Sam Han

The Concept of Tragedy

Its Importance for the Social Sciences in Unsettled Times

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the notion of 'the tragic' from the perspective of social science. Tracing the history of tragedy and arguing for the relevance of the concept for social science today, it develops the idea of 'tragic social science' as a useful analytic to be applied to a range of modern topics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780367627980
• ISBN-10: 0367627981
• Artikelnr.: 67256826

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Why tragedy? Why now?
Part I
2. Beyond intentionality: the will, agency, and subjectivity in ancient
and classical tragedy
3. The tragic individual: catharsis, the hero, and the flaw in Aristotle
and beyond
4. Modern tragedy and its subjects: Shakespeare, Freud, and
post-Christian metaphysics
Part II
5. The theodicy of suffering: abjection under capitalism
6. From hero to celebrity: Fame, familiarity, and redemption
7. Tragedy of the commons: genre and collective agency amidst climate
change and the COVID-19 pandemic
8. Toward a tragic social science: responsibility, critique, and
thinking diffractively

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Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Why tragedy? Why now?


Part I


2. Beyond intentionality: the will, agency, and subjectivity in ancient and classical tragedy



3. The tragic individual: catharsis, the hero, and the flaw in Aristotle and beyond



4. Modern tragedy and its subjects: Shakespeare, Freud, and post-Christian metaphysics


Part II


5. The theodicy of suffering: abjection under capitalism



6. From hero to celebrity: Fame, familiarity, and redemption



7. Tragedy of the commons: genre and collective agency amidst climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic



8. Toward a tragic social science: responsibility, critique, and thinking diffractively