dc.contributor.author |
Curtis, Neal |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2012-03-25T22:32:21Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2007 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Philosophy and Social Criticism 33(7):860-879 2007 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0191-4537 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/15255 |
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dc.description.abstract |
This article considers the war against terror in relation to classical tragedy. It uses Heidegger’s analysis of Sophocles’s play Antigone to argue that human beings are essentially ‘homeless’ and yet our destiny lies in the continual attempt to overcome this homelessness by establishing foundational principles that might bring our journeying to an end. The tragedy of this situation is that the search for foundations and a search for a home invariably bring differing worlds in conflict with each other as their paths to truth collide. Lucien Goldmann’s analysis of the tragedy of refusal is also considered in relation to a non-foundational politics that may permit us not only to endure, but actually to affirm our homelessness as an attempt to resist the terror and anabolic militarism that marks the current age. |
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dc.publisher |
Sage Publications Ltd. |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Philosophy and Social Criticism |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
Details obtained from http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0191-4537/ |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.title |
Tragedy and politics |
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dc.type |
Journal Article |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.1177/0191453707081683 |
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pubs.issue |
7 |
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pubs.begin-page |
860 |
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pubs.volume |
33 |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: Sage Publications Ltd. |
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pubs.end-page |
879 |
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pubs.publication-status |
Published |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Article |
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pubs.elements-id |
294941 |
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pubs.org-id |
Arts |
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pubs.org-id |
Social Sciences |
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pubs.org-id |
Media and Communication |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2012-02-15 |
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