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The Philosophy of Tragedy : From Plato to Žižek.
This book, written in an accessible style, is an exhaustive survey of the philosophy of tragedy from antiquity to the present.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; The Philosophy of Tragedy; Title; Copyright; Introduction; 1 Plato; Culture Wars in Fourth-Century Athens; Preliminary Skirmishes; The Unreliability of Inspiration; 'The Poets Lie Too Much'; The Painting Argument; The Stiff-Upper-Lip Argument; 2 Aristotle; Mimesis; Catharsis; The Tragic Hero; Hamartia; Criticism; 3 After Aristotle; Horace, Castelvetro and Rapin; Seneca; Stoic Philosophy; Seneca's Plays; The Puzzle; The Solution; Criticism; 4 Hume; French Discussions of Tragic Pleasure; Hume's 'Conversion' Theory; Criticism; 5 Schelling; Kant, Fichte, Spinoza and the Problem of Freedom.
- Philosophy Alone Cannot Establish the Reality of FreedomWhy Art?; Why Tragedy in Particular?; The Inferiority of Modern Tragedy; The Form of Greek Tragedy; The Content of Greek Tragedy; The Tragic Effect; Kant on the Sublime; Schelling on the Sublime; Criticism; 6 Hölderlin; The Human Condition: 'Sobriety' versus 'Intoxication'; The Modern Condition: Us versus the Greeks; The 'Free Use' of the Apollonian; Why We Need to Recover the Dionysian; Dionysian Unity; Tragedy and the Dionysian; Criticism; 7 Hegel; Ethical Substance; The Tragic Conflict; The Tragic Hero.
- The Cause of the Tragic Conflict: Hegel's Account of HamartiaThe Tragic Resolution; Hegel and Catharsis; Modern Tragedy; Fate; Oedipus; Agamemnon; 'Hegelian' versus 'Fateful' Tragedy; Is Hegel Unfair to Shakespeare?; 8 Kierkegaard; Modernity and Subjectivity; The Greek Tragic Hero: Freedom, Fate, Hamartia and the Tragic Effect; Kierkegaard versus Hegel on Greek Tragedy; Modern Tragedy; Rewriting Antigone; Criticism; 9 Schopenhauer; Schopenhauer's General Philosophy; What Is Art?; The Beautiful; The Sublime; The Poetics of Tragedy; Tragic Pleasure; Fear and Pity; Modern versus Greek Tragedy.
- Criticism10 Nietzsche; The Problem: The Threat of Nihilism; Homer's Apollonian Art; The Apollonian Solution to Nihilism; The Dionysian; Tragic Joy; How Greek Tragedy Produced Tragic Joy; The 'Primordial Unity' as a Natural Being; The 'Noble Deception'; Only as an 'Aesthetic Phenomenon' Is Life 'Justified'; Socrates and the Death of Tragedy; Does Nietzsche Answer the Question?; Criticism; 11 Benjamin and Schmitt; Tragedy versus Mourning Play; Myth versus Current Affairs; Moral 'Agon' versus the 'Death of Martyrs'; Stoical versus Sublime Death; Continuous versus Discontinuous Action.
- Onstage versus Offstage ViolenceMourning versus Fear and Pity; Aesthetic Relativism; The Inconsistency of the Criteria Definitive of a Mourning Play; Mourning Play versus Martyr Play; Is Hamlet a Mourning Play?; Martyr Play versus Tragedy; Schmitt; Hamlet; Tragedy versus Trauerspiel; Criticism; 12 Heidegger; The Central Account; Ontology and Ethics; The Content of Tragedy; Heidegger and Wagner; Creation versus Articulation; The Ister Lectures; Criticism; The Possibility of Modern Tragedy; 13 Camus; The Conditions under Which Tragedy Arises; What Is Tragedy?; Camus on the Tragic Effect.