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The Paradox of Tragedy (Hardcover)
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The Paradox of Tragedy (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1960, The Paradox of Tragedy raises the
fundamental question, why do we enjoy tragic drama with its themes
of death and disaster? Aristotle's theory of catharsis is still
widely accepted as a satisfactory explanation of this paradox. In
the first of its two connected essays, D.D. Raphael argues that
Aristotle's account of tragic emotions is distorted by a faulty
psychology and fails to solve the problem. Raphael offers instead a
new theory of Tragedy, as a conflict between two forms of the
sublime, in which the sublimity of human heroism is exalted above
the sublimity of overwhelming power. The spirit of the Tragedy is
liable to conflict with doctrines of Biblical theology, and the
difficulties of fusing the two are explored with illustrations from
Greek, Biblical, English, and French literature. The second essay
discusses the wider topic of philosophical drama, considering in
what sense tragic and other forms of serious drama may be called
philosophical, and also pointing out the dramatic shape of much of
Plato's philosophy. In this discussion, the question of religious
Tragedy reappears in a different perspective. This book will be an
essential read for scholars and researchers of philosophy in
general and political philosophy in particular.
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