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An essay on the tragic / Peter Szondi ; translated by Paul Fleming.
Van Pelt Library BH301.T7 S9513 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Szondi, Peter.
- Series:
- Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
- Meridian : crossing aesthetics
- Standardized Title:
- Versuch über das Tragische. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Tragic, The.
- Tragedy--History and criticism.
- Tragedy.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 113 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Summary:
- This is a succinct and elegant argument for the specificity of a philosophy of tragedy, as opposed to a poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle.
- Contents:
- Part I. The Philosophy of the Tragic
- 1 Schelling 7
- 2 Holderlin 11
- 3 Hegel 15
- 4 Solger 23
- 5 Goethe 25
- 6 Schopenhauer 28
- 7 Friedrich Theodor Vischer 31
- 8 Kierkegaard 34
- 9 Hebbel 37
- 10 Nietzsche 41
- 11 Simmel 44
- 12 Scheler 47
- Transition 49
- Part II. Analyses of the Tragic
- 13 Oedipus Rex 59
- 14 Life Is a Dream 64
- 15 Othello 70
- 16 Leo Armenius 74
- 17 Phaedra 78
- 18 Demetrius 82
- 19 The Schroffenstein Family 90
- 20 Danton's Death 95.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-113).
- ISBN:
- 0804742375
- 0804743959
- OCLC:
- 49260283
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