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The Tragedy of Fatherhood - King Laius and the Politics of Paternity in the West (Hardcover)
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The Tragedy of Fatherhood - King Laius and the Politics of Paternity in the West (Hardcover)
Series: New Directions in German Studies
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Winner of the 2014 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative
Literary Studies, awarded by the Modern Language Association.
Theories of power have always been intertwined with theories of
fatherhood: paternity is the oldest and most persistent metaphor of
benign, legitimate rule. The paternal trope gains its strength from
its integration of law, body, and affect-in the affirmative model
of fatherhood, the biological father, the legal father, and the
father who protects and nurtures his children are one and the same,
and in a complex system of mutual interdependence, the father of
the family is symbolically linked to the paternal gods of
monotheism and the paternal ruler of the monarchic state. If
tragedy is the violent eruption of a necessary conflict between
competing, legitimate claims, The Tragedy of Fatherhood argues that
fatherhood is an essentially tragic structure. Silke-Maria Weineck
traces both the tensions and various strategies to resolve them
through a series of readings of seminal literary and theoretical
texts in the Western cultural tradition. In doing so, she
demonstrates both the fragility and resilience of fatherhood as the
most important symbol of political power. A long history of
fatherhood in literature, philosophy, and political thought, The
Tragedy of Fatherhood weaves together figures as seemingly
disparate as Aristotle, Freud, Kafka, and Kleist, to produce a
stunning reappraisal of the nature of power in the Western
tradition.
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