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Eclipse of Action: Tragedy and Political Economy
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Eclipse of Action: Tragedy and Political Economy Hardcover - 2017

by Richard Halpern


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According to traditional accounts, the history of tragedy is itself tragic: following a miraculous birth in fifth-century Athens and a brilliant resurgence in the early modern period, tragic drama then falls into a marked decline. While disputing the notion that tragedy has died, this wide-ranging study argues that it faces an unprecedented challenge in modern times from an unexpected quarter: political economy. Since Aristotle, tragedy has been seen as uniquely exhibiting the importance of action for human happiness. Beginning with Adam Smith, however, political economy has claimed that the source of happiness is primarily production. Eclipse of Action examines the tense relations between action and production, doing and making, in playwrights from Aeschylus, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Milton to Beckett, Arthur Miller, and Sarah Kane. Richard Halpern places these figures in conversation with works by Aristotle, Smith, Hegel, Marx, Hannah Arendt, Georges Bataille, and others in order to trace the long history of the ways in which economic thought and tragic drama interact.

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  • Title Eclipse of Action: Tragedy and Political Economy
  • Author Richard Halpern
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Hardback
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Date 2017
  • ISBN 9780226433653 / 022643365X
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Economics in literature, Tragedy - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016032545
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.251

About the author

Richard Halpern is the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature at New York University. He is the author of several books, including Norman Rockwell: The Underside of Innocence, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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