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Author: Kenneth Glazer
Publisher: University Press of America
Imprint: Hamilton Books
Dimensions:
Width: 15.30cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 22.70cm
Weight: 0.581kg
ISBN: 9780761870456
ISBN 10: 0761870458
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 15 September 2018
Audience:
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Written in a jaunty, down-to-earth style, ballasted by a solid grounding in the vast store of accumulated wisdom and scholarly commentary inspired by Sophocles' tragedy, Kenneth Glazer's Searching for Oedipus is at once the culmination of one man's lifelong quest to discover for himself the meanings of the classic story of the `circular detective' and a valuable starting point for future investigators setting out on their own personal and intellectual journeys in Oedipus's swollen footsteps. -- Peter L. Rudnytsky, University of Florida and Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, author of Freud and Oedipus
Written in a jaunty, down-to-earth style, ballasted by a solid grounding in the vast store of accumulated wisdom and scholarly commentary inspired by Sophocles' tragedy, Kenneth Glazer's Searching for Oedipus is at once the culmination of one man's lifelong quest to discover for himself the meanings of the classic story of the `circular detective' and a valuable starting point for future investigators setting out on their own personal and intellectual journeys in Oedipus's swollen footsteps. -- Peter L. Rudnytsky, University of Florida and Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, author of Freud and Oedipus In this stunningly broad and creative book about the most brilliant and enigmatic Greek drama, Ken Glazer, a practicing lawyer, examines Oedipus the King from every angle-as a circular detective story, a study of self-ignorance and the power of the past, and an inquiry into the nature of fate, heroism, ethical choice, and tragedy itself. Intriguing parallels illuminate his intellectual journey, from Woody Allen, Nietzsche and Socrates to Hamlet, Harry Potter, and the Dunning-Kruger effect. Part autobiography, part masterful summation of centuries of scholarship and reception, this engagingly written quest is for anybody who ever wondered why the Oedipus story fascinates us, proving the truth of Glazer's observation: Sophocles play is too great to be left to specialists alone. -- Richard Martin, Stanford University
Author Information
Kenneth Glazer has practiced law for many years after graduating from UC Berkeley, where he studied history and philosophy, and Stanford University Law School.
