Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us - Simon Critchley
Category: Self-help
Narrator: John Lee
Tags: Self-help, Literature, Adults
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group Release date: April 16, 2019 Duration: 08:41:44, From the curator of The New York Timess The Stone, a provocative and timely exploration into tragedyhow it articulates conflicts and contradiction that we need to address in order to better understand the world we live in., Tragedy presents a world of conflict and troubling emotion, a world where private and public lives collide and collapse. A world where morality is ambiguous and the powerful humiliate and destroy the powerless. A world where justice always seems to be on both sides of a conflict and sugarcoated words serve as cover for clandestine operations of violence. A world rather like our own., The ancient Greeks hold a mirror up to us, in which we see all the desolation and delusion of our lives but also the terrifying beauty and intensity of existence. This is not a time for consolation prizes and the fatuous banalities of the self-help industry and pop philosophy., Traged
