Hegel And Greek Tragedy

Author : Martin Thibodeau
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739177297

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Hegel and Greek Tragedy by Martin Thibodeau Pdf

This study is concerned with the different interpretations of Greek tragedy proposed by G.W.F. Hegel. While Hegel's philosophical interest in tragedy as an art form is well known, the motivation for his preoccupation with this art form needs to be further explored. Indeed, why would Hegel, a pivotal figure of German idealism, be inclined to concern himself with a form of poetry that reached its peak in the 5th century B.C.' Precisely this question forms the core of this book. It articulates what the primary stakes are and thereby develop and defend the thesis that Hegel's examination of Greece and tragedy is one that has a direct bearing on the "fate" of politics in the modern world.

Author : Martin Thibodeau
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739177303

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Hegel and Greek Tragedy by Martin Thibodeau Pdf

This study is concerned with the different interpretations of Greek tragedy proposed by G.W.F. Hegel. While Hegel’s philosophical interest in tragedy as an art form is well known, the motivation for his preoccupation with this art form needs to be further explored. Indeed, why would Hegel, a pivotal figure of German idealism, be inclined to concern himself with a form of poetry that reached its peak in the 5th century B.C.? Precisely this question forms the core of this book. It articulates what the primary stakes are and thereby develop and defend the thesis that Hegel’s examination of Greece and tragedy is one that has a direct bearing on the “fate” of politics in the modern world.

Author : Agnes Heller†
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004460126

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Tragedy and Philosophy. A Parallel History by Agnes Heller† Pdf

Completed shortly before her death in 2019, Tragedy and Philosophy. A Parallel History is the sum of Agnes Heller’s reflections on European history and culture, seen through the prism of Europe’s two unique literary creations: tragedy and philosophy.

Author : Mark Alznauer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438483382

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Hegel on Tragedy and Comedy by Mark Alznauer Pdf

No philosopher has treated the subject of tragedy and comedy in as original and searching a manner as G. W. F. Hegel. His concern with these genres runs throughout both his early and late works and extends from aesthetic issues to questions in the history of society and religion. Hegel on Tragedy and Comedy is the first book to explore the full extent of Hegel's interest in tragedy and comedy. The contributors analyze his treatment of both ancient and modern drama, including major essays on Sophocles, Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Goethe, and the German comedic tradition, and examine the relation of these genres to political, religious, and philosophical issues. In addition, the volume includes several essays on the role tragedy and comedy play in Hegel's philosophy of history. This book will not only be valuable to those who wish for a general overview of Hegel's treatment of tragedy and comedy but also to those who want to understand how his treatment of these genres is connected to the rest of his thought.

Author : G. W. F. Hegel
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810124912

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Hegel on Hamann by G. W. F. Hegel Pdf

"Philosophers, theologians, and literary critics welcome Anderson's stunning translation since Hamann is gaining renewed attention, not only as a key figure of German intellectual history, but also as an early forerunner of postmodern thought. Relationships between Enlightenment, Counter Enlightenment, and Idealism come to the fore as Hegel reflects on Hamann's critiques of his contemporaries Immanuel Kant, Moses Mendelssohn, J.G. Herder, and F.H. Jacobi." "This book is essential both for readers of Hegel or Hamann and for those interested in the history of German thought, the philosophy of religion, language and hermeneutics, or friendship as a philosophical category."--Jacket.

Author : Peter Wake
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253012616

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Tragedy in Hegel's Early Theological Writings by Peter Wake Pdf

“Wake argues, the young Hegel experimented with using tragedy as a diagnostic tool to explain the rise and fall of religions and even history itself.” —Hegel Bulletin Tragedy plays a central role in Hegel’s early writings on theology and politics. Hegel’s overarching aim in these texts is to determine the kind of mythology that would best complement religious and political freedom in modernity. Peter Wake claims that, for Hegel at this early stage, ancient Greek tragedy provided the model for such a mythology and suggested a way to oppose the rigid hierarchies and authoritarianism that characterized Europe of his day. Wake follows Hegel as he develops his idea of the essence of Christianity and its relation to the distinctly tragic expression of beauty found in Greek mythology. “Elegant. Combines the virtues of close reading of extraordinary subtlety with a wide-angle scope not only to Hegel’s work as a whole, but also to the enduring value of the early work.” —Cyril J. O’Regan, University of Notre Dame “Wake’s book is provocative and helpful because it sharpens appreciation of the complexity of the material in the ETW; it brings into focus tensions and contradictions in the texts. It contributes to the recognition of the subtlety and enduring importance of this early work.” —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Author : Walter Kaufmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691020051

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Tragedy and Philosophy by Walter Kaufmann Pdf

A critical re-examination of the views of Plato, Aristotle, Hegel and Nietzsche on tragedy. Ancient Greek tragedy is revealed as surprisingly modern and experimental, while such concepts as mimesis, catharsis, hubris and the tragic collision are discussed from different perspectives.

Author : Simon Sparks,Miguel de Beistegui
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134654048

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Philosophy and Tragedy by Simon Sparks,Miguel de Beistegui Pdf

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

Author : Joshua Billings
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691176369

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Genealogy of the Tragic by Joshua Billings Pdf

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 remote form and a timeless literary genre full of meaning for the present. The book offers a new interpretation of the theories of Schiller, Schelling, Hegel, Hölderlin, and others, as mediations between these historicizing and universalizing impulses, and shows the roots of their approaches in earlier discussions of Greek tragedy in Germany, France, and England. By examining eighteenth-century readings of tragedy and the interactions between idealist thinkers in detail, Genealogy of the Tragic offers the most comprehensive historical account of the tragic to date, as well as the fullest explanation of why and how the idea was used to make sense of modernity. The book argues that idealist theories remain fundamental to contemporary interpretations of Greek tragedy, and calls for a renewed engagement with philosophical questions in criticism of tragedy.

Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781524747954

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Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us by Simon Critchley Pdf

From the moderator of The New York Times philosophy blog "The Stone," a book that argues that if we want to understand ourselves we have to go back to theater, to the stage of our lives Tragedy presents a world of conflict and troubling emotion, a world where private and public lives collide and collapse. A world where morality is ambiguous and the powerful humiliate and destroy the powerless. A world where justice always seems to be on both sides of a conflict and sugarcoated words serve as cover for clandestine operations of violence. A world rather like our own. The ancient Greeks hold a mirror up to us, in which we see all the desolation and delusion of our lives but also the terrifying beauty and intensity of existence. This is not a time for consolation prizes and the fatuous banalities of the self-help industry and pop philosophy. Tragedy allows us to glimpse, in its harsh and unforgiving glare, the burning core of our aliveness. If we give ourselves the chance to look at tragedy, we might see further and more clearly.

Author : Dennis J. Schmidt
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253338689

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On Germans & Other Greeks by Dennis J. Schmidt Pdf

Tracing the efforts of philosophers to appropriate the issues opened up by tragedy as a literary form, Dennis Schmidt makes the argument that in the struggle to come to terms with the issues raised by tragedy, new and progressive avenues for addressing the questions of ethic life have come to the fore.

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Tragedy
ISBN : UCSC:32106008007772

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Hegel on Tragedy by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pdf

Author : Véronique M. Fóti
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791481189

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Epochal Discordance by Véronique M. Fóti Pdf

Friedrich Hölderlin must be considered not only a significant poet but also a philosophically important thinker within German Idealism. In both capacities, he was crucially preoccupied with the question of tragedy, yet, surprisingly, this book is the first in English to explore fully his philosophy of tragedy. Focusing on the thought of Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Reiner Schürmann, Véronique M. Fóti discusses the tragic turning in German philosophy that began at the close of the eighteenth century to provide a historical and philosophical context for an engagement with Hölderlin. She goes on to examine the three fragmentary versions of Hölderlin's own tragedy, The Death of Empedocles, together with related essays, and his interpretation of Sophoclean tragedy. Fóti also addresses the relationship of his character Empedocles to the pre-Socratic philosopher and concludes by examining Heidegger's dialogue with Hölderlin concerning tragedy and the tragic.

Author : Peter J. Ahrensdorf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139475587

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Greek Tragedy and Political Philosophy by Peter J. Ahrensdorf Pdf

In this book, Peter Ahrensdorf examines Sophocles' powerful analysis of a central question of political philosophy and a perennial question of political life: should citizens and leaders govern political society by the light of unaided human reason or religious faith? Through an examination of Sophocles' timeless masterpieces - Oedipus the Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone - Ahrensdorf offers a sustained challenge to the prevailing view, championed by Nietzsche in his attack on Socratic rationalism, that Sophocles is an opponent of rationalism. Ahrensdorf argues that Sophocles is a genuinely philosophical thinker and a rationalist, albeit one who advocates a cautious political rationalism. Ahrensdorf concludes with an incisive analysis of Nietzsche, Socrates and Aristotle on tragedy and philosophy. He argues, against Nietzsche, that the rationalism of Socrates and Aristotle incorporates a profound awareness of the tragic dimension of human existence and therefore resembles in fundamental ways the somber and humane rationalism of Sophocles.

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1978-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015005001642

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Hegel on Tragedy by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pdf