Zapffe On The Tragic Pdf «VERIFIED»

Peter Wessel Zapffe ’s philosophical work on the tragic, primarily articulated in his 1933 essay The Last Messiah and expanded in his 1941 doctoral dissertation On the Tragic

At the heart of Zapffe’s thought is the idea that human consciousness has outpaced its biological utility. While other animals live in a state of immediate presence, humans are burdened by the ability to look backward into the past and forward into an inevitable death. zapffe on the tragic pdf