Robert Pirro
Biographic Data
| ID | 1205911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Pirro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Pirro |
| SIGNATURE | PIRRO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Southern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9908-9273 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Tennis Shoe Army and Leviathan
Differently than many other post-apocalyptic stories, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road offers scant evidence of either the influence of political events or ideas or of an authorial ambition to construct a vision of political order. To the extent that parallels can be drawn between the novel’s presentation of a tennis shoe army on the march, which resembles dream-like processions in other McCarthy novels, and Thomas Hobbes’ vision of an absolutist gover…
Wartime Resistance and Republican Political Agency in Primo Levi's Partisan Novel
Primo Levi is best known as a Holocaust survivor whose works are considered to be indispensable contributions to the literature of testimony about Nazi genocide. In trying to draw politically-relevant insights from Levi, readers have generally focused on his analysis of the extremes of human deprivation in his Holocaust writings. This article considers Levi more broadly as an analyst of the various forms of human agency and argues that his novel …
Aesthetic Legacies and Dashed Political Hopes
Until the 2004 release of his global warming movie, The Day After Tomorrow, German émigré and Hollywood A-list director Roland Emmerich had always presented himself as an apolitical entertainer. Film critics generally saw the content of his films as amounting to nothing more than the clever reworking of Hollywood clichés. As Emmerich became more consciously political in his moviemaking aims, he increasingly incorporated motifs from the work of ni…
Luftkrieg and alien invasion
West German native Roland Emmerich's Independence Day (1996) is considered the prototypical Hollywood blockbuster of a post-Cold War era of globalization in which new impulse was given to the diffusion of American cultural products across national borders. Michael Rogin's analysis of Independence Day as a resonant document of post-Cold War American anxieties and hopes illuminates the meaning of the film for American audiences but fails to note th…
Tragedy, Theodicy and 9/11
Two general sorts of responses to the suffering caused by the 9/11 attacks are distinguishable in the statements of public officials, journalists, and citizens: one manifests a tragic sensibility, another takes the form of theodicy. Each response entails a distinctive set of expectations about the nature of political agency and solidarity in a democracy. With its claim of access to a transcendental form of truth, theodicy promises a robust sense …
Tragedy, Surrogation and the Significance of African-American Culture in Postunification Germany
In the aftermath of unification, the loss of job security and other forms of social support under East Germany's comprehensive (if increasingly inefficient and corrupt) system of welfare state paternalism, coupled with a newfound dependence on West German financial largesse, not only disoriented former East Germans, but also led to pressures on them to repress their past experiences of solidarity and distinctiveness. Schultze Gets the Blues, the …
Remedying Defective or Deficient Political Agency
American culture has often been seen, particularly from the standpoint of Europe, as lacking a sense of the tragic. On the European view, this tragic deficit is the reason that Americans are more likely to act intemperately or with hubris. A critique of American culture for its lack of conscious engagement with tragedy figures prominently in the work of Cornel West. He argues that a broader American receptiveness to the tragedies of American hist…
Situating a German Self in Democratic Community
In times of political or social crisis, issues of identity and affiliationtend to become more salient. In response to the threatened or actualdisruption of the routines of material provision, social order, andideological legitimation, definitions of self and community that hadformerly been considered authoritative come under more frequentand more extensive questioning. Responses to this condition ofuncertainty and doubt about identity and affilia…
Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Tragedy
Václav Havel and the Political Uses of Tragedy
Au-dela de l'influence de la philosophie de Patocka et des textes de Heidegger, l'A. etudie les references a la tragedie grecque, a la catharsis et au theâtre dans la reflexion de V. Havel sur le lien entre action, theorie et politique, d'une part, et dans la problematique de l'identite individuelle et collective de l'identite, d'autre part
Books in Review
Liberalism and Modern Society
Václav Havel and the Political Uses of Tragedy
Au-dela de l'influence de la philosophie de Patocka et des textes de Heidegger, l'A. etudie les references a la tragedie grecque, a la catharsis et au theâtre dans la reflexion de V. Havel sur le lien entre action, theorie et politique, d'une part, et dans la problematique de l'identite individuelle et collective de l'identite, d'autre part
Remedying Defective or Deficient Political Agency
American culture has often been seen, particularly from the standpoint of Europe, as lacking a sense of the tragic. On the European view, this tragic deficit is the reason that Americans are more likely to act intemperately or with hubris. A critique of American culture for its lack of conscious engagement with tragedy figures prominently in the work of Cornel West. He argues that a broader American receptiveness to the tragedies of American hist…
The Tennis Shoe Army and Leviathan
Differently than many other post-apocalyptic stories, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road offers scant evidence of either the influence of political events or ideas or of an authorial ambition to construct a vision of political order. To the extent that parallels can be drawn between the novel’s presentation of a tennis shoe army on the march, which resembles dream-like processions in other McCarthy novels, and Thomas Hobbes’ vision of an absolutist gover…
Aesthetic Legacies and Dashed Political Hopes
Until the 2004 release of his global warming movie, The Day After Tomorrow, German émigré and Hollywood A-list director Roland Emmerich had always presented himself as an apolitical entertainer. Film critics generally saw the content of his films as amounting to nothing more than the clever reworking of Hollywood clichés. As Emmerich became more consciously political in his moviemaking aims, he increasingly incorporated motifs from the work of ni…
Tragedy, Theodicy and 9/11
Two general sorts of responses to the suffering caused by the 9/11 attacks are distinguishable in the statements of public officials, journalists, and citizens: one manifests a tragic sensibility, another takes the form of theodicy. Each response entails a distinctive set of expectations about the nature of political agency and solidarity in a democracy. With its claim of access to a transcendental form of truth, theodicy promises a robust sense …
Liberalism and Modern Society
Books in Review
Václav Havel and the Political Uses of Tragedy
Au-dela de l'influence de la philosophie de Patocka et des textes de Heidegger, l'A. etudie les references a la tragedie grecque, a la catharsis et au theâtre dans la reflexion de V. Havel sur le lien entre action, theorie et politique, d'une part, et dans la problematique de l'identite individuelle et collective de l'identite, d'autre part
Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Tragedy
Remedying Defective or Deficient Political Agency
American culture has often been seen, particularly from the standpoint of Europe, as lacking a sense of the tragic. On the European view, this tragic deficit is the reason that Americans are more likely to act intemperately or with hubris. A critique of American culture for its lack of conscious engagement with tragedy figures prominently in the work of Cornel West. He argues that a broader American receptiveness to the tragedies of American hist…
Situating a German Self in Democratic Community
In times of political or social crisis, issues of identity and affiliationtend to become more salient. In response to the threatened or actualdisruption of the routines of material provision, social order, andideological legitimation, definitions of self and community that hadformerly been considered authoritative come under more frequentand more extensive questioning. Responses to this condition ofuncertainty and doubt about identity and affilia…
Tragedy, Surrogation and the Significance of African-American Culture in Postunification Germany
In the aftermath of unification, the loss of job security and other forms of social support under East Germany's comprehensive (if increasingly inefficient and corrupt) system of welfare state paternalism, coupled with a newfound dependence on West German financial largesse, not only disoriented former East Germans, but also led to pressures on them to repress their past experiences of solidarity and distinctiveness. Schultze Gets the Blues, the …
Tragedy, Theodicy and 9/11
Two general sorts of responses to the suffering caused by the 9/11 attacks are distinguishable in the statements of public officials, journalists, and citizens: one manifests a tragic sensibility, another takes the form of theodicy. Each response entails a distinctive set of expectations about the nature of political agency and solidarity in a democracy. With its claim of access to a transcendental form of truth, theodicy promises a robust sense …
Luftkrieg and alien invasion
West German native Roland Emmerich's Independence Day (1996) is considered the prototypical Hollywood blockbuster of a post-Cold War era of globalization in which new impulse was given to the diffusion of American cultural products across national borders. Michael Rogin's analysis of Independence Day as a resonant document of post-Cold War American anxieties and hopes illuminates the meaning of the film for American audiences but fails to note th…
Aesthetic Legacies and Dashed Political Hopes
Until the 2004 release of his global warming movie, The Day After Tomorrow, German émigré and Hollywood A-list director Roland Emmerich had always presented himself as an apolitical entertainer. Film critics generally saw the content of his films as amounting to nothing more than the clever reworking of Hollywood clichés. As Emmerich became more consciously political in his moviemaking aims, he increasingly incorporated motifs from the work of ni…
Wartime Resistance and Republican Political Agency in Primo Levi's Partisan Novel
Primo Levi is best known as a Holocaust survivor whose works are considered to be indispensable contributions to the literature of testimony about Nazi genocide. In trying to draw politically-relevant insights from Levi, readers have generally focused on his analysis of the extremes of human deprivation in his Holocaust writings. This article considers Levi more broadly as an analyst of the various forms of human agency and argues that his novel …
The Tennis Shoe Army and Leviathan
Differently than many other post-apocalyptic stories, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road offers scant evidence of either the influence of political events or ideas or of an authorial ambition to construct a vision of political order. To the extent that parallels can be drawn between the novel’s presentation of a tennis shoe army on the march, which resembles dream-like processions in other McCarthy novels, and Thomas Hobbes’ vision of an absolutist gover…
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