Yes, I continue the obsession with tragedy in this Tuesday’s Flash Focus, beginning with Louis Ruprecht’s neat summary of the two primary conflicts that emerge from Hegelian tragedy: (1) “the self comes into conflict with the social and political powers that be”; and (2) the individual comes into conflict with “Destiny, the gods, and the will of the world” (42).
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