Sophocles and the politics of tragedy
Subtitle: cities and transcendence
By: Jonathan N. Badger
Series: Routledge innovations in political theory -- 47
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780415625623; 9780203103401
Subjects: History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Politics in literature; Tragedy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Tragic insights; title: Parallax and politics in Ajax; title: Death and desire in Antigone; title: Friendship and necessity in Philoctetes; title: Medieval visions and the early modern project; title: The tragic politics of John Locke; title: Karl Jaspers and the end of tragedy.