1st Edition
Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature A Philosophical Perspective
By Richard Gaskin
Copyright 2018
422 Pages
by
Routledge
422 Pages
by
Routledge
422 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering. Moral redress involves the balancing of a protagonist’s suffering with guilt (and vice versa): Gaskin contends that, to a much greater... Read more
Introduction
Part I: Tragedy and Moral Redress
1. Oedipus, Hamartia, Freedom, and the Supernatural
2. Antigone’s Holy Crime
3. From Cognitive Failure to No-Fault Tragedy
Part II: Tragedy and Linguistic Redress
4. Theoretical Considerations
5. Can Suffering Be Expressed in Words?
6. Tragedy and Linguistic Idealism
Biography
Richard Gaskin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, UK. He is the author of seven books including Horace and Housman (2013), Language, Truth, and Literature: A Defence of Literary Humanism (2013), and The Unity of the Proposition (2008).
