agon

• “What you describe correspond to what Caillois called "agon," or directly competitive games.”

  SonyBay

• “The [Greek: "agon"] of the Greeks is also manifested in the Symposium in the shape of witty conversation.”

  We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8

• “In one potentially worrisome sign, however, bond yields from financially stressed governments rose agon.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Europe Stocks Rise

• “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.”

  Modality and Hamlet

• “For me "protagonist" and "antagonist" are very flexible terms, posting simply an agon, a point of view in that agon and a flip-side.”

  A Theory of Modes and Modalities

• “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.”

  The Guardian: The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom – review

• “Public debate and political competition (agon was the Greek word, which gives us our "agony") were the norm in democratic Athens.”

  The Guardian: Socrates ? a man for our times

• “John McCain is a senile, old fool who lost what little mental abilities he had a long time agon. howie”

  Levin takes on McCain over Afghanistan strategy

• “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:”

  Blackwater Fever: High Crimes and Hired Guns

• “It then became symptomatic in the Freudian agon of Bloom's or Hartman's anxieties about Romantic imagination.”

  Introduction

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