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series: meta;148
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| comedy in a pre babel context, what might be characterized as the 'absurd' : kierkegaard's abraham being then the [comic] hero 'resigned' to sacrifice his son but simultaneously with faith 'on the strength of the absurd' that isaac will be given back to him, he thus receives isaac back in rejoicing, the fact of which not at all compromises the fact that he previously fully intended to sacrifice isaac : this must be the anti-tragic [comic] hero, acting 'on the strength of the absurd' : because this simultaneous resignation and faith is best attempted to be fathomed without respect to time, again eliminating theta, the is one central image to the elastic proof : this comic hero, with concurrent resignation and faith, is more powerul in an obvious way than the tragic hero, who makes a bad decision and is thereby ruined : if the lost aristotle manuscript concerning comedy that eco fictionalized indeed explained this kierkegaardian 'strength of the absurd,' contemporary poetics might be a different place : but rather than consider agamemnon as did kierkegaard, in constructing the elastic proof we are not constrained by the desire to compare like circumstances and so we should consider oedipus, the canonical tragic hero : |
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