Hannah Arendt Center, Human Rights Project, Philosophy Program, and Politics Program present:
Lecture: Philippe Nonet
The Unity of Tragedy and Comedy.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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Phiippe Nonet's (UC Berkeley) books and essays on Law and Heidegger have garnered him a reputation as one of the nation's leading Heideggerian thinkers. He does not publish often, but his essays are surprising, provocative, and passionate. He will present his most recent and as yet unpublished work on the meaning of tragedy and comedy for the Greeks.
The Unity of Tragedy and Comedy
"Tragedy and comedy emerge from two radically opposed, and yet intimately related sides of the cult of Dionysos. Neither one can be thought apart from its relation to the other. Both have their roots in the Greek experience of the essence of life and death. One starting point of the discussion will be Herakleitos fragment 15."
You can read Professor Nonet's essay, Time and Law,
here: http://www.bepress.com/til/default/vol8/iss1/art13/
His keynote address at the Law, Culture, and Humanities Conference, Antigone's Law,
is available here: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5480b45q
The Unity of Tragedy and Comedy
"Tragedy and comedy emerge from two radically opposed, and yet intimately related sides of the cult of Dionysos. Neither one can be thought apart from its relation to the other. Both have their roots in the Greek experience of the essence of life and death. One starting point of the discussion will be Herakleitos fragment 15."
You can read Professor Nonet's essay, Time and Law,
here: http://www.bepress.com/til/default/vol8/iss1/art13/
His keynote address at the Law, Culture, and Humanities Conference, Antigone's Law,
is available here: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5480b45q