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...
| Основен автор: | Greenspan, Daniel. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berlin ; New York :
Walter de Gruyter,
℗♭2008.
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| Серия: |
Kierkegaard studies. Monograph series ;
19. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=259695 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Passion of infinity. |
| Резюме: |
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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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (x, 336 pages). |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-326) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9783110211177 3110211173 1283397250 9781283397254 |
| ISSN: |
1434-2952 ; |