1st Edition
The Concept of Tragedy Its Importance for the Social Sciences in Unsettled Times
By Sam Han
Copyright 2023
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
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Events in the world today appear to be increasingly uncontrollable and unknowable. Climate change, refugee crises, and global pandemics seem to demonstrate the limits of human reason, science, and technology. In light of this, the terms "tragedy" and "tragic" have come into greater use. What does the register of the tragic do? What does its deployment in the contemporary context and other times... Read more
Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Why tragedy? Why now?
- Beyond intentionality: the will, agency, and subjectivity in ancient and classical tragedy
- The tragic individual: catharsis, the hero, and the flaw in Aristotle and beyond
- Modern tragedy and its subjects: Shakespeare, Freud, and post-Christian metaphysics
- The theodicy of suffering: abjection under capitalism
- From hero to celebrity: Fame, familiarity, and redemption
- Tragedy of the commons: genre and collective agency amidst climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic
- Toward a tragic social science: responsibility, critique, and thinking diffractively
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Part II
Biography
Sam Han is Lecturer in Sociology at Brunel University, London. He is the author of (Inter)Facing Death: Life in Global Uncertainty, Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the Sacred in a Post-Secular Modernity and Digital Culture and Religion in Asia (with Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir), and other works.
