Shame and Necessity

Shame and Necessity
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 0520088301
ISBN-13 : 9780520088306
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Book Synopsis Shame and Necessity by : Bernard Williams

Download or read book Shame and Necessity written by Bernard Williams and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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