{"product_id":"aristotle-and-tragic-temporality-9781399536462","title":"Aristotle and Tragic Temporality","description":"\u003ci\u003eAristotle and Tragic Temporality\u003c\/i\u003e treats a theme that has drawn scholarly attention for millennia: Aristotle on time and our experience of it. It does so, however, in a wholly unprecedented way, grounding its interpretation in his \u003ci\u003ePoetics \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEthics\u003c\/i\u003e, rather than the natural philosophy of the \u003ci\u003ePhysics\u003c\/i\u003e. Sean D. Kirkland first takes up Aristotle's discussion of our tragic temporal situatedness--our having to act, think, and live always between a determining past we can never fully master and a projected future we can never fully anticipate. It is this condition that comes powerfully to light for Aristotle on stage in the performance of a tragic drama. The familiar Aristotelian 'virtue ethics' then becomes something radically new in the transforming light of the \u003ci\u003ePoetics\u003c\/i\u003e' temporality - an outline of how humans can inhabit that irremediably tragic condition, never overcoming or suspending it, and arrive nonetheless at something like happiness and excellence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sean D. Kirkland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Cycles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.55d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399536462","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48016485318793,"sku":"9781399536462","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_8b27a1af-2cd8-4d43-afc6-dec075ae094d.jpg?v=1787688849","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/aristotle-and-tragic-temporality-9781399536462","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}