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Zusatztext Leonard is excellent at highlighting the importance of a philosophical reading of tragedy in modernity. -Daisy Dunn, The Times Literary Supplement Informationen zum Autor Joshua Billings is Assistant Professor of Classics and Humanities at Yale University.Miriam Leonard is Professor of Greek Literature and its Reception at University College London. Klappentext This volume considers the relationship between Greek tragedy and philosophy in the context of the ancient Greek works themselves! suggesting that the tradition of philosophical thought concerning tragedy has a major place in understandings both of ancient tragedy and of modernity itself. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Joshua Billings and Miriam Leonard: Introduction; Part 1: Tragic Poetics; 1 James I. Porter: Jacob Bernays and the Catharsis of Modernity; 2 Christoph Menke: The Aesthetics of Tragedy: Romantic Perspectives; 3 Ian Balfour: Paradoxon: On the Sublimity of Tragedy in Holderlin and Some Contemporaries; 4 Samuel Weber: Tragedy and Trauerspiel: Too Alike?; 5 Andrew Benjamin: Leben und Gluck: Modernity and Tragedy in Walter Benjamin! Holderlin! and Sophocles; Part 2: Tragic Cultures; 6 Terry Pinkard: Tragedy With and Without Religion: Hegelian Thoughts; 7 Rudiger Gorner: The (Operatic) Culture: Notes on a Theme in Kierkegaard! Hebbel! and Wagner; 8 Katie Fleming: Heidigger's Antigone: Ethics and Politics; 9 Miriam Leonard: Carl Schmitt: Tragedy and the Intrusion of History; 10 John Hamilton: The Tragic Voice of Pascal Quignard; Part 3: Tragic Canons; 11 Simon Goldhill: The Ends of Tragedy: Schelling! Hegel! and Oedipus; 12 Simon Critchley: The Tragedy of Misrecognition: The Desire for a Catholic Shakespeare and Hegel's Hamlet; 13 Joshua Billings: Margins of Genre: Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Tragedy; 14 Robert B. Pippin: Williams on Nietzsche on the Greeks; Michael Silk: Tragedy and Modernity: Closing Thoughts; James I. Porter: Appendix: Translation of Part II of Jakob Bernays 'Cartharsis'; Index ...
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This volume considers the relationship between Greek tragedy and philosophy in the context of the ancient Greek works themselves, suggesting that the tradition of philosophical thought concerning tragedy has a major place in understandings both of ancient tragedy and of modernity itself.
