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Author Williams, Bernard, 1929-2003.

Title Shame and necessity / Bernard Williams
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993]
©1993

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Description xii, 254 pages ; 24 cm
Series Sather classical lectures ; v. 57
Sather classical lectures ; v. 57
Contents I. The Liberation of Antiquity -- II. Centres of Agency -- III. Recognising Responsibility -- IV. Shame and Autonomy -- V. Necessary Identities -- VI. Possibility, Freedom, and Power -- Endnote 1: Mechanisms of Shame and Guilt -- Endnote 2: Phaedra's Distinction: Euripides Hippolytus 380-87 -- Index Locorum
Summary The author is a philosopher, but much of his book is directed to writers such as Homer and the tragedians, whom he discusses as poets and not just materials for philosophy. At the center of his study is the question of how we can understand Greek tragedy at all, when its world is so far from ours
Analysis Greek poetry History
Greek poetry History
Greek poetry - History and criticism
Notes "A Centennial book"--P. facing t.p
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index
Notes Sather classical lectures no:57 0080-6684
Subject Ethics in literature.
Greek poetry -- History and criticism.
Necessity (Philosophy) in literature.
Philosophy, Ancient, in literature.
Shame in literature.
LC no. 92002212
ISBN 0520080467 (alk. paper)
0520088301 (paperback)