{"product_id":"shakespeares-tragic-mirror-a-philosophical-investigation-9798258780201","title":"Shakespeare's Tragic Mirror: A Philosophical Investigation","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Boris Kriger\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Religious\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if the greatest philosophical treatises ever written were not treatises at all, but tragedies performed on a wooden stage in sixteenth-century London?\u003cbr\u003eIn Shakespeare's Tragic Mirror, Boris Kriger takes readers on a provocative journey through eight of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies - Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus - revealing them not as museum pieces of English literature, but as living instruments of self-knowledge. Each play becomes a lens through which we examine the forces that still govern human life: jealousy, ambition, pride, the hunger for power, and the impossibility of making a truly right choice in a world that offers none.\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on existentialism, Stoic philosophy, Christian ethics, psychoanalysis, political theory, and his own life experience, Kriger demonstrates that Shakespeare anticipated the deepest insights of Sartre, Camus, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Freud - centuries before any of them were born. The result is a book that makes Shakespeare dangerous again: not a subject for exams, but a mirror in which every reader will recognize their own face.\u003cbr\u003eWritten with wit, philosophical depth, and an uncompromising refusal to simplify, Shakespeare's Tragic Mirror is for anyone who has ever wondered why these four-hundred-year-old stories still feel like they were written yesterday - and for anyone brave enough to ask what they reveal about the human beings reading them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKeywords: \u003c\/b\u003e Shakespeare, philosophy, tragedy, existentialism, human nature, power, self-knowledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883451007127,"sku":"9798258780201","price":2014.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798258780201.webp?v=1781101953","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/shakespeares-tragic-mirror-a-philosophical-investigation-9798258780201","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}