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Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/3/487/1301588/487billings.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 mathematical constructions, reject Whig historiography (“the history of com- putational perfection”), and open paths for the future (“we are not at the end of the history of numbers”). By looking for the intelligence of actors— by treating actors politely, as Isabelle Stengers would say— the researcher renders himself and his readers more intelligent. Sharing intelligence between the actors and the researcher, the predicate of the first becoming that of that second and vice versa, is a sign of successful work in social science. Hence the importance of Chrisoma- lis’s short but powerful utterance on page 46. — Thibault De Meyer doi 10.1215/0961754X-9522447 Simon Critchley, Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (New York: Pantheon, 2019), 336 pp. Who is the “us” of this book’s title? A riddle, perhaps, for Oedipus. Tragedy is, in Critchley’s most sweeping formulation, “a genealogy of who we are, an account of our origins and how the curse of the past can unknowingly take shape in the present, and we don’t see it and we rage when we are told what it is.” The riddle only deepens. Tragedy shows us “who we are,” but who is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

Billings, Joshua
Common Knowledge , Volume 27 (3) – Aug 1, 2021
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/3/487/1301588/487billings.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 mathematical constructions, reject Whig historiography (“the history of com- putational perfection”), and open paths for the future (“we are not at the end of the history of numbers”). By looking for the intelligence of actors— by treating actors politely, as Isabelle Stengers would say— the researcher renders himself and his readers more intelligent. Sharing intelligence between the actors and the researcher, the predicate of the first becoming that of that second and vice versa, is a sign of successful work in social science. Hence the importance of Chrisoma- lis’s short but powerful utterance on page 46. — Thibault De Meyer doi 10.1215/0961754X-9522447 Simon Critchley, Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (New York: Pantheon, 2019), 336 pp. Who is the “us” of this book’s title? A riddle, perhaps, for Oedipus. Tragedy is, in Critchley’s most sweeping formulation, “a genealogy of who we are, an account of our origins and how the curse of the past can unknowingly take shape in the present, and we don’t see it and we rage when we are told what it is.” The riddle only deepens. Tragedy shows us “who we are,” but who is

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