The Tragic

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  1. Reimagining the Future: Comedy and Hope.Russell Ford & H. Peter Steeves - 2023 - In Ramona Mosse & Anna Street (eds.), Genre Transgressions: Dialogues on Tragedy and Comedy. Routledge. pp. 147-164.
    This wide-ranging conversation explores the potential of comedy to effect social change; the connections and disconnections between comedy and tragedy; the problem of laughter, humor, and ridicule; and the power of feminist humor.
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  2. La scène originelle de l'esprit: la pensée tragique.Amar Fernandes - 2022 - Paris: L'Harmattan.
    Si le tragique n'est pas le propre de la tragédie grecque mais bien celui de 'l'être au monde de l'homme', sa conceptualisation n'advient qu'avec Wilderlin lorsque celui-ci s'approprie la question 'Comment lit-on la tragédie?', non plus selon son acception poétique, mais en tant que forme philosophique. Et si l'on suit sa réflexion, à la question 'Qu'est-ce que le tragique?', on notera qu'il est une façon d'être au monde de manière spéculative. L'union des contraires, de la poésie et de la sagesse, (...)
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  3. Tragedy as a Symbol of Autonomy in Schiller’s Aesthetics.Timothy Stoll - 2022 - British Journal of Aesthetics 63 (1):25-39.
    Schiller’s essays on tragedy attempt to argue that tragic experience is ethically valuable by forging a connection with Kant’s conception of autonomy. Standard interpretations hold that the connection lies in the fact that tragedies depict characters (primarily the hero) exercising autonomy. This paper argues that Schiller also views the experience prompted by tragedy as itself involving autonomy. Drawing on Kant’s discussion of aesthetic “symbols”, Schiller holds that the audience members’ experience at the tragedy is isomorphic with the autonomous exercise of (...)
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  4. The Aesthetic Value of the World.Tom Cochrane - 2021 - Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
    This book defends Aestheticism- the claim that everything is aesthetically valuable and that a life lived in pursuit of aesthetic value can be a particularly good one. Furthermore, in distilling aesthetic qualities, artists have a special role to play in teaching us to recognize values; a critical component of virtue. I ground my account upon an analysis of aesthetic value as ‘objectified final value’, which is underwritten by an original psychological claim that all aesthetic values are distal versions of practical (...)
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  5. Sul far del crepuscolo: il destino della filosofia dalla tragedia alla dialettica.Antonio De Simone - 2021 - Milano: Mimesis.
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  6. Les matins de l'esprit.Clement Rosset - 2021 - [Paris]: Éditions Les Belles Lettres.
    Mais quelle est la source de cette force qui nous laisse sans peur devant la source de la peur, sans desarroi devant la source du desarroi? A quelle puissance la joie trouve-t-elle soudain cette force qui lui permet de resister a l'effet corrosif d'une tragedie a laquelle elle s'expose? Telle est la question essentielle a laquelle nous devons enfin proposer une reponse. Voici ce dont un Clement Rosset d'a peine 21 ans rapporte l'experience et l'analyse dans cet essai inedit qui (...)
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  7. Zhongguo xian dai bei ju guan nian yan jiu lun ji.Jie Wang - 2021 - Hangzhou: Zhejiang da xue chu ban she. Edited by Xinyu He.
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  8. Sham ruins: a user's guide.Brian Willems - 2021 - New York, NY: Routledge.
    In the middle of the 18th century, a new fad found its way into the gardens of England's well-to-do: building fake Gothic ruins. Newly constructed castle towers and walls looked like they were already falling apart, even on the first day of their creation. Made of stone, plaster, or even canvas, these "sham ruins" are often considered an embarrassing blip in English architectural history. However, Sham Ruins: A User's Guide expands the specific example of the sham ruin into a general (...)
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  9. Kierkegaard and the tragic: aesthetic entries into the concepts of modernity, self, and freedom.Kristian Bunkenborg - 2020 - København: Afdeling for Systematisk Teologi, Det Teologiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet.
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  10. Tragedy, the Greeks, and us.Simon Critchley - 2019 - New York: Pantheon Books.
    From the curator of The New York Times's "The Stone," a provocative and timely exploration into tragedy--how it articulates conflicts and contradiction that we need to address in order to better understand the world we live in. We might think we are through with the past, but the past isn't through with us. Tragedy permits us to come face to face with what we do not know about ourselves but that which makes those selves who we are. Having Been Born (...)
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  11. Per una filosofia del tragico: tragedie greche, vita filosofica e altre vocazioni al dionisiaco.Alessandra Filannino Indelicato - 2019 - Milano: Mimesis.
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  12. Tragedy as philosophy in the Reformation world.Russ Leo - 2019 - Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
    Tragedy as Philosophy in the Reformation World' examines how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, theologians, and humanist critics turned to tragedy to understand providence and agencies human and divine in the crucible of the Reformation. Rejecting familiar assumptions about tragedy, vital figures like Philipp Melanchthon, David Pareus, Lodovico Castelvetro, John Rainolds, and Daniel Heinsius developed distinctly philosophical ideas of tragedy,irreducible to drama or performance, inextricable from rhetoric, dialectic, and metaphysics. In its proximity to philosophy, tragedy afforded careful readers crucial insight into (...)
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  13. Atleti del fuoco: undici studi tra arte, tragedia e rivolta.Lorenzo Chiuchiù - 2018 - Milano: Mimesis. Edited by Lorenzo Chiuchiù.
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  14. Comedy and Tragedy as Two Sides of the Same Coin: Reversal and Incongruity as Sources of Insight.Eva Dadlez & Daniel Lüthi - 2018 - Journal of Aesthetic Education 52 (2):81.
    In Umberto Eco’s classic novel The Name of the Rose, we are introduced to a decidedly Platonic fear of laughter. According to the blind librarian Jorge de Burgos, “[l]aughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh. It is the peasant’s entertainment, the drunkard’s license;... laughter remains base, a defense for the simple, a mystery desecrated for the plebeians.”1 Laughter could not accompany insight or clarity or revelation. By destroying the last known copy of the second part of Aristotle’s Poetics, (...)
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  15. L'estetica del vero.Cristina Muccioli - 2018 - Novate Milanese (MI): Prospero editore.
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  16. Tragedia y sociología.Ramón Ramos Torre - 2018 - Madrid: CIS.
    «¿Podemos leer trágicamente el mundo social contemporáneo? ¿Tendría sentido hacerlo? ¿Deberíamos? En los trabajos reunidos en este libro se insiste en dar una respuesta afirmativa a los tres interrogantes». Efectivamente, la presente compilación de escritos aparecidos en revistas y libros pone de manifiesto el itinerario unitario desarrollado por Ramón Ramosen pos de un objetivo: «el de pensar y reconstruir la tradición sociológica en el plano de sus relaciones con lo trágico para reivindicar su pertinencia actual, en unos tiempos marcados por (...)
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  17. A IMAGEM DO ABSOLUTO: HEGEL E A TRAGÉDIA DA VIDA ÉTICA EM EUMÊNIDES, DE ÉSQUILO.Wilson Franck Junior - 2017 - In Douglas João Orben, Everton Maciel, Jaderson Borges Lessa & Leandro Cordioli (eds.), A INVENÇÃO DA MODERNIDADE.
    A tragédia de Orestes, escrita pelo tragediógrafo grego Ésquilo, influenciou decisivamente o pensamento ético-político de Hegel. Em seu ensaio sobre o Direito Natural (1802-1803), o filósofo alemão associa seu conceito de absoluto com sua interpretação da tragédia grega, ato com o qual expõe sua concepção da vida ética absoluta, dando continuidade à ideia que havia esboçado, no âmbito teológico, em "O Espírito do cristianismo e seu destino", i.e., a de que o destino e a justiça trágica forneceriam os termos de (...)
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  18. Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger, Vorlesungen über Ästhetik.Giovanna Pinna (ed.) - 2017 - Hamburg, Germany: Felix Meiner Verlag.
    The first commented edition of K.W.F. Solger's Vorlesungen über Ästhetik (1819), edited by Giovanna Pinna.
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  19. New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre.Martin Shuster - 2017 - University of Chicago Press.
    Even though it’s frequently asserted that we are living in a golden age of scripted television, television as a medium is still not taken seriously as an artistic art form, nor has the stigma of television as “chewing gum for the mind” really disappeared. -/- Philosopher Martin Shuster argues that television is the modern art form, full of promise and urgency, and in New Television, he offers a strong philosophical justification for its importance. Through careful analysis of shows including The (...)
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  20. Seier gjennom nederlag.Hilde Vinje - 2017 - Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 52 (4):146-159.
    This paper is a revised version of the essay that won the Zapffe Prize in 2017. -/- In «The Last Messiah» and On the tragic, Peter Wessel Zapffe suggests that humankind should cease to reproduce, as the meaning of life cannot be found and human life at its best is tragic. The theory has been criticized for assuming that the meaning of life must be explained by an external cause and implicitly asks for an infinite causal chain. In this paper, (...)
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  21. Forbidden Aesthetics, Ethical Justice, and Terror in Modern Western Culture.Emmanouil Aretoulakis - 2016 - Langham: Lexington Books.
    The book explores the forbidden feelings of beauty, admiration, or satisfaction before instances of terror and human pain from eighteenth-century natural disasters to twenty-first-century terrorist destruction. It explores the fascination felt by the subject witnessing major disasters directly or in a mediated fashion. Emmanouil Aretoulakis' makes the challenging proposition that there is, paradoxically, an ethics in the aesthetic appraisal of terror.
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  22. A philosophy of tragedy.Christopher Hamilton - 2016 - London: Reaktion Books.
    A Philosophy of Tragedy explores the tragic condition of man in modernity. Nietzsche knew it, as have countless characters in literature, and the modern age places us squarely before it: the sheer contingency and instability of our existence, our homelssness, our unredeemed suffering, our fractured relation to morality. Christopher Hamilton draws as much on literature, including the tragic theatre, as on philosophy to offer a stirring account of our tragic state. In doing so he explores the nature of philosophy itself, (...)
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  23. Resonanzen des Tragischen: zwischen Ereignis und Affekt.Nicole Haitzinger - 2015 - Wien: Verlag Turia + Kant.
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  24. Tragic Modernities.Miriam Leonard - 2015 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
    Under the microscope of recent scholarship the universality of Greek tragedy has started to fade, as particularities of Athenian culture have come into focus. Miriam Leonard contests the idea of the death of tragedy and argues powerfully for the continued vitality and viability of Greek tragic theater in the central debates of contemporary culture.
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  25. Listening to many voices: Athenian tragedy as popular art.William Allan & Adrian Kelly - 2013 - In Anna Marmodoro & Jonathan Hill (eds.), The Author's Voice in Classical and Late Antiquity. Oxford University Press. pp. 77.
    By analysing how the audience interpreted the many voices of tragic performance, this chapter suggests a new model for understanding tragedy’s relationship to the world of the watching community. Although the idea that the poet expresses his personal opinions through the chorus or his characters is now rightly seen as old-fashioned and naïve, it is still legitimate to ask how the poet uses his heroic characters and their voices to speak to his contemporary audience—using ‘speak to’ in the broadest sense, (...)
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  26. Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza et la question de l'effacement du tragique.Myriam Morvan - 2013 - Paris: L'Harmattan.
    Le tragique n'est pas uniquement à l'Age classique une catégorie théâtrale ; il est également un concept philosophique, et si pour des auteurs comme Corneille ou Racine, il est une donnée littéraire reçue de l'Antiquité, il est chez des philosophes comme Descartes, Pascal ou Spinoza, un concept à construire ou à élaborer. Cette relation idéale entre hommes de théâtre et philosophes a un enjeu important : quelles solutions apporter au tragique?
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  27. The Smile of Tragedy: Nietzsche and the Art of Virtue.M. Murelli - 2013 - British Journal of Aesthetics (4):ays089.
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  28. The Philosophy of Tragedy: From Plato to Žižek.Julian Young - 2013 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    This book is a full survey of the philosophy of tragedy from antiquity to the present. From Aristotle to Žižek the focal question has been: why, in spite of its distressing content, do we value tragic drama? What is the nature of the 'tragic effect'? Some philosophers point to a certain kind of pleasure that results from tragedy. Others, while not excluding pleasure, emphasize the knowledge we gain from tragedy - of psychology, ethics, freedom or immortality. Through a critical engagement (...)
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  29. The Theater of the Metaxu: Staging the Between. [REVIEW]William Desmond - 2011 - Topoi 30 (2):113-124.
    Human life is defined between diverse extremes: birth and death, nothing and infinity. Theater tries to stage something of this between-being and bring it out of its recess in everyday life. What can be called a metaxological philosophy can illuminate this between-condition. “ Metaxu ” is the Greek word for “between,” while “ logos ” can mean an accounting, or reasoning, or wording. A metaxological philosophy of the theatre would look on it as staging the between . Can we say (...)
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  30. Mixed Feelings, Mixed Metaphors: Hume On Tragic Pleasure: Articles.Amyas Merivale - 2011 - British Journal of Aesthetics 51 (3):259-269.
    The principle with which Hume accounts for the seemingly unaccountable pleasure that we take in tragic drama is placed in its theoretical context, and the various metaphors that Hume uses in describing this principle are examined. These metaphors are then brought to bear on an interpretative controversy concerning the result of Hume's principle for the subordinate passion. It is argued that, while Hume's considered position should have been that this passion is destroyed at the end of the process, it is (...)
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  31. L'attualità del tragico: un percorso filosofico.Andrea Mariotti Geuna - 2010 - Milano: AlboVersorio.
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  32. Cultura contemporánea y pensamiento trágico.Joaquín Esteban Ortega (ed.) - 2009 - Valladolid: Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes, Servicio de Publicaciones.
    Durante el año 2008, el Seminario de Sociedad y Cultura Contemporáneas de nuestra universidad quiso celebrar un ciclo de conferencias sobre la actualidad de lo trágico. Nuestra convicción era que la cultura contemporánea volvía a necesitar la voz y la energía del pensamiento de la tragedia, después de que estas hubieran sido interesadamente neutralizadas en los últimos tiempos. Para este proyecto, se contó con la presencia de toda una autoridad mundial en esta área, Sergio Givone, así como con reputados profesores (...)
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  33. Drama.James R. Hamilton - 2009 - In Higgins Davies (ed.), Blackwell Companion to Aesthetics.
    Hamilton explains why "drama" is a category of literature rather than of theater, even though it is appropriate to describe many theatrical performances as "dramatic." Consideration of the possibilities of theatrical performance are especially important to this category of literature, but need not be (and often are not) decisive in constraining interpretations of dramatic works.
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  34. Bei ju zhe xue de dan sheng: cong bei ju jiao du tou shi Nicai zhe xue de chang shi.Jiangsong Wang - 2009 - Beijing: Zhongguo she hui ke xue chu ban she.
    本书把尼采的全部哲学解释为悲剧哲学,从文献资料出发,分析了尼采的悲剧哲学的发展阶段和主要特点,提出了这种悲剧哲学是比黑格尔的辩证法更为彻底的辩证法的观点。.
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  35. The Meaninglessness of Coming Unstuck in Time.Martin A. Coleman - 2008 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 44 (4):pp. 681-698.
    The views of John Dewey and Kurt Vonnegut are often criticized for opposite reasons: Dewey’s philosophy is said to be naively optimistic while Vonnegut’s work is read as cynical. The standard debates over the views of the two thinkers cause readers to overlook the similarities in the way each approaches tragic experience. This paper examines Dewey’s philosophic account of time and meaning and Vonnegut’s use of time travel in his autobiographical novel Slaughterhouse-Five to illustrate these similarities. This essay demonstrates how (...)
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  36. The locus of tragedy.Arthur Cools (ed.) - 2008 - Boston: Brill.
    This book wants to open a contemporary philosophical perspective on the tragic. What is the locus of tragedy?
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  37. Insanity and genius: masks of madness and the mapping of meaning and value.Harry Edwin Eiss - 2008 - Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.
    An exploration of the greatest minds and how they have struggled to find the deepest truths about the human condition.
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  38. Katarsis: metamorfozy tragicheskogo soznanii︠a︡.V. P. Shestakov (ed.) - 2007 - Sankt-Peterburg: Aleteĭi︠a︡.
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  39. Reason's Grief: An Essay on Tragedy and Value.George W. Harris - 2006 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Reason's Grief takes W. B. Yeats's comment that we begin to live only when we have conceived life as tragedy as a call for a tragic ethics, something the modern West has yet to produce. Harris argues that we must turn away from religious understandings of tragedy and the human condition and realize that our species will occupy a very brief period of history, at some point to disappear without a trace. We must accept an ethical perspective that avoids pernicious (...)
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  40. Why the sublime can be terrible.Scott McLemee - 2006 - The Philosophers' Magazine 33:21-21.
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  41. (1 other version)Il sorriso di Antigone: frammenti per una storia del tragico moderno.Bruno Moroncini - 2004 - Napoli: Filema.
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  42. O trágico e seus rastros.Volnei Edson dos Santos (ed.) - 2004 - Londrina, PR: Eduel.
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  43. Artistic Truth: Aesthetics, Discourse, and Imaginative Disclosure.Lambert Zuidervaart - 2004 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    It is unfashionable to talk about artistic truth. Yet the issues traditionally addressed under that term have not disappeared. Indeed, questions concerning the role of the artist in society, the relationship between art and knowledge and the validity of cultural interpretation have intensified. Lambert Zuidervaart challenges intellectual fashions. He proposes a new critical hermeneutics of artistic truth that engages with both analytic and continental philosophies and illuminates the contemporary cultural scene. People turn to the arts as a way of finding (...)
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  44. Sound and Structure in the Divine Comedy. [REVIEW]Catherine Keen - 2003 - The Medieval Review 12.
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  45. Imagining the Truth: An Account of Tragic Pleasure.James Shelley - 2003 - In Matthew Kieran & Dominic Lopes (eds.), Imagination, Philosophy and the Arts. New York: Routledge. pp. 177-185.
    The problem of tragedy is the problem of explaining why tragedy gives us the pleasure that it does, given that it has the content that it has. I propose a series of constraints that any adequate solution to the problem must satisfy. Then I develop a solution to the problem that satisfies those constraints. But I do not claim that the solution I develop uniquely satisfies the constraints I propose. I aim merely to narrow the field of contending solutions, and (...)
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  46. An essay on the tragic.Peter Szondi - 2002 - Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
    Peter Szondi´s pathbreaking work is a succinct and elegant argument for distinguishing between a philosophy of the tragic and the poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle. The first of the book´s two parts consists of a series of commentaries on philosophical and aesthetic texts from twelve thinkers and poets between 1795 and 1915: Schelling, Hölderlin, Hegel, Solger, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Vischer, Kierkegaard, Hebbel, Nietzsche, Simmel, and Scheler. The various definitions of tragedy are read not so much in terms of their specific (...)
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  47. Przekroczyć estetykę: tragiczność jako kategoria transgresyjna w poezji i muzyce początku XX wieku.Romana Kolarzowa - 2000 - Kraków: Universitas.
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  48. Il demone della redenzione: tragedia, mistica e cultura da Hebbel a Lukács.Michele Cometa - 1999 - Firenze: Aletheia.
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  49. Comedy and Finitude: Displacing the Tragic‐Heroic Paradigm in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis.Simon Critchley - 1999 - Constellations 6 (1):108-122.
  50. Self-Dissolving Seriousness: On the Comic in the Hegelian Conception of Tragedy.Rodolphe Gasché - 1999 - In Simon Sparks & Miguel de Beistegui (eds.), Philosophy and Tragedy. New York: Routledge.
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