Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

From the moderator of The New York Times philosophy blog "The Stone," a book that argues that if we want to understand ourselves we have to go back to theater, to the stage of our lives

“Engaging and congenial . . .makes the cogent, compelling argument that we ignore Greek Tragedy at our own peril.” —New York Journal of Books

Tragedy presents a world of conflict and troubling emotion, a world where private and public lives collide and collapse. A world where morality is ambiguous and the powe...