The Gin game

Subjects: “…Tragicomedy.…”

The Winter's tale

The crane's walk : Plato, pluralism, and the inconstancy of truth / by Barris, Jeremy

Table of Contents: “…Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman : the tragicomedy of knowledge, reality, and responsible conduct --…”
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Nietzsche's The gay science : an introduction / by Ure, Michael, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Nietzsche's tragicomedy -- Nietzsche's new nobility: book one -- Redeeming art: book two -- Shadows of God: book three -- Sanctus Januarius: book four -- Eternal recurrence: personal infinity -- Dionysian pessimism: book five -- Nietzsche's Saturnalia: 1886 preface.…”
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The crane's walk : Plato, pluralism, and the inconstancy of truth / by Barris, Jeremy

Table of Contents: “…Internal and external connections -- Artificiality and nature (sometimes being is something else) -- Knowledge as intervention : difficulties and solutions -- A philosophical rhetoric -- Knowledge as intervention : advantages -- The variegated texture of truth -- The artificiality of rigorous thought and the artificial dimensions of reality -- The risk of rigorous thought -- Mixture and purity -- What Plato is about : an overview -- Charmides : lust, love, and the problem of knowledge -- Republic : justice, knowledge, and the problem of love -- Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman : the tragicomedy of knowledge, reality, and responsible conduct -- The unevenly even consistency of truth.…”

The first modern Jew : Spinoza and the history of an image / by Schwartz, Daniel B., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Ex-Jew, eternal Jew: early representations of the Jewish Spinoza -- Refining Spinoza: Moses Mendelssohn's response to the Amsterdam heretic -- The first modern Jew: Berthold Auerbach's Spinoza and the beginnings of an image -- A rebel against the past, a revealer of secrets: Salomon Rubin and the east European Maskilic Spinoza -- From the heights of Mount Scopus: Yosef Klausner and the Zionist rehabilitation of Spinoza -- Farewell, Spinoza: I.B. Singer and the tragicomedy of the Jewish Spinozist.…”

The first modern Jew : Spinoza and the history of an image / by Schwartz, Daniel B., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Spinoza's Jewish modernities -- Ex-Jew, eternal Jew: early representations of the Jewish Spinoza -- Refining Spinoza : Moses Mendelssohn's response to the Amsterdam heretic -- The first modern Jew : Berthold Auerbach's Spinoza and the beginnings of an image -- A rebel against the past, a revealer of secrets : Salomon Rubin and the east European Maskilic Spinoza -- From the heights of Mount Scopus : Yosef Klausner and the Zionist rehabilitation of Spinoza -- Farewell, Spinoza : I.B. Singer and the tragicomedy of the Jewish Spinozist -- Epilogue : Spinoza Redivivus in the twenty-first century.…”
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Lacan, psychoanalysis, and comedy /

Table of Contents: “…: Lacan, Freud, and Marx on the economy of jokes / Jean Michel Rabaté -- Mother pumper and the analyst's donuts / Jamieson Webster -- Not in the humor : bulimic dreams / Carol Owens -- Comedy on the couch -- Psychoanalysis and tragicomedy : measure for measure after Zizek's Lacanian dialectics / Geoff Boucher -- Comedy and the agency of the letter in a midsummer night's dream / Matthew Sharpe -- Jane Austen's wit-craft / Molly Rothenberg -- The sexual politics of comedy : Henry James's "the chaperon" / Sigi Jottkandt -- Power in the closet : and its coming out / Alenka Zupan'is -- He who laughs last, laughs last -- Epilogue: repetition, repetition, repetition : richard prince and the three R's / Simon Critchley.…”
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The political dialogue of nature and grace : towards a phenomenology of chaste anarchism / by Smith Gilson, Caitlin

Table of Contents: “…Le Dieu Révolté: The impossibility of the Christian polisThe political silence of the descent into Hell; Home before dark; The Secular City: The dark at the top of the stairs; Separate tables; The man who isn't there; The political wager of the penitential gaze; The progressivist as ideologue versus the wayfarer as comprehensor; The tragicomedy of the Christian polis; 4 The Groundwork for the Christian Polis: Noli Me Tangere; Athens and Jerusalem: The case against metaphysics; The uninvited: Parmenides in chains; The unseen: An apotheosis of groundlessness.…”
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