1st Edition

Philosophy and Tragedy

Edited By Simon Sparks, Miguel de Beistegui Copyright 2000
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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;

Biography

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.