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Author: Morse Peckham
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1981-03-12
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780521281539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn attempt to understand the nineteenth-century's need to derive order from the individual rather than the objective world.
Author: Richard Ned Lebow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-10-30
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780521534857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs 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: Thomas Sowell
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2007-06-05
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0465004660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas 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: Wendy Farley
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780664250966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffering 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: Razi Abedi
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 242
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: M. Johnson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-05-24
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 023010911X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany have used the term 'tragic' to refer to African American religious and cultural experience. After a studied meditation on and articulation of the 'tragic vision,' Johnson argues that African American Christian Consciousness is an expression of the tragic and a tragic expression of the Christian Faith.
Author: Murray Krieger
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lucien Goldmann
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2016-07-12
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1784784060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new edition of a major philosophical work This remarkable text, first published in 1964, was a landmark of its era and remains, in the words of Michael Löwy, a work of “remarkable richness.” Drawing on Georg Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness, Lucien Goldmann applies the concept of “world visions” to flesh out the similarities between Pascal’s Pensées 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 Lukàcs. 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: Murray Krieger
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2019-12-01
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 142143119X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally 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: Richard Benson Sewall
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 178
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