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Reason's Grief

An Essay on Tragedy and Value

  • Paperback
  • 314 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

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For readers seeking deeper understanding of tragedy

Challenges traditional views on ethics and human loss

You will gain clarity on navigating life's difficult moments

Explore the profound insights of tragedy and value in Reason's Grief.

First published in 2006, Reason's Grief takes W. B. Yeats's comment that we begin to live only when we have conceived life as tragedy as a call for a tragic ethics, something the modern West has yet to produce. Harris argues that we must turn away from religious understandings of tragedy and the human condition and realize that our species will occupy a very brief period of history, at some point to disappear without a trace. We must accept an ethical perspective that avoids pernicious fantasies about ultimate redemption but that sees tragic loss as a permanent and pervasive aspect of our daily lives, yet finds a way to think, feel and act with both passion and hope. Reason's Grief takes us back through the history of our thinking about value to find our way. The call is for nothing less than a paradigm shift for understanding both tragedy and ethics.
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  • Title

    Reason\'s Grief

  • Author

    George W. Harris

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    September 2012

  • Weight

    464g

  • Page Count

    314

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781107407244

  • ISBN-10

    1107407249

  • Eden Code

    4590827

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