The Tragic Middle links the philosophical texts of Aristotle with the tragic dramas of Racine and Euripides to show that tragic heroism results from a conflict between two ways of approaching a problem: a practical, ethical approach based on compromise and middle ground (Aristotle's "golden mean"), and a theoretical approach that rejects ambivalence and admits only mutually exclusive solutions (the law of the "excluded middle," found in...
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