Podcast: Professor Daniel Mendelsohn Talks About His Upcoming Book Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate, and the Threat the Pandemic and Economic Crisis Pose to the Study of the Humanities
“At a national level, we’ve been acting for so many years as if what we were doing would never have consequences, in our political lives, in our attitude toward the environment, race, everything, and now it’s exploding all simultaneously, and that is sort of Sophoclean,” Professor Mendelsohn tells the Quarantine Tapes podcast with Paul Holdengraber. “This is what tragedy is interested in. It’s interested the return of everything that you thought you could evade, and, for that reason, I think, so to speak, we’re in a very Greek moment, or one that the Greeks would have understood.”
Post Date: 09-15-2020
Post Date: 09-15-2020