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The passion of infinity : Kierkegaard, Aristotle and the rebirth of tragedy /
The Passion of Infinity generates a historical narrative surrounding the concept of the irrational as a threat which rational culture has made a series of attempts to understand and relieve. It begins with a reading of Sophocles' Oedipus as the paradigmatic figure of a reason that, having trans...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Walter de Gruyter,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Kierkegaard studies. Monograph series ;
19. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Passion of Infinity generates a historical narrative surrounding the concept of the irrational as a threat which rational culture has made a series of attempts to understand and relieve. It begins with a reading of Sophocles' Oedipus as the paradigmatic figure of a reason that, having transgressed its mortal limit, becomes catastrophically reversed. It then moves through Aristotle's ethics, psychology and theory of tragedy, which redefine reason's collapses in moral-psychological rather than religious terms. By changing the way in which the irrational is conceived, and the nature of its re. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 336 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-326) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110211177 3110211173 1283397250 9781283397254 |
| ISSN: | 1434-2952 ; |