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The University of Chicago Press, Chicago
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Oxford University Press, Oxford
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'...
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Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
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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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The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. "Thy Bloody and Invisible Hand": Tragedy and Political Economy -- Chapter Two. Greek Tragedy and the Raptor Economy: The Oresteia -- Chapter Three. Marlowe's Theater of Night: Doctor Faustus...
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Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen, Bibliothek Nürtingen
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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. "Thy Bloody and Invisible Hand": Tragedy and Political Economy -- Chapter Two. Greek Tragedy and the Raptor Economy: The Oresteia -- Chapter Three. Marlowe's Theater of Night: Doctor Faustus and Capital -- Chapter Four. Hamlet and the Work of Death -- Chapter Five. The Same Old Grind: Milton's Samson as Subtragic Hero -- Chapter Six. Hegel, Marx, and the Novelization of Tragedy -- Chapter Seven. Beckett's Tragic Pantry -- Postscript. After Beckett -- Notes -- Index
