ID | 101849 |
Title Proper | Undazzled by the ideal? |
Other Title Information | Tully's politics and humanism in tragic perspective |
Language | ENG |
Author | Honig, Bonnie |
Publication | 2011. |
Summary / Abstract (Note) | "If we wish to do justice to the conflicts that surround us and lead to one tragedy after another, we can do no better than to keep the example of Antigone constantly in mind," says James Tully in Strange Multiplicity. 2 But it is not Sophocles' lamenting title character that draws Tully, nor is it the playwright's tragic message. It is Haemon, the "exemplary citizen of the intercultural common ground" (23), who sees the justice of Antigone's claim and pleads with his father, Creon, for restraint. 3 Sophocles' play is unmentioned in the two volumes of Public Philosophy in a New Key but, like Haemon, Tully here positions himself between the worlds of dissidence and governance, speaking to the powerful in soft reasonable tones on behalf of subaltern subjects, and arguing that we can break out of seemingly tragic impasses if we take instruction from the "rough ground" of politics and the pacific ways of nature |
`In' analytical Note | Political Theory Vol. 39, No. 1; Feb 2011: p.138-144 |
Journal Source | Political Theory Vol. 39, No. 1; Feb 2011: p.138-144 |
Key Words | Humanism ; Politics ; Tully's Politics ; James Tully ; Tully’s Politics |