Tragedy and Philosophy: A Parallel History: by Agnes Heller, edited by John Grumley, David Roberts, and Pauline Johnson, Leiden, Brill, 2021, 125 pp., €90.00 (cloth).

Tragedy and Philosophy: A Parallel History: by Agnes Heller, edited by John Grumley, David Roberts, and Pauline Johnson, Leiden, Brill, 2021, 125 pp., €90.00 (cloth) As with tragedy, Heller has a very specific idea of what counts as philosophy: "Just as tragedy was replaced by serious dramas ... so the holistic transparent philosophical systems were replaced by philosophical fragments" (17). While tragedy in the bad-news sense is universal, tragedy in Heller's sense is a literary form that has developed only under particular historical conditions - namely, when "the times are out of joint", in Shakespeare's phrase. [Extracted from the article]