Philosophy and Tragedy / Edition 1

by Simon Sparks, Miguel de Beistegui

Overview

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 clearly show how time and again, major thinkers have returned to tragedy in many of their key works. Philosophy and Tragedy aks why it is that thinkers as far apart as Hegel and Benjamin should make tragedy such an important theme in their work, and why, after Kant, an important strand of philosophy should present itself tragically. From Heidegger's reading of Sophocles' Antigone to Nietzsche and Benjamin's book-length studies of tragedy, Philosophy and Tragedy presents an outstanding and original study of this preoccupation.
The five sections are organised clearly around five major philosophers: Hegel, Holderlin, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Benjamin

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415191425
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/16/1999
Series:	Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Miguel de Beistegui is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick.,
Simon Sparks is Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of Strasbourg.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Miguel de Beistegui, Simon Sparks; Part 1 Hegel; Chapter 1 Hegel, Miguel de Beistegui; Chapter 2 Self-dissolving seriousness, Rodolphe Gasché; Part 2 Hölderlin; Chapter 3 Of tragic metaphor, Jean-François Courtine; Chapter 4 Tragedy and speculation, Françoise Dastur; Chapter 5 A small number of houses in a universe of tragedy, David Farrell Krell; Chapter 6 Hölderlin’s theatre, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe; Part 3 Nietzsche; Chapter 7 Aesthetically limited reason, Günter Figal; Chapter 8 Zarathustra, Walter Brogan; Part 4 Heidegger; Chapter 9 A ‘scarcely pondered word’. The place of tragedy, Will McNeill; Part 5 Benjamin; Chapter 10 Fatalities, Simon Sparks; Part 6 Last Words; Chapter 11 Aphasia, Marc Froment-Meurice;