The passion of infinity : Kierkegaard, Aristotle and the rebirth of tragedy / Daniel Greenspan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenspan, Daniel.

Series:

Kierkegaard studies. Monograph series 1434-2952 ; 19.

Kierkegaard studies. Monograph series, 1434-2952 ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.

Kierkegaard, Søren.

Aristotle.

Tragedy.

Physical Description:

x, 336 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, [2008]

Contents:

Ancient Greece

Reason and the irrational : Sophocles' Oedipus tyrannus

Literature and moral psychology : from Homer to Sophocles

Aristotle's Poetics : Oedipus and the problem of tragedy

Psuchē redux : philosophy and the new psychology

Psychologizing Oedipus : reason and unreason in Aristotle's ethics

Golden age Denmark

Kierkegaard's retrieval of Greek tragedy

Tragedy as historical idea : Either/or's "ancient drama reflected in the modern"

Stages on life's way : Hamartia after modernity

Fear and trembling : tragedy, comedy and the heroism of Abraham

The concept of anxiety : fate and the tragic logos of a second ethics

Beyond eudaimonism : tragic virtue and the practice of eternity

Moral psychology in the pseudonyms, search for a method

Ethics contra ethics : Climacus on eternal happiness and tragic virtue

Kierkegaard and the tragedy of authorship.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-326) and index.

ISBN:

9783110203967

3110203960

OCLC:

232237069