Binding: Paperback
Description: Events in the world today appear to be increasingly uncontrollable and unknowable. Climate change refugee crises and global pandemics seem to demonstrate the limits of human reason science and technology. In light of this the terms "tragedy" and "tragic" have come into greater use. What does the register of the tragic do? What does its deployment in the contemporary context and other times of crisis mean? In addressing such questions this book also argues for a "tragic vision" embedded in the history of social thought demonstrating the relevance of the ancient tragedians and Aristotle as well as Shakespeare and modern dramatists to the most pressing questions of agency and collectivity in the social sciences. Developing a theory of "tragic social science " which is applied to topics including global inequality celebrity culture pandemics and climate change The Concept of Tragedy aims to restore "tragedy" as a productive analytic in the social sciences. As such it will appeal to scholars of sociology anthropology social theory media and communications and literary criticism with interests in tragedy suffering and modernity.
Title: The Concept Of Tragedy Its Importance For The Social Sciences In Unsettled Times
Author(s): Han Sam (University Of Western Australia)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367620332
Pages: 164 Pages
Publication Date: 4/3/2023
Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
Category: Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography