02388nam 2200445 450 991015175070332120230808200307.01-78023-622-0(CKB)3710000000952099(MiAaPQ)EBC4742055(EXLCZ)99371000000095209920161124h20162016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierA philosophy of tragedy /Christopher HamiltonLondon, England :Reaktion Books,2016.©20161 online resource (176 pages)1-78023-589-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: philosophy and tragedy: a personal view -- Ontology -- Pollution -- Suffering -- Virtue, happiness and morality -- Among the ruins -- Some final thoughts."A Philosophy of Tragedy explores the tragic condition of man in modernity. Nietzsche knew it, as have countless characters in literature, and the modern age places us squarely before it: the sheer contingency and instability of our existence, our homelssness, our unredeemed suffering, our fractured relation to morality. Christopher Hamilton draws as much on literature, including the tragic theatre, as on philosophy to offer a stirring account of our tragic state. In doing so he explores the nature of philosophy itself, the ways it has been understood and its relationship to humanity. The book ranges from the debate over the 'death of tragedy' to a critique of modern virtue ethics, offers a new interpretation of the evil of Auschwitz and explores the work of thinkers who have seen our tragic being as inherently inconsolable. A Philosophy of Tragedy shows how tragedy has been and continues to be a crucial part of the modern human experience - one from which we should not avert our eyes."--back cover.Tragic, TheTragedyPhilosophySufferingPhilosophyTragic, The.TragedyPhilosophy.SufferingPhilosophy.809.2512Hamilton Christopher1052158MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910151750703321A philosophy of tragedy2787979UNINA