How Barack Obama becomes a tragic hero of our times

January 19, 2017 13:32

In his famous existentialist essay The Tragic Sense of Life, the Spanish philosopher, novelist, poet and academic Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) describes people's concern with their legacy as a "tremendous struggle to singularise ourselves, to survive in some way in the memory of others and of posterity. It is this struggle that gives tone, colour, and character to our society."

The desire to bequeath a lasting legacy is a trait of most politicians. But a theoretical construct of what constitutes legacy is never quite satisfactorily arrived at... says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar in his latest post on Rediff Blogs.

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