Tragedy and Citizenship

Tragedy and CitizenshipA study of attitudes towards tragedy in both democratic and nondemocractic political theory. 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

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