Política e tragédia
AUTOR(ES)
Josélia da Silva Almeida
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2006
RESUMO
This works purpose is to collaborate with the field of research that involves tragical aesthetics and politics, having, thus, an interdisciplinary character. Its objective is to reveal the relationship between the tragical phenomenon and politics tragedy. To achieve its purpose, four tragedies of the tragical poetrys great authors are used and proofs of the connection between the political factor and the tragedys structure are presented. Divided in two parts, the study begins with the analysis of the concept of tragical, reviewing texts of some philosophers and aesthetes, like Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer. Concerning tragedy, Emil Staiger, Gerd Bornheim and other authors are considered. The various definitions are analyzed aiming a general concept of what is tragical. Then, the side of politics is discussed, treating power as a despotic structure internalized by man through its own psychological nature. Distinct formulations of power are exhibited, according to Freud, Marx, Clausewitz and Machiavelli. Each one works in its specific domain: psychoanalytic theory, historical theory, war theory and Estate theory. In the second part of the work, four tragedies that represent two great periods of tragical poetry, classical antiquity and modernity, are analyzed: Sófocles Oedipus the King, Shakespeares Richard II and Richard III and Büchners Dantons Death. The referred tragedies are characterized by the presence of the tragical phenomenon, showing, with bipolarity between conflicting elements, the appearance of their characters specific reality. From this analysis, the tragical phenomenon reveals the truth or non-truth of the respective field of appearance that is the politics. One can conclude that politics itself is the appearance that tragedy denounces, the field of appearance in which submission to power lies sealed. That is the connection between the tragical phenomenon and the politics.
ASSUNTO(S)
politica tragédia teoria literaria sófocles buchner shaekespeare
