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Author:   Joshua Billings (Assistant Professor of Classics and Humanities, Assistant Professor of Classics and Humanities, Yale University) ,  Miriam Leonard (Professor of Greek Literature and its Reception, Professor of Greek Literature and its Reception, University College London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9780198727798

ISBN 10:   0198727798
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   21 May 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Contributors Joshua Billings and Miriam Leonard: Introduction Part 1: Tragic Poetics 1: James I. Porter: Jacob Bernays and the Catharsis of Modernity 2: Christoph Menke: The Aesthetics of Tragedy: Romantic Perspectives 3: Ian Balfour: Paradoxon: On the Sublimity of Tragedy in Hoelderlin and Some Contemporaries 4: Samuel Weber: Tragedy and Trauerspiel: Too Alike? 5: Andrew Benjamin: Leben und Gluck: Modernity and Tragedy in Walter Benjamin, Hoelderlin, and Sophocles Part 2: Tragic Cultures 6: Terry Pinkard: Tragedy With and Without Religion: Hegelian Thoughts 7: Rudiger Goerner: The (Operatic) Culture: Notes on a Theme in Kierkegaard, Hebbel, and Wagner 8: Katie Fleming: Heidigger's Antigone: Ethics and Politics 9: Miriam Leonard: Carl Schmitt: Tragedy and the Intrusion of History 10: John Hamilton: The Tragic Voice of Pascal Quignard Part 3: Tragic Canons 11: Simon Goldhill: The Ends of Tragedy: Schelling, Hegel, and Oedipus 12: Simon Critchley: The Tragedy of Misrecognition: The Desire for a Catholic Shakespeare and Hegel's Hamlet 13: Joshua Billings: Margins of Genre: Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Tragedy 14: Robert B. Pippin: Williams on Nietzsche on the Greeks Michael Silk: Tragedy and Modernity: Closing Thoughts James I. Porter: Appendix: Translation of Part II of Jakob Bernays 'Cartharsis' Index

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Leonard is excellent at highlighting the importance of a philosophical reading of tragedy in modernity. -Daisy Dunn, The Times Literary Supplement

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Joshua Billings is Assistant Professor of Classics and Humanities at Yale University. Miriam Leonard is Professor of Greek Literature and its Reception at University College London.

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