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More Flavor: Lecture Nietzsche and Simone Weil, Two Tragic Philosophers

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Friedrich Nietzsche suffered a crippling, 11-year mental breakdown before his death. Simone Weil died at 34, after refusing food in solidarity with the French Resistance. But for University of Chicago theologian David Tracy, the tragedy of these great philosophers' lives is of less interest than their shared belief that modern Western culture has lost, and must recover, the ancient Greek "tragic vision." This afternoon, Tracy discusses this way of understanding the world — the "yes-saying" to life's suffering and joy that Nietzsche first detailed in The Birth of Tragedy, and that Weil echoed decades later — and how it can empower us to fight injustice.

– Suzanne Niemoth

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