The Tragic Mind
Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023]
Format: Book
Description: xiv, 135 pages ; 23 cm
"A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Preface -- The battle of good against good -- The age of Dionysus -- Order: the ultimate necessity -- Order and necessity must be obeyed, even when they are unjust -- Order creates perpetual conflict between loyalty to the family and loyalty to the state -- The state becomes the wellspring of ambition -- Ambition and the struggle against tyranny and injustice -- War and its horrors -- Because war is ever-present, the burden of power is overwhelming -- Imperial wars are decided by fate -- From the suffering of heroes comes the essence of tragedy -- The truth is possessed only by the old and the blind -- Because different goods struggle against each other, we have consciences -- Time is ungrateful -- Epilogue.
Subjects:
Political science -- Philosophy.
Power (Social sciences) -- History.
International relations -- History.
Political science -- Philosophy.
Power (Social sciences) -- History.
International relations -- History.
ISBN:
0300263864
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Includes bibliographical references and index.