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This book explores the notion of 'the tragic' from the perspective of social science. Tracing the history of tragedy and arguing for the relevance of the concept for social science today, it develops the idea of 'tragic social science' as a useful analytic to be applied to a range of modern topics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Why tragedy? Why now?
Part I
- Beyond intentionality: the will, agency, and subjectivity in ancient and classical tragedy
- The tragic individual: catharsis, the hero, and the flaw in Aristotle and beyond
- Modern tragedy and its subjects: Shakespeare, Freud, and post-Christian metaphysics
Part II
- The theodicy of suffering: abjection under capitalism
- From hero to celebrity: Fame, familiarity, and redemption
- Tragedy of the commons: genre and collective agency amidst climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic
- Toward a tragic social science: responsibility, critique, and thinking diffractively
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Sam Han is Lecturer in Sociology at Brunel University, London. He is the author of
(Inter)Facing Death: Life in Global Uncertainty,
Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the Sacred in a Post-Secular Modernity and
Digital Culture and Religion in Asia (with Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir), and other works.
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This book explores the notion of ‘the tragic’ from the perspective of social science. Tracing the history of tragedy and arguing for the relevance of the concept for social science today, it develops the idea of ‘tragic social science’ as a useful analytic to be applied to a range of modern topics.
