Abstract
In 1909, Georg Simmel opens his essay entitled ‘Bridge and Door’ in the following way, ‘[t]he image of external things possesses for us the ambiguous dimension that in external nature everything can be considered to be connected, but also as separated’ (Simmel, 1997: 170). Ambivalence, meaning occupying two spaces at one and the same time, provides a stabilising social paradigm, and not a provisional condition of uncertainty. This paper discusses a socio-political drama in Ireland which makes active use of an ambivalent rhetoric, specifically linking notions of transcending boundaries.
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Cassidy, Tanya M.
(2000)
"Race to the Park: Simmel, The Stranger and The State,"
Irish Communication Review:
Vol. 8:
Iss.
1, Article 2.
doi:10.21427/D75X4K
Available at:
https://arrow.tudublin.ie/icr/vol8/iss1/2
DOI
10.21427/D75X4K