[PDF.79ws] The Philosophy of Tragedy: From Plato to Žižek

The Philosophy of Tragedy: From Plato to Žižek

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 | #861328 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  2013-06-28 |  2013-09-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x.67 x5.98l,.90 | File type: PDF | 294 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| How do we acknowledge the dark depths of life and yet affirm it nonetheless?|By A reader reader|Reading this book is like enrolling in a small seminar taught by Professor Young on the history of the philosophy of tragedy, a course in which he personally (and personably) guides the reader from A to Z -- literally, from Aristotle through Zizek (!) -- first sympathetically present| |"A thorough account of what philosophy has to say about tragedy, Julian Young's book is also a pleasure to read: it clarified many things I half knew, taught me much I hadn't known, and did so in an unfailingly lucid and entertaining style. It will be of endur

This book is an exhaustive survey of the philosophy of tragedy from antiquity to the present. From Aristotle to Žižek the focal question has been: why, in spite of its distressing content, do we value tragic drama? What is the nature of the "tragic effect"? Some philosophers point to a certain kind of pleasure that results from tragedy. Others, while not excluding pleasure, emphasize the knowledge we gain from tragedy - of psychology, ethics, freedom, or immortality. T...

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