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#1 Tragedy exposes us to what we do not know about ourselves. It forces us to confront our past and its effects on us, which can be both terrifying and humbling. It helps us understand our dependence on others and the vulnerability of our existence.
#2 Tragedy is the imitation of action, and action is called into question through tragedy. The experience of tragedy invites us to consider how we act in the world, and what we should do. It is not about the cultivation of a solitary life of contemplation, but the difficulty and uncertainty of action in a world defined by ambiguity.
#3 The tradition yields us only ruins. The more closely we examine them, the more clearly we see how ruinous they are. But out of the ruins, no whole can be built. The tradition is dead; our task is to revivify life that has passed away.
#4 The we that is found in tragedy is invitational, an invitation to visit another sense of who we are and who we might become. If we don’t accept this invitation, we risk becoming even more stupefied by the present and the onrush of the future.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	11 mai 2022
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EAN13	9798822505223
Langue	English
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Tragedy exposes us to what we do not know about ourselves. It forces us to confront our past and its effects on us, which can be both terrifying and humbling. It helps us understand our dependence on others and the vulnerability of our existence.

#2

Tragedy is the imitation of action, and action is called into question through tragedy. The experience of tragedy invites us to consider how we act in the world, and what we should do. It is not about the cultivation of a solitary life of contemplation, but the difficulty and uncertainty of action in a world defined by ambiguity.

#3

The tradition yields us only ruins. The more closely we examine them, the more clearly we see how ruinous they are. But out of the ruins, no whole can be built. The tradition is dead; our task is to revivify life that has passed away.

#4

The we that is found in tragedy is invitational, an invitation to visit another sense of who we are and who we might become. If we don’t accept this invitation, we risk becoming even more stupefied by the present and the onrush of the future.

#5

Tragedy is about what suffers in us and in others, and how we might become cognizant of that suffering. It is a pathos that we undergo, and it is both something undergone and partially overtaken in action.

#6

Tragedy’s philosophy is sophistry, meaning it is a form of thinking that is opposite to philosophy’s. I want to defend a tragic philosophy, which is a form of thinking that is opposite to philosophy’s.

#7

The most famous example of Greek tragedy is Oedipus the King, which depicts the king as a tyrant and a pollution by the city that made him king. But the play requires some degree of complicity on our part in the disaster that destroys us.

#8

In tragedy, time is out of joint and the linear conception of time as a teleological flow from the past to the future is thrown into reverse. The past is not past, the future folds back upon itself, and the present is shot through with fluxions of past and future that destabilize it.

#9

Tragedy is about the conditions for seeing and hearing. In making us blind, we might achieve some insight. When we finally achieve some insight, we might pluck out our eyes for shame.

#10

Tragedy is the rage that stems from grief, and it exists because we are full of war and people have been killed. The history of Greek tragedy is the history of war, from the Persian War in the early fifth century BCE to the Peloponnesian Wars in the late fifth century BCE.

#11

The virtue of Greek tragedy is that it makes us realize the complexity of political situations, and how we are all implicated in them. It makes us understand the dangers of easy pacifism, and the need to speak of war.

#12

The Greek word apate, which means cheating, trickery, fraud, guile, deceit, and cunning, is also used to describe the effect of tragedy. It refers to the power of persuasion to induce the affective effects of imitation.

#13

The tragic poets can lead us to have sympathy for morally suspect characters. For Plato, this is an awful danger, the danger of deception and fiction. The only true antidote to theatrokratia is philosophia.

#14

The question of the necessity and moral and political productivity of deception, of fiction, of fraud, and of illusion is at the heart of the relation between philosophy and tragedy.

#15

Tragedy is a conflict between opposed parties, and it is often the law that is at the core of tragedy. The law court is still a theater today, and we can see this in the adversarial reasoning that takes place there.

#16

The world of Greek tragedy is a polytheistic world with a diversity of conflicting and deeply flawed gods. It is my belief that the lesson of the adversarial reasoning of tragedy is that it is prudent to abandon any notion of monotheism.

#17

Tragedy is a mode of experience that can be found well outside the theater, in film, TV, politics, and even in our domestic lives. It is a dialectical mode of experience that requires us to see our implication within the conflicts of the present and our responsibility for them.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The twelve theses on tragedy are: 1. Tragedy is an invention, not the expression of a religiously legitimized ritual. It is a metaritual or an institution premised upon a temporal disjunction, specifically the disjunction of past and present.

#2

The mood of ancient tragedy is skeptical, and it is about the dissolution of all the markers of certitude that exist in the repeated question What shall I do.

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