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Tragedy and the tragic in German literature, art, and thought /

Essays in this volume seek to clarify the meaning of tragedy and the tragic in its many German contexts, art forms, and disciplines, from literature and philosophy to music, painting, and history.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dowden, Stephen D. (Editor ), Quinn, Thomas P., 1949- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, New York : Camden House, [2014]
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontcover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Pursuit of Unhappiness; 1: The Confinement of Tragedy: Between Urfaust and Woyzeck; 2: Goethe's Faust as the Tragedy of Modernity; 3: Before or Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften and the Tragedy of Entsagung; 4: Hölderlin und das Tragische; 5: Nietzsche, Büchner, and the Blues; 6: Freud und die Tragödie; 7: The Death of Tragedy: Walter Benjamin's Interruption of Nietzsche's Theory of Tragedy; 8: Rosenzweig's Tragedy and the Spectacles of Strauss: The Question of German-Jewish History.
  • 9: Requiem for the Reich: Tragic Programming after the Fall of Stalingrad10: The Strange Absence of Tragedy in Heidegger's Thought; 11: The Tragic Dimension in PostwarGerman Painting; 12: Vestiges of the Tragic; 13: Atrocity and Agency: W.G. Sebald's Traumatic Memory in the Light of Hannah Arendt's Politics of Tragedy; 14: "Stark and Sometimes Sublime": Hannah Arendt's Reflections on Tragedy; 15: The German Tragic: Pied Pipers, Heroes, and Saints; Afterword: Searching for a Standpoint of Redemption; Note on the Contributors; Index.