The tragic turn in the re-imagination of publics

Animus 14:43-66 (2010)
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Abstract

In the past two decades, public sociologists have sought to revive what C. Wright Mills called a 'democratic society of publics'. The publics that such sociologists promote are intellectual ones that resemble Socratic dialogues in which people search for the good order. Nietzsche criticizes such publics for their plebeian character and introduces an alternative type of publics: aesthetic publics. Rather than Socratic dialogues, the art of tragedy is the model of such publics. In this article it is argued that the art of tragedy sheds a different light on the concept of publics and can only enrich the sociological discipline

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