Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy
Taylor & Francis
Sophocles and the Politics of TragedyCities and Transcendence\nAuthor(s): Jonathan N. Badger\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138903111, 978-1138903111\nSynopsis\nSophocles 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 communitys need for bodily safety and material security on the other. This conceptual structure not only helps us understand these plays but also establishes a distinctive vision of the tragic dimension of political lifea vision that can be applied fruitfully to examinations of political projects quite distant from the worl.
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