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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 pages)
• Disciplina: 128
• Soggetto topico: Tragic, The - History - 19th century; Philosophy, German - 19th century; Tragic, The - History - 20th century; Philosophy, German - 20th century
• Altri autori: SparksSimon <1970-> BeisteguiMiguel de <1966->
• 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 Hölderlin; 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Philosophy and tragedy
• ISBN: 1-134-65404-9; 1-280-14402-5; 0-203-98175-8; 1-283-60466-3; 9786613917119; 1-134-65405-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826305603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Warwick studies in European philosophy.