Auf Lager:
2
Buch (Softcover): Sachbuch
I Want to Die, I Hate My Life
Three Essays on Tragedy and One on Beckett
Produkt bewerten
Verlag:
Eris Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: D96YQE9
EAN: 9781916809710
Auf Lager:
2
Zustellung: Di, 16.06.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 36.25
Beschreibung
"There is a common fallacy that is oddly and sadly even more widespread amongst non-philosophers than philosophers, that art is somehow explained by philosophy. It is not. " The philosopher Simon Critchley has long been drawn to the distinctive questions raised by tragedy. In this major new work, conceived as a sequel to his Tragedy, the Greeks and Us. (2019), he describes the power of tragic drama as deriving from its depictions of 'stuckness': of the inescapable situation of being oneself. In readings of Jean Racine, Henrik Ibsen, and Samuel Beckett, Critchley offers an exceptionally perceptive account of how tragedy dramatises this irreducibly absurd condition. I Want to Die, I Hate My Life. is at once a searching philosophical engagement with tragedy and a bracing argument against the widespread tendency to reduce literary texts to mere illustrations of philosophical ideas. Critchley's exposition of the ambiguities that lie at the heart of tragic drama-of tragedy's resistance to the kind of rational explanations that philosophers have sought to impose upon it-doesn't just enhance our understanding of literature; it also points towards a wiser, more subtle, and more dynamic way of doing philosophy.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Simon Critchley
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2025
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 160