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Shame and Necessity
by Williams, Bernard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/Good+ (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Light shelfwear to boards
- ISBN 10
- 0520080467
- ISBN 13
- 9780520080461
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Hardcover. Good+/Good+ (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Pages are otherwise clear.). Pale gray cloth boards with gilt lettering; color illustrated dj; mylar cover; xii, 254 pp. "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."- DJ. 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.
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- Seller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 185976
- Title
- Shame and Necessity
- Author
- Williams, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+/Good+ (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Light shelfwear to boards
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0520080467
- ISBN 13
- 9780520080461
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- Literature Young and Old ; Greek Poetry ; ;
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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