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Greek Tragedy and Political Philosophy
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Peter J. Ahrensdorf
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-06 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In this book, Peter Ahrensdorf examines Sophocles' powerful analysis of a central question of political philosophy and a perennial question of political life: s
Greek Tragedy and Political Philosophy
Language: en
Pages: 205
Authors: Peter J. Ahrensdorf
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-06 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In this book, Peter Ahrensdorf provides a sustained challenge to the prevailing view that Sophocles is an opponent of rationalism.
The Tragedy of Political Theory
Language: en
Pages: 331
Authors: J. Peter Euben
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990-05-16 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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In this book J. Peter Euben argues that Greek tragedy was the context for classical political theory and that such theory read in terms of tragedy provides a gr
Tragic Pathos
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Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Plato's criti
Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Tragedy
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Robert Carl Pirro
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher:

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A German Jewish refugee suffering tremendous personal and political upheaval during the years of Nazi conquest, Hannah Arendt turned to classical literature and