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The Tragedy of Reason
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: David Roochnik
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-12-24 - Publisher: Routledge

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First Published in 1991. This book attempts to defend a conception of reason—or to use the Greek word "logos"—that I contend can be extracted from the dialo
The Tragedy of Reason
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: David Roochnik
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-13 - Publisher: Routledge

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The classical conception of reason (or logos) has been repeatedly attacked in the modern era. Its enemies range from Descartes, who complains that logos is not
The Tragedy of Philosophy
Language: en
Pages: 318
Authors: Andrew Cooper
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-30 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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In The Tragedy of Philosophy Andrew Cooper challenges the prevailing idea of the death of tragedy, arguing that this assumption reflects a problematic view of b
Reason's Grief
Language: en
Pages: 9
Authors: George W. Harris
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-07-24 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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
The Claim of Reason
Language: en
Pages: 544
Authors: Stanley Cavell
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-07-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The first three parts of this book deal with the tension between ordinary language philosophy (as envisioned in the writings of J.L. Austin and the later Wittge