The Concept of Tragedy: Its Importance for the Social Sciences in Unsettled Times Han Sam
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…
Specifikacia The Concept of Tragedy: Its Importance for the Social Sciences in Unsettled Times Han Sam
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 of crisis mean? In addressing such questions, this book also argues for a tragic vision embedded in the history of social thought, demonstrating the relevance of the ancient tragedians and Aristotle as well as Shakespeare and modern dramatists to the most pressing questions of agency and collectivity in the contemporary social sciences. Developing a theory of tragic social science, which is applied to topics including global inequality, celebrity culture, pandemics and climate change, The Concept