On Germans and Other Greeks - Tragedy and Ethical Life

Dennis J. Schmidt is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. He is author of The Ubiquity of the Finite and translator of Ernst Bloch's Natural Law and Human Dignity.

List of contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:

In Lieu of a Preface

Key to Frequently Cited Works

Questions

1. Plato

2. Aristotle

Interlude: Kant and Schelling

Appendix A: The Earliest System-Program of German Idealism

Appendix B: Tenth Letter on Dogmatism and Criticism

3. Hegel

4. Hölderlin

Appendix C: Letter to Böhlendorf

Appendix D: Letter to Brother

Appendix E: "In lovely blueness . . . "

Appendix F: Empedocles

Appendix G: The Death of Empedocles

5. Nietzsche

6. Heidegger

Appendix H: Heidegger's Translation of the Choral Ode from Antigone

Appendix I: Hölderlin's Translation of the Choral Ode from Antigone

Convictions and Suspicions

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Dennis J. Schmidt is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. He is author of The Ubiquity of the Finite and translator of Ernst Bloch's Natural Law and Human Dignity.

Summary

Examining tragedy as one of the highest forms of human expression for both the ancients and the moderns, this book presents what Greek tragedy and German philosophy reveal about the meaning of art for ethical life.

Product details

• Authors: Dennis J. Schmidt, Schmidt Dennis J
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2001
• EAN: 9780253214430
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21443-0
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 237 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 562 g
• Series: Studies in Continental Thought; Studies in Continental Thought; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works