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Tragedy and Citizenship

Conflict, Reconciliation, and Democracy from Haemon to Hegel

By: Derek W. M. Barker

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Tragedy and Citizenship

Conflict, Reconciliation, and Democracy from Haemon to Hegel

By: Derek W. M. Barker

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 political thought, alongside a novel reading of the Antigone that centers on Haemon, its most neglected character, Barker provides contemporary democratic theory with a theory of tragedy. He sees Hegel's philosophy of reconciliation as a critical turning point that results in the elimination of citizenship. By linking Hegel's failure to address the tragic dimensions of politics to Richard Rorty, John Rawls, and Judith Butler, Barkeroffers a major reassessment of contemporary political theory and a fresh perspective on the most urgent challenges facing democratic politics. Derek W. M. Barker is a program officer at the Kettering Foundation.

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0791477401

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Tragedy and Citizenship

Conflict, Reconciliation, and Democracy from Haemon to Hegel

By: Derek W. M. Barker

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Conflict, Reconciliation, and Democracy from Haemon to Hegel

By: Derek W. M. Barker

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

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SUNY Press

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0791476294

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Democratizing Deliberation

A Political Theory Anthology

By: Derek Wai Ming Barker,Noëlle McAfee,David Wallace McIvor

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Democratizing Deliberation

A Political Theory Anthology

By: Derek Wai Ming Barker,Noëlle McAfee,David Wallace McIvor

Democratizing Deliberation brings together recent and cutting-edge political theory scholarship on deliberative democracy. Edited by Kettering Foundation program officer Derek Barker, Noelle McAfee, associate professor of philosophy at Emory University and associate editor of the Kettering Review, and Kettering Foundation research associate David McIvor, the collection reframes deliberative democracy to be sensitive to the deep conflicts, multiple forms of communication, and aspirations for civic agency that characterize real public deliberation. In so doing, the book addresses many of the most common challenges to the theory and practice of deliberative democracy. Democratizing Deliberation includes a foreword by David Mathews, president of the Kettering Foundation, and the following essays: "Introduction: Democratizing Deliberation," Derek W.M. Barker, Noelle McAfee, and David W. McIvor "Three Models of Democratic Deliberation," Noelle McAfee "Rhetoric and Public Reasoning: An Aristotelian Understanding of Political Deliberation," Bernard Yack "Difference Democracy: The Consciousness-Raising Group Against the Gentlemen's Club," John S. Dryzek "Everyday Talk in the Deliberative System," Jane Mansbridge "De-centering Deliberative Democracy," Iris Marion Young "Sustaining Public Engagement: Embedded Deliberation in Local Communities," Elena Fagotto and Archon Fung "Constructive Politics as Public Work: Organizing the Literature," Harry C. Boyte

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