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I am so sympathetic with the enterprise of invigorating classical realism with the study of Greek tragedy and exploring what a tragic sensibility can contribute to international politics generally that my criticisms of the previous chapters may seem perverse. Perverse because I intend to make the appropriation of tragedy for the study of international politics which I endorse more rather than less problematic. But I do so in the name of Greek tragedy and ultimately a more challenging appropriation of it.
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J. Lear (1999) Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).
J. -P. Vernant and P. Vidal-Naquet (1981) Tragedy and Myth in Ancient Greece, quoted in B. Williams (1993) Shame and Necessity ( Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press ), p. 19.
B. Knox (1970) Oedipus at Thebes ( New York: W. W. Norton).
But see Froma Zeitlin’s critique in F. Zeitlin (1986) ‘Thebes: Theater of Self and Society in Athenian Drama’, in J. P. Euben (ed.) Greek Tragedy and Political Theory ( Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press ), pp. 101–41.
See H. Arendt (1998) The Human Condition ( Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press ), Section V.
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Euben, J.P. (2012). The Tragedy of Tragedy. In: Erskine, T., Lebow, R.N. (eds) Tragedy and International Relations. Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230390331_7
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