Martha Nussbaum contents that Aristotle’s use of Greek tragedy gave him a particularly rich vision of how to lead a good life.
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Greek Tragedy & the Fragility of Goodness
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Why Trump Is Not a Tragic Hero
Wednesday The strangest development in the Trump Ukraine scandal may be the way that Trump himself has given us the smoking gun—which is to say, the rough transcript of a phone call where he tries to shake down the Ukrainian president for dirt on the 2020 political opponent he most fears. Jon Meacham attributes Trump’s […]
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Why Literary Suffering Made Plato Nervous
Plato worried that Greek tragedy causes us to act irrationally.
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Doc, Prescribe Me a Poem
Literature as therapy, Greek tragedy as soap opera: assorted articles about lit and life.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Variation on a Theme by Rilke", catharsis, Denise Levertov, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, Oedipus Rex, Sophocles Comments closed
