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Reason's grief : = an essay on tragedy and value /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reason's grief :/ George W. Harris.
Reminder of title:	an essay on tragedy and value /
Author:	Harris, George W.,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 300 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Tragic, The. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511498930
ISBN:	9780511498930 (ebook)

Reason's grief : = an essay on tragedy and value /
Harris, George W.,

Reason's grief :an essay on tragedy and value /George W. Harris. - 1 online resource (x, 300 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

An aesthetic prelude -- The problem of tragedy -- The dubious ubiquity of reason -- Nihilism -- Pessimism -- Monism : an epitaph -- Moralism and the inconstancy of value -- Moralism and the impurity of value -- Best life pluralism and reason's regret -- Tragic pluralism and reason's grief -- Postscript on the future : the idea of progress and the avoidance of despair.

Reason's Grief takes W. B. Yeats's comment that we begin to live only when we have conceived life as tragedy as a call for a tragic ethics, something the modern West has yet to produce. Harris argues that we must turn away from religious understandings of tragedy and the human condition and realize that our species will occupy a very brief period of history, at some point to disappear without a trace. We must accept an ethical perspective that avoids pernicious fantasies about ultimate redemption but that sees tragic loss as a permanent and pervasive aspect of our daily lives, yet finds a way to think, feel and act with both passion and hope. Reason's Grief takes us back through the history of our thinking about value to find our way. The call is for nothing less than a paradigm shift for understanding both tragedy and ethics.

ISBN: 9780511498930 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

571604
Tragic, The.

LC Class. No.: BH301.T7 / H37 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 128

Reason's grief : = an essay on tragedy and value /
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