Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Conflict, Reconciliation, and Citizenship 1. Listening to Haemon: Citizenship in the Antigone 2. Pity, Fear, and Citizenship: The Politics of Aristotle's Poetics 3. Hegel and the Politics of Reconciliation 4. Redescription as Reconciliation: Richard Rorty 5. John Rawls and Hegelian Political Philosophy 6. Judith Butler's Postmodern Antigone Conclusion: Tragedy, Citizenship, and the Human Condition Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Derek W. M. Barker is a program officer at the Kettering Foundation.