Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 594 g
Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 594 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-872779-8
Verlag: ACADEMIC
From around 1800, particularly in Germany, Greek tragedy has been privileged in popular and scholarly discourse for its relation to apparently timeless metaphysical, existential, ethical, aesthetic, and psychological questions. As a major concern of modern philosophy, it has fascinated thinkers including Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger. Such theories have arguably had a more profound influence on modern understanding of the genre than works of classical scholarship or theatrical performances.
Tragedy and the Idea of Modernity considers this tradition of philosophy in relation to the ancient Greek works themselves, and mediates between the concerns of classicists and those of intellectual historians and philosophers. The volume is organized into sections treating issues of poetics, politics and culture, and canonicity, and contributions by an interdisciplinary range of scholars consider themes of catharsis, the sublime, politics, and reconciliation, spanning 2,500 years of literature and philosophy. Although firmly anchored in the classical tradition, the volume suggests that the tradition of philosophical thought concerning tragedy has a major place in understandings both of ancient tragedy and of modernity itself.
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- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Part 1: Tragic Poetics
- 1: James I. Porter: Jacob Bernays and the Catharsis of Modernity
- 2: Christoph Menke: The Aesthetics of Tragedy: Romantic Perspectives
- 3: Ian Balfour: Paradoxon: On the Sublimity of Tragedy in Hölderlin and Some Contemporaries
- 4: Samuel Weber: Tragedy and Trauerspiel: Too Alike?
- 5: Andrew Benjamin: Leben und Glück: Modernity and Tragedy in Walter Benjamin, Hölderlin, and Sophocles
- Part 2: Tragic Cultures
- 6: Terry Pinkard: Tragedy With and Without Religion: Hegelian Thoughts
- 7: Rüdiger Görner: The (Operatic) Culture: Notes on a Theme in Kierkegaard, Hebbel, and Wagner
- 8: Katie Fleming: Heidigger's Antigone: Ethics and Politics
- 9: Miriam Leonard: Carl Schmitt: Tragedy and the Intrusion of History
- 10: John Hamilton: The Tragic Voice of Pascal Quignard
- Part 3: Tragic Canons
- 11: Simon Goldhill: The Ends of Tragedy: Schelling, Hegel, and Oedipus
- 12: Simon Critchley: The Tragedy of Misrecognition: The Desire for a Catholic Shakespeare and Hegel's Hamlet
- 13: Joshua Billings: Margins of Genre: Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Tragedy
- 14: Robert B. Pippin: Williams on Nietzsche on the Greeks
- Tragedy and Modernity: Closing Thoughts
- Appendix: Translation of Part II of Jakob Bernays 'Cartharsis'
- Index
