Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
From the moderator of The New York Times philosophy blog The Stone, a book that argues that if we want to understand ourselves we have to go back to theater, to the stage of our livesTragedy presents a world of conflict and troubling emotion, a world where private and public lives collide and collapse. A world where morality is ambiguous and the powerful humiliate and destroy the powerless. A world where justice always seems to be on both sides of a conflict and sugarcoated words serve as cover for clandestine operations of violence. A world rather like our own.The ancient Greeks hold a mirror up to us, in which we see all the desolation and…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5247-4795-4
- EAN: 9781524747954
- Produktnummer: 28046273
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'198 KB
Über den Autor
SIMON CRITCHLEY is Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His many books include Very Little . . . Almost Nothing, The Book of Dead Philosophers, The Faith of the Faithless, and Memory Theater. He is the series moderator of The Stone, a philosophy column in The New York Times, to which he is a frequent contributor.
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