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Reason's grief : an essay on tragedy and value /
In Reason's Grief, George Harris takes W.B. Yeats's comment that we begin to live only when we have conceived life as tragedy as a call for a tragic ethics, something the modern West has yet to produce. He argues that we must turn away from religious understandings of tragedy and the human...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In Reason's Grief, George Harris takes W.B. Yeats's comment that we begin to live only when we have conceived life as tragedy as a call for a tragic ethics, something the modern West has yet to produce. He argues that we must turn away from religious understandings of tragedy and the human condition and realize that our species will occupy a very brief period of history, at some point to disappear without a trace. We must accept an ethical perspective that avoids pernicious fantasies about ultimate redemption but that sees tragic loss as a permanent and pervasive aspect of our daily lives, yet finds a way to think, feel, and act with both passion and hope. Reason's Grief takes us back through the history of our thinking about value to find our way. The call is for nothing less than a paradigm shift for understanding both tragedy and ethics. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 300 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-296) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521863287 9780521863285 0511225873 9780511225871 9780511226441 0511226446 9780511224591 0511224591 9780511498930 0511498934 1280541466 9781280541469 1107168929 9781107168923 0511317271 9780511317279 0511225261 9780511225260 9781107407244 1107407249 |