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The Passion of Infinity - Kierkegaard, Aristotle and the Rebirth of Tragedy (Hardcover)
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The Passion of Infinity - Kierkegaard, Aristotle and the Rebirth of Tragedy (Hardcover)
Series: Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series
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The Passion of Infinity generates a historical narrative
surrounding the concept of the irrational as a threat which
rational culture has made a series of attempts to understand and
relieve. It begins with a reading of Sophocles' Oedipus as the
paradigmatic figure of a reason that, having transgressed its
mortal limit, becomes catastrophically reversed. It then moves
through Aristotle's ethics, psychology and theory of tragedy, which
redefine reason's collapses in moral-psychological rather than
religious terms. By changing the way in which the irrational is
conceived, and the nature of its relation to reason, Aristotle
eliminates the concept of an irrationality which reason cannot in
principle dissolve. The book culminates in an extensive reading of
Kierkegaard's pseudonyms, who, in a critical retrieval of both
Greek tragedy and Aristotle, prescribe their apparently
pathological age a paradoxical task: develop a finite form of
subjectivity willing to undergo an unthinkable thought - allow the
transcendence of a god to enter into the mind as well as the
marrow, to make a tragic appearance in which a limit to the
immanence of human reason can again be established.
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