The tragic mind : fear, fate, and the burden of power
Robert D. Kaplan
Bok · Engelsk · 2023
| Omfang | xiv, 135 sider
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| Opplysninger | Preface -- The battle of good against good -- The age of Dionysus -- Order: the ultimate necessity -- Order and necessity must be obeyed, even when they are unjust -- Order creates perpetual conflict between loyalty to the family and loyalty to the state -- The state becomes the wellspring of ambition -- Ambition and the struggle against tyranny and injustice -- War and its horrors -- Because war is ever-present, the burden of power is overwhelming -- Imperial wars are decided by fate -- From the suffering of heroes comes the essence of tragedy -- The truth is possessed only by the old and the blind -- Because different goods struggle against each other, we have consciences -- Time is ungrateful -- Epilogue.. - "A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy."--. - A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy “Classical drama provides crucial lessons for policymakers. . . . A road map for effective, well-considered policy.”—Kirkus Reviews Some books emerge from a lifetime of hard-won knowledge. Robert D. Kaplan has learned, from a career spent reporting on wars, revolutions, and international politics in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, that the essence of geopolitics is tragedy. In The Tragic Mind, he employs the works of ancient Greek dramatists, Shakespeare, German philosophers, and the modern classics to explore the central subjects of international politics: order, disorder, rebellion, ambition, loyalty to family and state, violence, and the mistakes of power. The great dilemmas of international politics, he argues, are not posed by good versus evil—a clear and easy choice—but by contests of good versus good, where the choices are often searing, incompatible, and fraught with consequences. A deeply learned and deeply felt meditation on the importance of lived experience in conducting international relations, this is a book for everyone who wants a profound understanding of the tragic politics of our time.
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| ISBN | 9780300263862
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