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Feeding the ancients with our own blood -- Philosophy's tragedy and the dangerous perhaps -- Knowing and not knowing : how Oedipus brings down fate -- Rage, grief, and war -- Gorgias: tragedy is a deception that leaves the deceived wiser than the non-deceived -- Justice as conflict (for polytheism) -- Tragedy as a dialectical mode of experience -- Tragedy as invention, or the invention of tragedy : 12 theses -- A critique of the exotic Greeks -- Discussion of Vernant's and Vidal-Naquet's Myth and tragedy in ancient Greece -- Moral ambiguity in Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes and the suppliant maidens -- Tragedy, travesty, and queerness -- Polyphony -- The gods! Tragedy and the limitation of the claims to autonomy and self-sufficiency -- A critique of moral psychology and the project of psychical integration -- The problem with generalizing about the tragic -- Good Hegel, bad Hegel -- From philosophy back to theatre -- Against a certain style of philosophy -- An introduction to the Sophists -- Gorgiasm -- The not-being -- I have nothing to say and I am saying it -- Helen is innocent -- Tragedy and sophistry -- the case of Euripides' The Trojan women -- Rationality and force -- Plato's Sophist -- Phaedrus, a philosophical success -- Gorgias, a philosophical failure -- Indirection -- A city in speech -- Being dead is not a terrible thing -- The moral economy of mimesis -- Political forms and demonic excess -- What is mimesis? -- Philosophy as affect regulation -- The inoculation against our inborn love of poetry -- The rewards of virtue, or what happens when we die -- What is catharsis in Aristotle? -- More devastating -- Re-enactment -- Mimesis apraxeos -- The birth of tragedy (and comedy) -- Happiness and unhappiness consist in action -- Single or double? -- Most tragic euripides -- Monstrosity -- or Aristotle and his highlighter pen -- The anomaly of slaves and women -- Mechanical prebuttal -- The god finds a way to bring about what we do not imagine -- Misrecognition in Euripides -- Smeared make-up -- Sophocles' theatre of discomfort -- Vulgar acting and epic inferiority -- Is Aristotle really more generous to tragedy than Plato? -- Poetics II -- Aristotle on comedy -- Tormented incomprehensibly -- against homeopathic catharsis -- Aristophanes falls asleep -- Make Athens great again -- Trans-generational curse -- Aliveness. |