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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Tragedy of Fatherhood
    sub title: King Laius and the Politics of Paternity in the West
  name:
    name part: Weineck, Silke-Maria
    name part: 1963-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 208 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "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"--
  abstract: "The long history of fatherhood, and its entanglements with ideas of power, in Western literature, philosophy, history, and political theory"--
  table of contents: Introduction: The Silence of the Father -- Section I. Freud's Fatherhood I: 1. Revenant -- Section II. The Tragic Father: 2. The Laius Complex; 3. Oedipus Patêr; 4. "I must do what I've been told": Abraham and the conditions of unconditional paternity -- Section III. The Political Father: 5. Aristotle and the body of the father; 6. Paternity and the perfect city; 7. Hobbes and the end of paternal triad -- Section IV. The Rise of the Son: 8. Lessing: paternal abdication; 9. Kleist and the resurrections of the father -- Section V. Freud's Fatherhood II: 10. The Tschnas, of the path of the fatherless society -- Conclusion: Dead children.
  note: Silke-Maria Weineck.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-204) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Fatherhood in literature
  subject:
    topic: Fatherhood
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Paternity
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Europe / Germany
  subject:
    topic: Literatur
  subject:
    topic: Vater
  subject:
    geographic: Westliche Welt
  classification: PN56.5.F38 W45 2014
  classification: 809/.9335251
  classification: LIT006000 LIT004170 HIS014000
  related item:
    title info:
      title: New directions in German studies ; v. 9
  identifier: 9781628928181 (hardback)
  identifier: 1628928182 (hardback)
  identifier: 9781628927894 (paperback)
  identifier: 1628927895 (paperback)
  identifier: 9781628920789 (ePub)
  identifier: 1628920785 (ePub)
  identifier: 9781628928952 (ePDF)
  identifier: 1628928956 (ePDF)
  identifier: 2014007659
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140506
    record change date: 20170928110738.0
    record identifier: in00003611150
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng