The Just and the Lively: The Literary Criticism of John Dryden

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Manchester University Press, 2002 - 342 pages
Recognition is often considered a means to de-escalate conflicts and promote peaceful social interactions. This volume explores the forms that social recognition and its withholding may take in asymmetric armed conflicts, examining the risks and opportunities that arise when local, state, and transnational actors recognise, misrecognise, or deny recognition of armed non-state actors.By studying key asymmetric conflicts through the prism of recognition, it offers an innovative perspective on the interactions between armed non-state actors and state actors. In what contexts does granting recognition to armed non-state actors foster conflict transformation? What happens when governments withhold recognition or label armed non-state actors in ways they perceive as misrecognition? The authors examine the ambivalence of recognition processes in violent conflicts and their sometimes-unintended consequences. The volume shows that, while non-recognition prevents conflict transformation, the recognition of armed non-state actors may produce counterproductive precedents and new modes of exclusion in intra-state and transnational politics.
 

Contents

ONE The ends of criticism
9
Two From theory to practice 1664
22
THREE A French play 16651668
43
FOUR The new imbalance 16671668
62
SEVEN The heroic play 1672
118
EIGHT The heroic play concluded
131
NINE Sweeping of the stakes 1672
146
TEN The classical moment 16731679
157
ELEVEN The great tradition 16801700
172
FIFTEEN Evaluations
241
Notes
257
Bibliography
305
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