Journal of Philosophical Investigations (Oct 2019)

Our confrontation with tragedy

  • Simon Critchley

DOI
https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2019.35656.2393
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 28
pp. 59 – 74

Abstract

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This article attempts to illustrate our confrontation with tragedy in contemporary situation, That is why we are discussing this here in seven issues (Feeding the Ancients with Our Own Blood/ Philosophy’s Tragedy and the Dangerous Perhaps/Knowing and Not Knowing: How Oedipus Brings Down Fate/ Rage, Grief, and War/ Gorgias: Tragedy Is a Deception That Leaves the Deceived Wiser/Than the Nondeceived/Justice as Conflict (for Polytheism)/Tragedy as a Dialectical Mode of Experience). Finally, this article seeks to show that tragedy is a way of experience in our life today.Key words: tragedy, philosophy, Greek.

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