Title: Hannah Arendt and the politics of tragedy /
Authors: Pirro, Robert Carl.
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Arendt, Hannah, Contributions in political science.; Arendt, Hannah,; Legitimacy of governments.; Tragic, The Political aspects.
Abstract: "In Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Tragedy, Pirro focuses especially on the influence of Greek tragedy on Arendt's political writings. Pirro casts Arendt's political thought as tragic storytelling, crafted to inspire her audience both to appreciate political freedoms and to act on those freedoms by participating in public life. Echoing an affinity for Greek drama common in the tradition of German philosophy and letters, Arendt draws on tragic characters, scenes, and dramatic conventions, as well as theories, to assess the maddening and often fatal contradictions of political life in modern times."
Contents: Greek tragedy, storytelling, and political theory: in search of an intuitive basis for a democratic citizenship -- Arendt's resort to Greek tragedy in the context of German Philhellenism -- Tragic foundations: promoting political freedom in a post-authority world -- Tragic intuitions: judgment as an instance of political freedom -- Mortal messages: tragic theory and democratic heroism.