Sophocles and the politics of tragedy : cities and transcendence / / Jonathan N. Badger
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| Autore: |
Badger Jonathan N.
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| Titolo: |
Sophocles and the politics of tragedy : cities and transcendence / / Jonathan N. Badger
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 882/.01 |
| Soggetto topico: | Politics in literature |
| Tragedy - History and criticism | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Tragic insights -- Parallax and politics in Ajax -- Death and desire in Antigone -- Friendship and necessity in Philoctetes -- Medieval visions and the early modern project -- The tragic politics of John Locke -- Karl Jaspers and the end of tragedy. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy?is an inquiry into a fundamental political problem made visible through the tragic poetry of Sophocles.?In part I?Badger offers a detailed exegesis of three plays:?Ajax,?Antigone, and?Philoctetes. These plays share a common theme, illuminating a persistent feature of political life, namely the antagonism between the heroic commitment to the beautiful and the transcendent on the one?hand, and the community's need for bodily safety and material security on the other. This conceptual structure not only helps us understan |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sophocles and the politics of tragedy |
| ISBN: | 0-203-10340-8 |
| 1-299-27916-3 | |
| 1-136-24460-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910465643803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Routledge innovations in political theory ; ; 48.