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The Passion of Infinity generates a historical narrative surrounding the concept of the irrational as a threat which rational culture has made a series of attempts to understand and relieve. It begins with Sophocles' Oedipus , in whom human reason collides with the archaic force of the religious. It then moves through Aristotle's ethics, psychology and theory of tragedy, which redefine reason's collapses in moral-psychological rather than religious terms. The book culminates in an extensive reading of Kierkegaard, who, in a critical retrieval of both Greek tragedy and Aristotle, reconceives yet again the nature of reason's collision with the irrational.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

• Full title: Passion of Infinity
• Subtitle: Kierkegaard, Aristotle and the Rebirth of Tragedy
• Author: Daniel Greenspan
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 346
• EAN: 9783110203967
• ISBN: 3110203960
• ID: 12565466
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Weight: 669 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 155 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. September 2008

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