دینا فایل / Narrativity, Modernity, and Tragedy
Narrativity, Modernity, and Tragedy
Narrativity, Modernity, and Tragedy
تعداد صفحه : 41 American Philosophy Narrativity, Modernity, and Tragedy: How Pragmatism Educates Humanity Sami Pihlström University of Helsinki sami.pihlstrom@helsinki.fi ABSTRACT: I argue that the modernist notion of a human self (or subject) cannot easily be post-modernistically rejected because the need to view an individual life as a unified ‘narrative’ with a beginning and an end (death) is a condition for asking humanly important questions about its meaningfulness (or meaninglessness). Such questions are central to philosophical anthropology. However, not only modern ways of making sense of life, such as linear narration in literature, but also premodern ones such as tragedy, ought to be taken seriously in reflecting on these questions. The tradition of...