This handbook focuses on the relationship between law and tragedy. It shows how tragedy's capacity to stage complex, conflicting forces in human existence offers a rich source of insight into law and politics. Approaching tragedy not merely as a literary genre, but as a mode of understanding conflict, finitude, responsibility, judgment, and political order, the volume demonstrates how tragic thought can deepen our understanding of legal and political concepts, contemporary legal systems, and institutional structures. This book addresses various aspects of tragedy from tragic literature to tragic philosophy, from antiquity to the present, from phenomenology to theory on legal adjudication and democratic decision-making. Scholars of law, philosophy, theater, and literature alike will appreciate the book's conversational ability to explore the knowledge and sense of presence we gain through a cultivated understanding of the tragic.
