Beginning with an illustrative passage from a renowned 19th century English novel, the essay traces the dirty hands tradition back to Machiavelli, though its present vogue is owed mostly to the writings of the distinguished American political theorist, Michael Walzer.
The dirty hands tradition dates back to Machiavelli, though its present currency is largely owed to the American political theorist Michael Walzer who gave it the title of dirty hands in an influential article "Political Action: the Problem of Dirty Hands", in which he coined the term "dirty hands" adapting it from Jean Paul Sartre's play of the same name (Walzer 1973).
The first thing to notice about this is that the identification of supreme emergency and dirty hands represents a dramatic shift from Walzer's view in his original article, and this shift reflects a significant ambiguity in the dirty hands tradition.
The cold, dead hand of tradition smothers new ways of running Westminster, making them unthinkable.
In particular, in Tagore's hands, women are complex, misunderstood characters who fall and fail under the heavy hand of tradition.
He was an emerging boxing star — a heavyweight with a crushing right hand — and tradition obliged him to talk like a bullying brute.
A snob and a racist (he regards the Apaches as "breech-clad savages"), Thursday represents the dead hand of tradition; only by getting him out of the way can the young couple be formed and the future take shape.
"Cats" are a popular delicacy in the rural corners of the southern and midwest states of America; historians record that southern American Indians used to dive down and catch the fish by hand, a tradition of fishing without hook or line taken up by rural settlers across the region.
Possible explanations are on the one hand that tradition prevailed and on the other that the specific construction of the task for the Delphi rounds had a decisive influence.
Then, everyone shook hands — the tradition before departing.
