Tragedy and PhilosophyA critical re-examination of the views of Plato, Aristotle, Hegel and Nietzsche on tragedy. Ancient Greek tragedy is revealed as surprisingly modern and experimental, while such concepts as mimesis, catharsis, hubris and the tragic collision are discussed from different perspectives. |
Contents
THE RIVAL AS CRITIC | 2 |
THE JUDGE WHO KNOWS | 30 |
hamartia and hybris | 59 |
happy end | 69 |
TOWARD A NEW POETICS 17 Beyond Plato and Aristotle | 75 |
Imitationand a new definition of tragedy | 79 |
The works relation to its author | 87 |
The philosophical dimension | 92 |
Character in the Iliad and Oresteia | 183 |
How tragedy did and did not die | 191 |
POET OF HEROIC DESPAIR 41 Nietzsche and Sophocles cheerfulness | 195 |
Hegels theory of tragedy | 200 |
Ajax | 212 |
Antigone | 215 |
The Women of Trachis and Electra | 225 |
Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus | 233 |
THE RIDDLE OF OEDIPUS 21 Three classical interpretations | 102 |
The historical context | 109 |
Mans radical insecurity | 115 |
Human blindness | 117 |
The curse of honesty | 120 |
The inevitability of tragedy | 126 |
Justice as problematic and the five themes | 129 |
Oedipus versus Plato | 133 |
HOMER AND THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY 29 How Homer shaped Greek tragedy | 136 |
The gods in the Iliad | 143 |
Neither belief nor dualism | 149 |
The matter of weight | 153 |
Mans lot | 155 |
AESCHYLUS AND THE DEATH OF TRAGEDY 34 Nietzsche and the death of tragedy | 163 |
What we know of Aeschylus | 166 |
Orestes in Homer | 169 |
Aeschylus optimism | 175 |
How he is more tragic than Homer | 181 |
Sophocles humanism | 237 |
EURIPIDES NIETZSCHE AND SARTRE 48 In defense of Euripides | 242 |
Euripides Electra | 247 |
Was Euripides an irrationalist? | 253 |
Nietzsches influence on The Flies | 259 |
Are Dirty Hands and The Flies tragedies? | 263 |
SHAKESPEARE AND THE PHILOSOPHERS 53 Testing the philosophers | 270 |
Aristotle and Shakespeare | 273 |
Hegel on Shakespeare | 279 |
Humes essay Of Tragedy | 287 |
Schopenhauer on tragedy | 291 |
Nietzsche versus Schopenhauer | 297 |
Max Scheler and the tragic | 301 |
TRAGEDY TODAY | 309 |
EPILOGUE | 359 |
NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS | 366 |
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