Author : Wendy Farley
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,98 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664250966
Offering an alternative to classic Christian theodicies (justification of God's goodness and omnipotence in view of the existence of evil), Wendy Farley interprets the problem of evil and suffering within a tragic context, advocating compassion to describe the power of God in the struggle against evil.
Author : Richard Ned Lebow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521534857
Is it possible to preserve national security through ethical policies? Richard Ned Lebow seeks to show that ethics are actually essential to the national interest. Recapturing the wisdom of classical realism through a close reading of the texts of Thucydides, Clausewitz and Hans Morgenthau, Lebow argues that, unlike many modern realists, classic realists saw close links between domestic and international politics, and between interests and ethics. Lebow uses this analysis to offer a powerful critique of post-Cold War American foreign policy. He also develops an ontological foundation for ethics and makes the case for an alternate ontology for social science based on Greek tragedy s understanding of life and politics. This is a topical and accessible book, written by a leading scholar in the field.
Author : Morse Peckham
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 1981-03-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521281539
An attempt to understand the nineteenth-century's need to derive order from the individual rather than the objective world.
Author : Lucien Goldmann
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1784784052
This remarkable text, first published in 1964, was a landmark of its era and remains, in the words of Michael Lwy, a work of "remarkable richness." Drawing on Georg Lukcs' History and Class Consciousness, Lucien Goldmann applies the concept of "world visions" to flesh out the similarities between Pascal's Penses and Kant's critical philosophy, contrasting them with the rationalism of Descartes and the empiricism of Hume. For Goldmann, a leading exponent of the most fruitful method of applying Marxist ideas to literary and philosophical problems, the "tragic vision" marked an important phase in the development of European thought, as it moved from rationalism and empiricism to the dialectical philosophy of Hegel, Marx and Lukcs. Here he offers a general approach to the problems of philosophy, of literary criticism, and of the relationship between thought and action in human society.
Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2007-06-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0465004660
Thomas Sowell’s “extraordinary” explication of the competing visions of human nature lie at the heart of our political conflicts (New York Times) Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes this pattern. He describes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the "constrained" vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and selfish, and the "unconstrained" vision, in which human nature is malleable and perfectible. A Conflict of Visions offers a convincing case that ethical and policy disputes circle around the disparity between both outlooks.
Author : Richard Benson Sewall
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 12,3 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Rachel A. Walsh
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,23 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442649267
Ugo Foscolo's Tragic Vision in Italy and England examines an underexplored aspect of Foscolo's literary career: his tragic plays and critical essays on that genre.
Author : Murray Krieger
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 38,4 MB
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 142143119X
Originally published in 1973. Literary critics who have studied tragedy and the tragic vision failed, in Murray Krieger's estimation, to define exactly what they saw as the tragic vision in general terms. An aim of his book is to create a tentative definition of tragic and to flesh out what the author sees as the definition most illuminating of modern literature and the modern mind. In order to do this, Krieger distinguishes between what he sees as the "tragic vision" and "tragedy"—tragedy, from his perspective, is an object's literary form, whereas tragic vision refers to a subject's psychology, the subject's view and version of reality. In light of the shriveling of the tragic concept in the modern world and the reduction of a total view to the psychology of the protagonist, Krieger contends that the protagonist in a tragedy is now more appropriately designated a "tragic visionary" than a "tragic hero."
Author : Maria Nicolai Paynter
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 38,25 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802007056
Throughout his life, the internationally known novelist, short story writer, and journalist, Ignazio Silone (1900-1978) struggled indomitably for social justice. In this book, Maria Nicolai Paynter discusses the many controversial issues surrounding Silone and his writing, analysing in detail his intellectual and political convictions and assesses the artistic achievement and stylistic development in his works. Paynter argues that a profound authenticity is at the core of Silone's writing and that his tragic vision emanates from a concepte of heroism based not on pride and self-serving defiance but rather on moral courage and integrity. Northrop Frye's archetypal criticism and his concept of ironic myth provide the theoretical framework through which Paynter guides the reader to an understanding of Silone's particular brand of realism and his unique message. Ignazio Silone: Beyond the Tragic Visionis a new, expanded version in English of an earlier Italian-language book which won the Premio Internazionale Letterario Ignazio Silone. It is the first comprehensive book in English on Silone's life, his writings, and their critical reception.
Author : W. L. Humphreys
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 2003-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1592441777
In this discerning study of the relationship of the tragic vision to the Hebrew, W. Lee Humphreys suggests various ways in which Israel confronted the power of the tragic vision at certain points in its tradition. Humphreys demonstrates how Òtragedy,Ó the literary genre, and Òthe tragic visionÓ maintain a delicate but vital balance between fate and law. In conclusion, he contends that the tragic vision finds fullest expression at points of radical dislocation in human history. At these times, the essential questions of existence are reopened, rehearsed, and relived as the tragic vision questions all previous answers and dogmatic claims to the meaning of life.
