The Concept of Tragedy: Its Importance for the Social Sciences in Unsettled Times

ISBN-13: 9780367620332 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 184 str.

Sam (University of Western Australia) Han

Opis

This book explores the notion of ‘the tragic’ from the perspective of social science. Tracing the history of tragedy and arguing for the relevance of the concept for social science today, it develops the idea of ‘tragic social science’ as a useful analytic to be applied to a range of modern topics.

O autorze

Sam Han is Lecturer in Sociology at Brunel University, London. He is the author of (Inter)Facing Death: Life in Global Uncertainty, Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the Sacred in a Post-Secular Modernity and Digital Culture and Religion in Asia (with Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir), and other works.