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Aristotle and Tragic Temporality

by Sean D. Kirkland
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781399536455
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
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  • Pages: 264
  • Original Price: USD 125.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 536 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Individual Philosophers, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, and Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Aristotle and Tragic Temporality treats a theme that has drawn scholarly attention for millennia: Aristotle on time and our experience of it. It does so, however, in a wholly unprecedented way, grounding its interpretation in his Poetics and Ethics, rather than the natural philosophy of the Physics. Sean D. Kirkland first takes up Aristotle's discussion of our tragic temporal situatedness--our having to act, think, and live always between a determining past we can never fully master and a projected future we can never fully anticipate. It is this condition that comes powerfully to light for Aristotle on stage in the performance of a tragic drama. The familiar Aristotelian 'virtue ethics' then becomes something radically new in the transforming light of the Poetics' temporality - an outline of how humans can inhabit that irremediably tragic condition, never overcoming or suspending it, and arrive nonetheless at something like happiness and excellence.

Kirkland, Sean D.: - Sean D. Kirkland is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University and serves as the Co-Director of DePaul's Institute for Nature and Culture. He specializes in ancient Greek philosophy, as well as 19th and 20th century continental philosophy. He is the author of Heidegger and the Destruction of Aristotle (Northwestern, 2023) and The Ontology of Socratic Questioning (SUNY, 2012), as well as co-editor of A Companion to Ancient Philosophy (Northwestern, 2018) and The Returns of Antigone (SUNY, 2014).

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