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The philosophy of tragedy : from Plato to Žižek / Julian Young, Wake Forest University, North Carolina.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Young, Julian, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tragic, The.
- Tragedy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 279 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is a full survey of the philosophy of tragedy from antiquity to the present. From Aristotle to Žižek the focal question has been: why, in spite of its distressing content, do we value tragic drama? What is the nature of the 'tragic effect'? Some philosophers point to a certain kind of pleasure that results from tragedy. Others, while not excluding pleasure, emphasize the knowledge we gain from tragedy - of psychology, ethics, freedom or immortality. Through a critical engagement with these and other philosophers, the book concludes by suggesting an answer to the question of what it is that constitutes tragedy 'in its highest vocation'. This book will be of equal interest to students of philosophy and of literature.
- Contents:
- 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
- 4 Hume
- French Discussions of Tragic Pleasure
- Hume's 'Conversion' Theory
- 5 Schelling
- Kant, Fichte, Spinoza and the Problem of Freedom
- Philosophy Alone Cannot Establish the Reality of Freedom
- Why 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
- 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
- 7 Hegel
- Ethical Substance
- The Tragic Conflict
- The Cause of the Tragic Conflict: Hegel's Account of Hamartia
- The 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
- Rewriting Antigone
- 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
- 10 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?
- 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 Violence
- Mourning 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
- 12 Heidegger
- The Central Account
- Ontology and Ethics
- The Content of Tragedy
- Heidegger and Wagner
- Creation versus Articulation
- The Ister Lectures
- The Possibility of Modern Tragedy
- 13 Camus
- The Conditions under Which Tragedy Arises
- What Is Tragedy?
- Camus on the Tragic Effect
- The Death of Ancient and Renaissance Tragedy
- The Possibility of the Rebirth of Tragedy
- Camus and Hegel
- 14 Arthur Miller
- Is Tragedy Possible Now?
- Tragedy and Pessimism
- 15 Žižek
- The Enemies of Tragedy
- 16 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-316-08999-1
- 1-107-06519-4
- 1-107-25554-6
- 1-107-05787-6
- 1-107-05566-0
- 1-139-17723-0
- 1-107-05913-5
- OCLC:
- 849723114
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