Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

by Simon Critchley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525564640
• ISBN13: 9780525564645
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 8.0"