Genealogy of the Tragic : Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy /

Joshua Billings.
Bok · Engelsk · 2014 · Electronic books.

Omfang	1 online resource (279 p.)
Opplysninger	Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Note on Translations, Citations, and Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION: Tragedy and Philosophy around 1800; TRAGIC MODERNITIES; CHAPTER 1: Quarreling over Tragedy; Ancients and Moderns on Tragedy; Nach Athen: Literary Models in Germany; CHAPTER 2: The Antiquity of Tragedy; Guillaume Dubois de Rochefort: Tragedy and Cultural Difference; Johann Gottfried Herder: Tragedy for the Volk; Returns to the Greek: Translation, Philology, Performance; TRAGIC THEMES; CHAPTER 3: Revolutionary Freedom; The Tragic Sublime: Schiller and Schelling. - Schiller's System of Tragic FreedomCriticism and Scholarship: A. W. Schlegel and Gottfried Hermann; CHAPTER 4: Greek and Modern Tragedy; Friedrich Schlegel: Nature, Art, Revolution; Schiller: "The Limits of Ancient and Modern Tragedy"; Schelling: Identity and History in the Philosophy of Art; CHAPTER 5: Tragic Theologies; A Poetic Religion; "Problems of Fate": "The Spirit of Christianity" and Empedocles; The Power of the Sacrifice: The Natural Law Essay; TRAGIC TEXTS; CHAPTER 6: Hegel's Phenomenology: The Fate of Tragedy; The Ethical World of Tragedy; Error and Recognition. - Tragic Knowing and ForgettingThe End of Tragedy; CHAPTER 7: Hölderlin's Sophocles: Tragedy and Paradox; Tragedy and Vaterland; Sophocles, Ancient and Modern; "The Lawful Calculus"; "The Boldest Moment"; Vaterländische Umkehr; EXODOS: Births of the Tragic; Bibliography; Index. - Why did Greek tragedy and "the tragic" come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity? And how has this belief affected modern understandings of Greek drama? In Genealogy of the Tragic, Joshua Billings answers these and related questions by tracing the emergence of the modern theory of the tragic, which was first developed around 1800 by thinkers associated with German Idealism. The book argues that the idea of the tragic arose in response to a new consciousness of history in the late eighteenth century, which spurred theorists to see Greek tragedy as both a unique, historically rem. - Specialized.
Emner	Greek drama (Tragedy) - Themes, motives. Tragedy - History and criticism.
Sjanger	Electronic books.
Dewey	882.0109162
ISBN	978 0-691-17636-1. - 9781-4008-5250-1