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Philosophy and Tragedy (Hardcover)
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Philosophy and Tragedy (Hardcover)
Series: Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
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From Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Poetics to Nietzsche's The
Birth of Tragedy, the theme of tragedy has been subject to
radically conflicting philosophical interpretations. Despite being
at the heart of philosophical debate from Ancient Greece to the
Nineteenth Century, however, tragedy has yet to receive proper
treatment as a philosophical tradition in its own right. Philosophy
and Tragedy is a compelling contribution to that oversight and the
first book to address the topic in a major way. Eleven new essays
by internationally renowned philosophers clearly show how time and
again, major thinkers have returned to tragedy in many of their key
works. Philosophy and Tragedy aks why it is that thinkers as far
apart as Hegel and Benjamin should make tragedy such an important
theme in their work, and why, after Kant, an important strand of
philosophy should present itself tragically. From Heidegger's
reading of Sophocles' Antigone to Nietzsche and Benjamin's
book-length studies of tragedy, Philosophy and Tragedy presents an
outstanding and original study of this preoccupation. The five
sections are organised clearly around five major philosophers:
Hegel, Holderlin, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Benjamin
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