{"product_id":"ethics-of-tragedy-ari-hirvonen-9781910761090","title":"Ethics of Tragedy: Dwelling, Thinking, Measuring","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEthics of Tragedy\u003c\/em\u003e is a profound analysis of Greek tragedies, especially refugee tragedies and Sophocles' Oedipus-trilogy, that presents the sense of tragedy in a time of rapacious capitalism and ecocatastrophe. Ari Hirvonen argues that theatre is a public space for tragedies, politics, democracy and justice, bringing together thinking and poeticizing, limits and transgression, fate and freedom. Instead of justifying the existing political order, tragedy disrupts, dissents, and exceeds it. Understood in this way, ethics is revealed as a fundamental part of tragedy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing upon H lderlin, Hegel, Heidegger and Lacan as well as Butler, Irigaray, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Badiou, among others, this book is both a meditation on the theatricality of tragedy and a critique of tragic judgment. Despite being a philosophical treatise, Hirvonen rejects readings that reduce tragedies to philosophical ideas, moral principles, aesthetic dogmas, or heroic identities. Instead, he argues that tragedy reveals a non-essentialist ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the midst of hegemonic capitalist realism, we have lost the capacity to measure. As a disruption of our ways of sensing and the making sense of the world, tragedy inspires the art of measuring in a world without measures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ari Hirvonen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1910761095\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781910761090\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Counterpress\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d","brand":"Ari Hirvonen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43941719834879,"sku":"9781910761090","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_6dc88946-4bb7-4d39-8823-db6b48c41892.jpg?v=1681454571","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ethics-of-tragedy-ari-hirvonen-9781910761090","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}