Tragedy and citizenship conflict, reconciliation, and democracy from Haemon to Hegel / by Barker, Derek Wai Ming

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Hölderlin and the poetry of tragedy : readings in Sophocles, Shakespeare, Nietzsche and Benjamin / by Tambling, Jeremy

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Epochal discordance Hölderlin's philosophy of tragedy / by Fóti, Véronique Marion

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Shakespeare's tragic skepticism by Bell, Millicent

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Architecture's evil empire? the triumph and tragedy of global modernism / by Glendinning, Miles, 1956-

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The Philosophy of Nietzsche : Thus Spake Zarathustra , Beyond Good and Evil , The Geneology of Morals , Ecce Homo, The Birth of Tragedy.

The Total Work of Art in European Modernism / by Roberts, David, 1937-

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The art of failure an essay on the pain of playing video games / by Juul, Jesper, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the paradox of failure -- The paradox of failure and the paradox of tragedy -- The feeling of failure -- Designing failure -- Fictional failure -- The art of failure.…”
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Punishment and shame a philosophical study / by Hamblet, Wendy C., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Justice and the cosmic order in Greek mythology -- Justice and punishment in Greek tragedy -- Honor and shame in the heroic worldview -- Justice and punishment in classical Athens -- From avenging to healing -- Shame as witness to education -- Plato's revolutionary penology -- The science of penal measure -- Toward a Christian philosophy of punishment -- From karitas to penal spectacle -- The business of punishment -- Modernity's shameful penology -- Shame, social injustice, and the poor's right to crime.…”
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The promise of liberty a non-utopian vision / by Machan, Tibor R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Why moral judgments can be objective -- Theorists versus their theories : the case of agent causation -- Ethics and its controversial assumptions -- Individualism and human success -- Virtue, liberty, and private property : aspects of humanist political economy -- Economic analysis and the pursuit of liberty -- Human rights and poverty -- Rights, values, regulation, and health care -- The morality of smoking -- Philosophy, physics, and common sense -- The calculation problem and the tragedy of the commons -- Government budget crises -- Some reflections on the right to private property -- Revisiting a critique of libertarianism -- Leo Strauss, neo-conservative? …”
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Anton Chekhov through the eyes of Russian thinkers Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov /

Table of Contents: “…/ Vladimir Golstein -- Lev Shestov on Chekhov / Andrei Stepanov -- Between tragedy and aesthetics: Shestov's reading of Chekhov / Olga Tabachnikova -- Shestov-Chekhov, Chekhov-Shestov / Savely Senderovich -- Philosophy's enemies: Chekhov and Shestov / Svetlana Evdokimova.…”
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Dialogue in the digital age : why it matters how we read and what we say / by Grant, Patrick, 1941-

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An archaeology of the contemporary era : the age of destruction / by González Ruibal, Alfredo

Table of Contents: “…The soft politics of contemporary archaeologyA radical politics for contemporary archaeology; Summary; CHAPTER 4: Ethics; The hegemony of ethics; The ethics of witnessing; The temporality of ethics; Ethics and affect; Summary; CHAPTER 5: Aesthetics; The aesthetic regimes of art and archaeology; The politics of the sensible; A poetics of things; Making the mud and crops speak: an archaeological rhetoric; Summary; CHAPTER 6: Time; Presentism; Annihilation; Acceleration; Heterochrony; The time of tragedy and hope; Summary; CHAPTER 7: Space; Expansion; Impoverishment; Ephemerality…”
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Martin Heidegger and the Question of Literature : Toward a Postmodern Literary Hermeneutics /

Table of Contents: “…Rosenfeld -- Heidegger and tragedy / Michael Gelvin -- From Heidegger to Derrida to chance : doubling and (poetic) language / Joseph N. …”
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