Hardcover and dust jacket. Shelf wear. Binding slightly cocked. Foxing to edges. Pages unmarked.

Hardcover and dust jacket. Shelf wear. Binding slightly cocked. Foxing to edges. Pages unmarked.

254 pp. Spine cocked, occasional pen markings. From the personal library of theologian and ethicist Stanley Hauerwas with his signature to FFEP.

254 pp. Spine cocked, occasional pen markings. From the personal library of theologian and ethicist Stanley Hauerwas with his signature to FFEP.

Pale gray cloth boards with gilt lettering; color illustrated dj; mylar

Pale gray cloth boards with gilt lettering; color illustrated dj; mylar cover; xii, 254 pp. "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."-DJ. Contents: I. The Liberation of Antiquity--II. Centres of Agency--III. Recognising Responsibility--IV. Shame and Autonomy--V. Necessary Identities--VI. Possibility, Freedom, and Power--Endnote 1: Mechanisms of Shame and Guilt--Endnote 2: Phaedra's Distinction: Euripides Hippolytus 380-87--Index Locorum.

Size: 100x16x144; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Size: 100x16x144; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!