com |
Pages | 526 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | New York (State) |
ISBN | 1427081271 |