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Loading... Tragic Views of the Human Condition: Cross-Cultural Comparisons between Views of Human Nature in Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy and the Mahabharata and Bhagavadgitaby Lourens Minnema
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Can tragic views of the human condition as known to Westerners through Greek and Shakespearean tragedy be identified outside European culture, in the Indian culture of Hinduepic drama? In what respects can the Mahabharata epic's and the Bhagavadgita's views of the human condition be called 'tragic' in the Greek and Shakespearean senses of the word?Tragic views of the human condition are primarily embedded in stories. Only afterwards are these tragic views of the human condition expounded in theories of tragedy and in philosophical anthropologies. In the West, these stories constitute a specific narrative genre- 'tragedy'.aMinnema identifies embedded views of human nature in stories issues such as coping with evil, suffering, loss, death, power, gender, injustice, fate, freedom and explores them first in terms of their particular settings before comparing them cross-culturally. Thus, each chapter represents one set of aspects of tragedy, studied in a comparative context. In the end, the underlying question is- are Indian views of human nature very different from the Western perspective? No library descriptions found. |
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