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• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• File Size : 46,5 Mb
• Release Date : 25 June 1992

A 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,

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 28 June 2013

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

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 48,9 Mb
• Release Date : 04 August 2005

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

• Publisher : State University of New York Press
• File Size : 28,6 Mb
• Release Date : 30 August 2016

Reframes philosophical understanding of, and engagement with, tragedy. In The Tragedy of Philosophy Andrew Cooper challenges the prevailing idea of the death of tragedy, arguing that this assumption reflects a

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 50,6 Mb
• Release Date : 10 November 2011

Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Plato's critique of pity in the Republic. However,

• Publisher : Vintage
• File Size : 34,6 Mb
• Release Date : 16 April 2019

From the moderator of The New York Times philosophy blog "The Stone," a book that argues that if we want to understand ourselves we have to go back to theater,

• Publisher : Reaktion Books
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• Release Date : 15 April 2016

A Philosophy of Tragedy explores the tragic condition of man in modernity. Nietzsche knew it, but so have countless characters in literature: that the modern age places us squarely before

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 55,5 Mb
• Release Date : 24 January 2019

Tragedy as Philosophy in the Reformation World examines how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, theologians, and humanist critics turned to tragedy to understand providence and agencies human and divine in the

• Publisher : BRILL
• File Size : 30,9 Mb
• Release Date : 08 March 2021

Completed shortly before her death in 2019, Tragedy and Philosophy. A Parallel History is the sum of Agnes Heller’s reflections on European history and culture, seen through the prism of

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 44,8 Mb
• Release Date : 12 September 1993

Is philosophy, as the love of wisdom, inherently tragic? Must philosophy abolish its traditional modes of thinking if it is to attain the wisdom of tragedy? Sharing a common origin,