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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818470003321

Autore

Lambropoulos Vassilis <1953->

Titolo

The tragic idea / / Vassilis Lambropoulos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Bloomsbury, , [2006]

©2006

ISBN

1-84966-761-6

1-84966-762-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Collana

Classical inter/faces

Disciplina

809.2512

Soggetti

Tragedy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-156) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Friedrich Nietzsche (1872)""""Maurice Maeterlinck (1896)""; ""Sigmund Freud (1900)""; ""Fyodor Sologub (1908)""; ""Georg Simmel (1911)""; ""Georg Lukács (1911)""; ""Vyachislav Ivanov (1912)""; ""Miguel de Unamuno (1913)""; ""Max Scheler (1915)""; ""Oswald Spengler (1918)""; ""Franz Rosenzweig (1921)""; ""Walter Benjamin (1928)""; ""Joseph Wood Krutch (1929)""; ""Nikolai Berdyaev (1931)""; ""Martin Heidegger (1935)""; ""Epilogue""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index of Names""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""

""S""""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""

Sommario/riassunto

This radical series shows how Classical ideas and material have helped to shape the modern world. The interdisciplinary approach makes stimulating reading for all who welcome the challenge offered by new perspectives on Classical culture. Today we attribute a tragic quality to many things - works, experiences, values, events - but we forget how modern this idea is. This book traces the rise of the tragic idea from early Romanticism to late Modernism. Focusing on succinct, major statements, it maps one of the most absorbing philosophical conversations in modernity: the debate about the tragic m