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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826305603321

Titolo

Philosophy and tragedy / / edited by Miguel de Beistegui and Simon Sparks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

1-134-65404-9

1-280-14402-5

0-203-98175-8

1-283-60466-3

9786613917119

1-134-65405-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 pages)

Collana

Warwick studies in European philosophy

Altri autori (Persone)

SparksSimon <1970->

BeisteguiMiguel de <1966->

Disciplina

128

Soggetti

Tragic, The - History - 19th century

Philosophy, German - 19th century

Tragic, The - History - 20th century

Philosophy, German - 20th century

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Philosophy and Tragedy; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Hegel; 1. Hegel: Or the Tragedy of Thinking; 2. Self-Dissolving Seriousness: On the Comic in the Hegelian Concept of Tragedy; Part II HoĢˆlderlin; 3. Of Tragic Metaphor; 4. Tragedy and Speculation; 5. A Small Number of Houses in a Universe of Tragedy: Notes on Aristotle's and Holderlin's 'Anmerkungen'; 6. Holderlin's Theatre; Part III Nietzsche; 7. Aesthetically Limited Reason: On Nietzsche's the Birth of Tragedy; 8. Zarathustra: The Tragic Figure of the Last Philosopher

Part IV Heidegger 9. A 'Scarcely Pondered Word'. The Place of Tragedy: Heidegger, Aristotle, Sophocles; Part V Benjamin; 10. Fatalities: Freedom and the Question of Language in Walter Benjamin's Reading of Tragedy; Part VI Last Words; 11. Aphasia: Or the Last Word; Index



Sommario/riassunto

From Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Poetics to Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, the theme of tragedy has been subject to radically conflicting philosophical interpretations. Despite being at the heart of philosophical debate from Ancient Greece to the Nineteenth Century, however, tragedy has yet to receive proper treatment as a philosophical tradition in its own right. Philosophy and Tragedy is a compelling contribution to that oversight and the first book to address the topic in a major way. Eleven new essays by internationally renowned philosophers