What if tragedy were not merely a literary form, but the law of the world itself? In Das Tragische als Weltgesetz und der Humor als ästhetische Gestalt des Metaphysischen, Julius Bahnsen develops one of the darkest aesthetic theories of nineteenth-century German philosophy. For Bahnsen, the tragic arises from the real contradictions of existence: divided duties, fractured will, guilt without simple fault, fate without consolation, and ethical demands that cannot be reconciled. The first part examines tragic character, moral collision, peripety, catastrophe, guilt, fate, and the relation between tragedy in life and tragedy in art. The second part turns to humour, not as light entertainment, but as the aesthetic form of metaphysical insight: a way of looking back upon contradiction, suffering, and world-pain from the strange elevation of comic self-awareness. Standing between Schopenhauerian pessimism, post-Hegelian dialectics, aesthetics, ethics, and literary theory, this work is a concentrated statement of Bahnsen’s real-dialectical vision: reality is not harmonized contradiction, but contradiction itself.

Barbara Cartland was the most prolific and popular romantic author of the Twentieth Century enchanting millions of readers with her unequalled tales of pure romance, dashing heroes, beautiful heroines, and of course, her trademark happy endings.



Now, as a tribute to Her Majesty the Queen on her Diamond Jubilee and to Barbara’s enduring appeal to romantics everywhere, her publishers have launched her past collection - The Eternal Collection.



The collection includes - Elizabethan Lover, The Little Pretender, A Ghost in Monte Carlo and A Duel of Hearts which were all in circulation at the time Queen Elizabeth ascended to the throne in 1952. The books are available at the Kindle Store at Amazon.co.uk – or from Amazon.com.



Ian McCorquodale, Barbara Cartland’s son, said, “My mother would have been so delighted that modern technology can now make her glorious and timeless romances so readily available to new generations of readers all over the world.” weniger anzeigen expand_less