Literary notes about Agonistic (AI summary)
The term "agonistic" is often employed to evoke the sense of conflict or struggle, not merely in physical confrontations, but also in intellectual, emotional, and even civic contexts. In some works, it characterizes the slow, inexorable progression toward a tragic conclusion, as seen in the depiction of a long agonistic tragedy [1], while in others it describes competitive contests or chases that shape animal behavior and provoke human reflection [2]. Authors also mingle agonistic elements with the realm of emotion and passion, blending intense internal conflicts with the dynamics of courtship or ideological contests [3, 4]. Additionally, its application extends to the classic ideals of competition in education and civic life, highlighting the drama underlying communal growth [5].
- Next Year, it is calculated by everybody, Friedrich himself hardly excepted (in bad moments), must be the finis of this long agonistic tragedy.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Thomas Carlyle - Getting by capture is by contest or by chase: ( Agonistic or Thereutic .)
— from On the Philosophy of Discovery, Chapters Historical and Critical by William Whewell - “O agonistic throes,” tender, passionate yearnings, pinings, triumphant joys, sweet dreams—I took from you all.
— from The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman - Two conflicting agonistic elements seem to have contended in the man, sometimes pulling him different ways like wild horses.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - To the Ancients however the aim of the agonistic education was the welfare of the whole, of the civic society.
— from Early Greek Philosophy & Other EssaysCollected Works, Volume Two by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
