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Title Tragedy and the idea of modernity / Joshua Billings and Miriam Leonard
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 354 pages)
Series Classical presences
Classical presences.
Contents Part I. Tragic poetics -- Part II. Tragic cultures -- Part III. Tragic canons
Jacob Bernays and the catharsis of modernity / James I. Porter -- The aesthetics of tragedy : romantic perspectives / Chrstoph Menke -- Paradoxon : on the sublimity of tragedy in Hölderlin and some contemporaries / Ian Balfour -- Tragedy and trauerspiel : too alike? / Samuel Weber -- Leben und Glück : modernity and tragedy in Walter Benjamin, Hölderlin, and Sophocles / Andrew Benjamin -- Tragedy with and without religion : Hegelian thoughts / Terry Pinkard -- The (operatic) tragedy of culture : notes on a theme in Kierkegaard, Hebbel, and Wagner / Rüdiger Görner -- Heidegger's Antigone : ethics and politics / Katie Fleming -- Carl Schmitt : tragedy and the intrusion of history / Miriam Leonard -- The tragic voice of Pascal Quignard / John T. Hamilton -- The ends of tragedy : Schelling, Hegel, and Oedipus / Simon Goldhill -- The tragedy of misrecognition : the desire for a Catholic Shakespeare and a Hegel's Hamlet / Simon Critchley -- Margins of genre : Walter Benjamin and the idea of tragedy / Joshua Billings -- Williams on Nietzsche on the Greeks / Robert B. Pippin -- Epilogue : tragedy and modernity, closing thoughts / Michael Silk
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 21, 2015)
Subject Greek drama (Tragedy) -- Philosophy
Modernism (Literature)
DRAMA -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Modernism (Literature)
Griechisch
Tragödie
Rezeption
Philosophie
Literatur
Grekiska tragedier -- teori, filosofi.
Modernism (litteratur)
Deutschland
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Billings, Joshua, 1985- editor.
Leonard, Miriam, editor.
ISBN 9780191800672
0191800678
9780191043635
019104363X