The Tragedy of Fatherhood

Name: The Tragedy of Fatherhood
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By Silke-Maria Weineck

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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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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 224
Release Date:: 2014-08-28
Publication Date:: 2014-08-28
Publisher:: Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1628928182
ISBN13:: 9781628928181
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 419 g
Height:: 14.5 cm
Width:: 22.2 cm
Thickness:: 1.6 cm

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