The Tragic Idea
Today we attribute a tragic quality to many things - works, experiences, values, events - but we forget how modern this idea is. This book traces the rise of the tragic idea from early Romanticism to late Modernism. Focusing on succinct, major statements, it maps one of the most absorbing philosophical conversations in modernity: the debate about the tragic meaning of life. This conversation has crossed geographical, linguistic, ideological and religious borders to bring thinkers together in an inquiry into the inner contradictions of liberty. While originally the tragic idea stood for the conflict of freedom and necessity, it gradually absor…
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Weitere Autoren: Cartledge, Paul (Hrsg.) / Braund, Susanna (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7156-3558-2
- EAN: 9780715635582
- Produktnummer: 2271989
- Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 158 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.4 cm x D1.2 cm 249 g
- Gewicht: 249
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Vassilis Lambropoulos is C.P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek in Classical Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan.
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