Genealogy of the Tragic (eBook)

Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy

Joshua Billings (Autor)

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2014
280 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5250-5 (ISBN)

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Joshua Billings is assistant professor of classics and humanities at Yale University.

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Why did Greek tragedy and "e;the tragic"e; come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity? And how has this belief affected modern understandings of Greek drama? In Genealogy of the Tragic, Joshua Billings answers these and related questions by tracing the emergence of the modern theory of the tragic, which was first developed around 1800 by thinkers associated with German Idealism. The book argues that the idea of the tragic arose in response to a new consciousness of history in the late eighteenth century, which spurred theorists to see Greek tragedy as both a unique, historically remote form and a timeless literary genre full of meaning for the present. The book offers a new interpretation of the theories of Schiller, Schelling, Hegel, Holderlin, and others, as mediations between these historicizing and universalizing impulses, and shows the roots of their approaches in earlier discussions of Greek tragedy in Germany, France, and England. By examining eighteenth-century readings of tragedy and the interactions between idealist thinkers in detail, Genealogy of the Tragic offers the most comprehensive historical account of the tragic to date, as well as the fullest explanation of why and how the idea was used to make sense of modernity. The book argues that idealist theories remain fundamental to contemporary interpretations of Greek tragedy, and calls for a renewed engagement with philosophical questions in criticism of tragedy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.10.2014
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Abbreviation • Aeschylus • Aesthetics • aesthetic theory • Age of Enlightenment • Alterity • anagnorisis • Anathema • ancient epic • Ancient Greece • Ancient poetry • Anthropomorphism • Antigone • Antinomy • Antiquity • Antithesis • aporia • Aposiopesis • Aristotelianism • Aristotle • Aristotlelianism • ART • Arthur Schopenhauer • August Wilhelm Schlegel • A.W. Schlegel • Barbarism (linguistics) • Bildung • Bourgeois Tragedy • Cambridge University Press • Categorical imperative • catharsis • Christian theology • Classical Philology (journal) • classics • Concept • Consciousness • Contingency (Philosophy) • Contradiction • Controversy • critical philosophy • Criticism • critique • Cultural Difference • Culture of Greece • Decadence • Defamiliarization • Delusion • Deontological Ethics • Deus ex machina • Dialectic • Digression • Dionysus • Drama • Empedocles • erudition • Essay • ethics • Euphemism • Euripides • Existence • freedom • French Revolution • Friedrich Hlderlin • Friedrich Nietzsche • Friedrich Schiller • Friedrich Schlegel • F.W.J. Schelling • Genre • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel • German Idealism • Germans • Good and evil • Gottfried Hermann • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing • Greek Drama • Greek Literature • Greek Mythology • Greek poetry • Greek religion • Greek theology • Greek tragedy • hamartia • Hegel • high tragedy • historical necessity • historical processes • historical singularity • Historicism • Historicity • historicization • Hlderlin • Holism • Hubris • hypocrisy • idealism • idealist thinkers • idealist thought • idealization • intentionality • Irony • Irrationality • Jacques Derrida • Jean Hyppolite • KANTIANISM • Kantian Revolution • Lecture • Lectures on Aesthetics • Literary genre • Literature • Loss • Loss and Gain • Martin Heidegger • martyr • metaphysical terms • Metaphysics • Mimesis • Modernity • Modern Poetry • Monomania • Myth • Mythology • Naive • Neoclassicism • Nihilism • Oedipus the Tyrant • Ontology • Open-mindedness • Parallel thinking • Parody • Pathos • peripeteia • pessimism • phenomenon • Philhellenism • Philology • Philosopher • Philosophy • pity • Poetics • Poetics (Aristotle) • Poetry • Polemic • Political Life • Polytheism • Positivism • Preconscious • predestination • Princeton University Press • Principle • Querelle • Reality • reason • Reinhart Koselleck • Relativism • Religion • Renunciation • Research fellow • rhetorical terms • Richard Porson • ridicule • Romanticism • romantic tragedies • Schelling • Schiller • Sententiae • sentimentality • Sentimental poetry • seriousness • shakespearean tragedy • social existence • Sophocles • Søren Kierkegaard • Speculative reason • speculative terms • Spinozism • Spirituality • Sturm und Drang • Subjectivity • Subversion • Suffering • Superiority (short story) • Tbingen Stift • Teleology • temporality • The Bride of Messina • Theodicy • Theology • theory • Theory of Forms • The Phenomenology of Spirit • The Philosopher • Thought • Tragedy • tragic • tragic hero • Uncertainty • Understanding • Universality (philosophy) • Walter Benjamin • war • Werner Hamacher • Wissenschaft • Writing • Xenien • Xunzi (book)
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5250-1 / 1400852501
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5250-5 / 9781400852505