Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
ISBN-13:
9780525564645
ISBN-10:
0525564640
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Simon Critchley
Publication date:
2020
Publisher:
Vintage
Format:
Paperback
336 pages
Category:
Greece
,
Ancient Civilizations History
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ISBN-13:
9780525564645
ISBN-10:
0525564640
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Simon Critchley
Publication date:
2020
Publisher:
Vintage
Format:
Paperback
336 pages
Category:
Greece
,
Ancient Civilizations History
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Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (ISBN-13: 9780525564645 and ISBN-10: 0525564640), written by authors
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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 lives
Tragedy 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 delusion of our lives but also the terrifying beauty and intensity of existence. This is not a time for consolation prizes and the fatuous banalities of the self-help industry and pop philosophy.
Tragedy allows us to glimpse, in its harsh and unforgiving glare, the burning core of our aliveness. If we give ourselves the chance to look at tragedy, we might see further and more clearly.
Tragedy 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 delusion of our lives but also the terrifying beauty and intensity of existence. This is not a time for consolation prizes and the fatuous banalities of the self-help industry and pop philosophy.
Tragedy allows us to glimpse, in its harsh and unforgiving glare, the burning core of our aliveness. If we give ourselves the chance to look at tragedy, we might see further and more clearly.
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