Agon

What you describe correspond to what Caillois called "agon," or directly competitive games. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The [Greek: "agon"] of the Greeks is also manifested in the Symposium in the shape of witty conversation. ❋ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1872)

John McCain is a senile, old fool who lost what little mental abilities he had a long time agon. howie ❋ Unknown (2009)

For me "protagonist" and "antagonist" are very flexible terms, posting simply an agon, a point of view in that agon and a flip-side. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

Like you might read a Greek play and initially identify the basic agon and the key moment of anagnorisis, you might read an SF short story and initially identify the most obvious alethic quirks. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

If Harold Bloom is correct – and he's been quite sure of himself for almost 40 years – the placid scene of influence is in reality a brawl, with writers engaged in pugilistic agon against their aesthetic progenitors. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In one potentially worrisome sign, however, bond yields from financially stressed governments rose agon. ❋ Barbara Kollmeyer (2011)

Public debate and political competition (agon was the Greek word, which gives us our "agony") were the norm in democratic Athens. ❋ Bettany Hughes (2010)

Horton also notes that despite all the heartfelt noble promises of both candidate Obama and candidate Clinton during their glorious progressive agon for the presidential nomination in 2008, the mercenaries of Blackwater -- and other firms in the ever-expanding security goon community -- are still swelling their bellies at the government trough: ❋ Unknown (2010)

It then became symptomatic in the Freudian agon of Bloom's or Hartman's anxieties about Romantic imagination. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Drama, the Trauerspiel replaces the tragic agon, in which the hero is symbolically clenched in a silence proleptic of a language still to come. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But the 1815 version, by contrast, does indeed set in place a matrix of metapsychological concepts that are as constitutive for the discipline as Schopenhauer's agon of will and representation. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I've been following the Amazon/Macmillan agon with increasing frustration--how much worse must it be for authors whose books are in the middle of the mess? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Wen ai broekid mai leg tu bitts a fyu yeers agon Ai feldid daown teh raveen Ai had teh beri frytid tu goes daown teh stares awn kruchis, eben dough dey tottid mii inna hopspittil. ❋ Unknown (2009)

An aftur Percy, den it bees MAI tern, cos ai nawt afoardid Dr. TinyTeefs sins mai lasst jawb wif bennee fits foar yeers agon. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even for a super-team as ostensibly dedicated to fighting crime as the Avengers, an encounter like this isn't vigilantism; it's an agon--no more or less "fascist" than a boxing match or a basketball game, and providing fans with pleasures of essentially the same kind. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The second time I returned to the main Forums List page, it happened agon. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The agon, to be Adam in the morning is not just Freud versus Shakespeare or Dante versus Shakespeare - it could also possibly be Soseki versus Proust, but in that case, then, we say its Japan versus West and invoke macroscopic cultural dynamics that have no business being invoked actually. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So that other readers are not misled by Henry Sidgwick's Israel-bashing anti-Zionist distortions, I am posting here the quote from Benny Morris that I posted a few days agon on the still active thread "The Real Lesson of This History": ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sheesh, up here in MN where we elected a proud and true liberal, Wellstone, only 10 years ago and a another liberal, Dayton, only 6 years agon, we've got a scared rabbit candidate who has run a conservative campaign against a hapless Republican. ❋ Unknown (2009)