Essays in this volume seek to clarify the meaning of tragedy and
the tragic in its many German contexts, art forms, and disciplines,
from literature and philosophy to music, painting, and history. The
many catastrophes of German history have often been described as
tragic. Consequently, German literature, music, philosophy,
painting, and even architecture are rich in tragic connotations.
Yet exactly what "tragedy" and "thetragic" may mean requires
clarification. The poet creates a certain artful shape and
trajectory for raw experience by "putting it into words"; but does
putting such experience into words (or paintings or music or any
other form) betray suffering by turning it into mere art? Or is it
art that first turns mere suffering into tragic experience by
revealing and clarifying its deepest dimension? What are we talking
about, exactly, when we talk about tragic experience and tragic
art, especially in an age in which, according to Hannah Arendt,
evil has become banal? Does banality muffle or even annul the
tragic? Does tragedy take suffering and transform it into beauty,
as Schiller thought?Is it in the interest of truth for suffering to
be "beautiful"? Is it possible that poetry, music, and art are
important because they in fact create the meaning of suffering? Or
is suffering only suffering and not accessible to meaning, tragic
or otherwise? This book comprises essays that seek to clarify the
meaning of tragedy and the tragic in its many German contexts, art
forms, and disciplines, from literature and philosophy to music,
painting, and history. Contributors: Jeffrey A. Bernstein, Stephen
D. Dowden, Wolfram Ette, Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, Barbara
Hahn, Karsten Harries, Felicitas Hoppe, Joseph P. Lawrence, James
McFarland, Karen Painter, Bruno Pieger, Robert Pirro, Thomas P.
Quinn, Mark W. Roche, Helmut Walser Smith. Stephen D. Dowden is
Professor of German language and literature at Brandeis University.
Thomas P. Quinn is an independent scholar.
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