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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: Comedy of Survival
I'd add that Meeker's very formulation--comic versus tragic--is itself a tragic view of the world, an us-vs.-them dichotomy that lies at the heart of much of what he classifies as a tragic attitude. Wouldn't a more comic formulation strive to accommodate the tragic view (and others) rather than demonizing or directly opposing them? Live *and let live*, isn't it? Frank -----Original Message----- >From: Richard Kerridge <r.kerridge@bathspa.ac.uk> >Sent: Sep 24, 2008 9:28 AM >To: asle@interversity.org, asle@interversity.org >Subject: Re: [asle] Comedy of Survival > >I've always found Meeker's argument troubling because it seems so close to fatalism. Survival, mere survival, is its highest ambition. Tragedy, at least in its Romantic form, can come to fatalism from the opposite direction, accepting death and the loss of the world because the world is not worthy of the Romantic idealist. I'm not sure either provides the right framing for environmentalism. > >Richard Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? --Mary Oliver
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