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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Prologue
When Fate Knocks
Europe—The Tragic Continent
Prometheus Bound
Fatal Signs
1. Destiny Domesticated
The Bijlmer Plane Crash
Necessity and Chance
Tragic, Christian, and Modern Providence
Living with Fate
2. Chance Living
“Who Am I? What Am I Doing Here?”
Accidental and Contingent Chance
Uncontrollable Fate
The Fragility of Happiness
3. Fatal Politics
Between Athens and Jerusalem
The Birth of Tragedy
From Antigone to Hirsi Ali
Sublime Suffering
4. The (Non-)Reproducibility of the Tragic
The Death of Tragedy
Christian and Modern “Elimination” of the Tragic
The (Post)Modern Resurrection of the Tragic
Tragic Repetition with a Difference
5. The Art of Suffering
The Sadist Universe
Fear, Pity, Catharsis
Sublimating the Sublime
The Lust of Suffering
6. Awesome Technologies
Ode to Man
Technological Ambivalence
Affirmation beyond Optimism and Pessimism
Tragic Technologies
7. Tragic Parenthood
The Savanna Case
Medea’s Daimon
The Schizophrenia of the Modern Concept of Man
Inevitable Blame
8. Fateful Machines
The Morality of “Our” Computers
Relativizing Ethics
Acting Machines
The Tragic Ethics of the Cyborg
9. Exodus
The Rebirth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Technology
Prometheus Unbound
Between Satyr and Cyborg
The Possibility of an Island
Notes
Works Cited
Name Index
Subject Index
Back Cover
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