Search results for "Tragedy"

The strange case of Pomar family: the dangers of roads

2012

Many studies conducted on risk-related issues use quantitative methods. Questionnaires or formal interviews are applied to subjects to construct some attitude or particular opinion about their sense of security. Since the risk-perception theory has been brought from cognitive psychology, there is a biased assumption to think this issue should use these survey types of techniques. In contrast, this article proposes that risk as social construal should be studied according to qualitative analyses that explore the connection between variables. That women perceive more risks than men can be a of second-order explanation, appropriate for opinion polls or managerial policies, but not scientific a…

Klasyczna teoria dramatu i jej wychowawcze implikacje

2009

Adorno's tragic vision

2018

This dissertation deals with the tragic vision that motivates certain key aspects of Theodor W. Adorno’s philosophy. While in the formative early work, the Dialectic of Enlightenment, co-written with Max Horkheimer, the tragic views are clear, in later works, such as the Aesthetic Theory and the Negative Dialectics, they are only implicit. The study reconstructs the tragic vision found in the Dialectic of Enlightenment and uses it as a key to understand Adorno’s mature philosophy. A tragic vision is born when specific philosophical convictions regarding agency and morality coalesce with certain ethical and political conditions. A tragic vision forms the grounds for tragic views. For Adorno,…

Narratives of Spousal Support for the Careers of Men in Managerial Posts

2016

This article analyses the narratives of men managers to see how they perceive their wives' support in relation to their careers. Our aim is to focus on different forms of spousal support and explore how the support can evolve in the course of the men's careers. We are also interested in what kind of gender relations men produce when narrating their experiences of spousal support for their career. The research material comprises interviews with 29 managers who are fathers. In contrast to many previous studies, the results here suggest that spousal support is not a fixed or uncomplicated phenomenon but is constructed as various and flexible by men: negotiated , enriching and declining. The na…

The Janus Face of Political Experience

2018

Arendt’s concept of experience can contribute in important ways to the contemporary debates in political and feminist theory. However, while the notion is ubiquitous in Arendt’s thinking we lack an understanding of experience as a concept, as opposed to the impact of Arendt’s personal experiences on her thought. Drawing from her notes for “Political Experiences in the Twentieth Century,” the article seeks to enrich our understanding of the Janus-faced character of political experience. It emphasizes the importance of vicariousness, and argues that experience should be understood as a process of suffering, enduring, and re-experiencing events beyond our conscious control. The article further…

Lecture de The Tragedy of Chabot de George Chapman (1639) : de la fixité au recentrement”

2002

1. Présentation générale. Les sources (Christine Sukic) The Tragedy of Chabot est une pièce typiquement chapmanienne. Pourtant, on a, dans le passé, émis des doutes sur l’auteur véritable de cette tragédie. En effet, la première édition date de 1639, soit cinq ans après la mort de Chapman. Sur la page de titre apparaît le nom de deux auteurs : George Chapman et James Shirley. De plus, dans le Registre des Libraires, seul le nom de Shirley a été enregistré en 1638. L’opinion la plus répandue a...

"Popiel i Piast" Mieczysława Romanowskiego w dokumentacji genezy

2020

The tragedy of Mieczysław Romanowski Popiel i Piast, published in 1862, was enthusiastically received by critics in the second half of the 19th century as a testimony to a realistic overthrow of the primacy of Romantic aesthetics in depicting the legendary prehistory of the Polish nation. The preserved handwritten documentation of the genesis of the work, previously viewed randomly and through the prism of its printed version, analyzed using genetic critique methods, reveals the author’s original ideas – closer to the “used” forms of romanticism – and breakthrough moments in shaping the presented world, characters and conflicts of the drama.

The 2016 EU Referendum Stories in Austrian, German, and Swiss Media: Catastrophes, Characterizations, Challenges

2018

People construct meaning by telling stories, so what are the stories told in Austrian, German and Swiss media about the 2016 EU referendum? They are stories of catastrophe and tragedy; of politicians characterized as working for their parties and careers, not for the public; stories of right-wing populism and nationalism, constructing illusions about the nation’s history; descriptions of responsibilities and the enormous causes and consequences of the EU referendum; stories of the incredible threats to society, democracy and the state; and definitions of what needs to be done now in the EU and UK in order to improve people’s lives.

La Grecia “tragica” di Alberto Savinio

2014

La riflessione sul tragico ha un ruolo centrale nel pensiero di Alberto Savinio e accompagna l’intero svolgimento del suo percorso intellettuale e artistico. Non solo Savinio torna più volte a esaminare sul piano estetico-filosofico le categorie di «dramma» e di «tragedia» – partendo naturalmente dall’analisi della tragedia greca, e associandovi la lettura di Vico, Leopardi, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Spengler e Freud – ma esse divengono anche elementi fondanti di una personale poetica, che nel corso degli anni va continuamente ridisegnando se stessa: dall’arte metafisica, che al tempo di «Valori plastici» si delinea come sola forma artistica capace di far rivivere lo «spirito tragico» propri…

Disumano, troppo umano. La maschera del tiranno e l’antropologia dei filosofi (da Sofocle a Seneca)

2019

Tyranny is often regarded as "a perennial problem" (Boesche 1996) on the basis of its ubiquitous presence in literature. Even more enduring is the problem of how to define human nature, its place in the environment, and its relationship to the divine – a core issue of philosophical anthropology (Pansera 2001, Honenberger 2015). In the present paper, I shall approach the literary construction of the tyrant figure in Greek and Roman tragedy from the holistic perspective of philosophical anthropology. I will focus on three well-known dramas (Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Antigone and Seneca’s Thyestes) which put great emphasis on the moral and cognitive status of tyrants as “exceptional” hum…