Destiny Domesticated : The Rebirth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Technology.

Intro -- 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.

Analyzes contemporary technological society through the lens of Greek tragedy.

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