Eclipse of Action : Tragedy and Political Economy / / Richard Halpern
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| Autore: |
Halpern Richard
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| Titolo: |
Eclipse of Action : Tragedy and Political Economy / / Richard Halpern
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2017] |
| ©2017 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (322 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 809.2/512 |
| Soggetto topico: | Tragedy - History and criticism |
| Tragedy - Themes, motives | |
| Economics in literature | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | action |
| drama | |
| economics | |
| philosophy | |
| political economy | |
| politics | |
| society | |
| theater | |
| tragedy | |
| Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2017. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter one. "Thy Bloody and Invisible Hand" -- Chapter two. Greek Tragedy and the Raptor Economy -- Chapter three. Marlowe's Theater of Night -- Chapter four. Hamlet and the Work of Death -- Chapter five. The Same Old Grind -- Chapter six. Hegel, Marx, and the Novelization of Tragedy -- Chapter seven. Beckett's Tragic Pantry -- Postscript. After Beckett -- Notes -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | According to traditional accounts, the history of tragedy is itself tragic: following a miraculous birth in fifth-century Athens and a brilliant resurgence in the early modern period, tragic drama then falls into a marked decline. While disputing the notion that tragedy has died, this wide-ranging study argues that it faces an unprecedented challenge in modern times from an unexpected quarter: political economy. Since Aristotle, tragedy has been seen as uniquely exhibiting the importance of action for human happiness. Beginning with Adam Smith, however, political economy has claimed that the source of happiness is primarily production. Eclipse of Action examines the tense relations between action and production, doing and making, in playwrights from Aeschylus, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Milton to Beckett, Arthur Miller, and Sarah Kane. Richard Halpern places these figures in conversation with works by Aristotle, Smith, Hegel, Marx, Hannah Arendt, Georges Bataille, and others in order to trace the long history of the ways in which economic thought and tragic drama interact. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Eclipse of Action |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910164955203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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