| Description |
1 online resource (x, 300 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-296) and index. |
| Contents |
An aesthetic prelude -- The problem of tragedy -- The dubious ubiquity of reason -- Nihilism -- Pessimism -- Monism : an epitaph -- Moralism and the inconstancy of value -- Moralism and the impurity of value -- Best life pluralism and reason's regret -- Tragic pluralism and reason's grief -- Postscript on the future : the idea of progress and the avoidance of despair. |
| Summary |
In Reason's Grief, George Harris takes W.B. Yeats's comment that we begin to live only when we have conceived life as tragedy as a call for a tragic ethics, something the modern West has yet to produce. He argues that we must turn away from religious understandings of tragedy and the human condition and realize that our species will occupy a very brief period of history, at some point to disappear without a trace. We must accept an ethical perspective that avoids pernicious fantasies about ultimate redemption but that sees tragic loss as a permanent and pervasive aspect of our daily lives, yet finds a way to think, feel, and act with both passion and hope. Reason's Grief takes us back through the history of our thinking about value to find our way. The call is for nothing less than a paradigm shift for understanding both tragedy and ethics. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Tragic, The.
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Tragic, The. |
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Values.
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Values. |
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Ethics.
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Ethics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Harris, George W. Reason's grief. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006 0521863287 9780521863285 (DLC) 2005026789 (OCoLC)61684141 |
| ISBN |
0521863287 (cloth) |
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9780521863285 (cloth) |
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0511225873 (electronic book) |
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9780511225871 (electronic book) |
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9780511226441 (electronic book) |
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0511226446 (electronic book) |
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9780511224591 |
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0511224591 |
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9780511498930 (ebook) |
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0511498934 (ebook) |
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1280541466 |
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9781280541469 |
| Standard No. |
9780521863285 |
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