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The passion of infinity [[electronic resource] ] : Kierkegaard, Aristotle and the rebirth of tragedy / / Daniel Greenspan



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Autore: Greenspan Daniel Visualizza persona
Titolo: The passion of infinity [[electronic resource] ] : Kierkegaard, Aristotle and the rebirth of tragedy / / Daniel Greenspan Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 p.)
Disciplina: 128/.3
Soggetto topico: Tragedy
Soggetto non controllato: Aristotle
Kierkegaard, Søren
Madness
Moral Psychology
Tragedy
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-326) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Ancient Greece -- Chapter 1. Reason and the Irrational: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus -- Chapter 2. Literature and Moral Psychology: From Homer to Sophocles -- Chapter 3. Aristotle's Poetics: Oedipus and the Problem of Tragedy -- Chapter 4. Psuche Redux: Philosophy and the New Psychology -- Chapter 5. Psychologizing Oedipus: Reason and Unreason in Aristotle's Ethics -- Part II Golden Age Denmark -- Chapter 6. Tragedy as Historical Idea: Either/Or's "Ancient Drama Reflected in the Modern" -- Chapter 7. Stages on Life's Way: Hamartia after Modernity -- Chapter 8. Fear and Trembling: Tragedy, Comedy and the Heroism of Abraham -- Chapter 9. The Concept of Anxiety: Fate and the Tragic Logos of Second Ethics -- Chapter 10. Moral Psychology in the Pseudonyms, Search for a Method -- Chapter 11. Ethics Contra Ethics: Climacus on Eternal Happiness and Tragic Virtue -- Chapter 12. Kierkegaard and the Tragedy of Authorship -- Backmatter
Sommario/riassunto: The Passion of Infinity generates a historical narrative surrounding the concept of the irrational as a threat which rational culture has made a series of attempts to understand and relieve. It begins with a reading of Sophocles' Oedipus as the paradigmatic figure of a reason that, having transgressed its mortal limit, becomes catastrophically reversed. It then moves through Aristotle's ethics, psychology and theory of tragedy, which redefine reason's collapses in moral-psychological rather than religious terms. By changing the way in which the irrational is conceived, and the nature of its relation to reason, Aristotle eliminates the concept of an irrationality which reason cannot in principle dissolve. The book culminates in an extensive reading of Kierkegaard's pseudonyms, who, in a critical retrieval of both Greek tragedy and Aristotle, prescribe their apparently pathological age a paradoxical task: develop a finite form of subjectivity willing to undergo an unthinkable thought - allow the transcendence of a god to enter into the mind as well as the marrow, to make a tragic appearance in which a limit to the immanence of human reason can again be established.
Titolo autorizzato: The passion of infinity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-39725-0
9786613397256
3-11-021117-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910808063403321
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Serie: Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series