How does Tragedy complement the philosophical life?

A recent spate of books, produced for a popular readership, have endeavored to introduce the sometimes complex ideas of ancient Stoicism to a modern readership. These tracts, like The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday, tie Stoic ideas into a neatly digestible bundle for hard-working modern financiers, all the while eliding over the deep cultural distance between the worlds of ancient Rome and the modern West (or, indeed, anywhere).

This prescription is, for Critchley, itself a source of needless hardship. In the Greek genre of tragic drama, Critchley finds…

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