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OverviewFrom German idealism onward, Western thinkers have sought to revalue tragedy, invariably converging at one cardinal point: tragic art risks aestheticizing real violence. Tragically Speaking critically examines this revaluation, offering a new understanding of the changing meaning of tragedy in literary and moral discourse. It questions common assumptions about the Greeks' philosophical relation to the tragic tradition and about the ethical and political ramifications of contemporary theories of tragedy. Starting with the poet Friedrich Hlderlin and continuing to the present, Kalliopi Nikolopoulou traces how tragedy was translated into an idea (the tragic) that was then revised further into the beyond the tragic of post-metaphysical contemporary thought. While recognizing some of the merits of this revaluation, Tragically Speaking concentrates on the losses implicit in such a turn. It argues that by translating tragedy into an idea, these re-readings effected a problematic subordination of politics to ethics: the drama of human conflict gave way to philosophical reflection, bracketing the world in favour of the idea of the world. Where contemporary thought valorises absence, passivity, the Other, rhetoric, writing, and textuality, the author argues that their deconstructed opposites (presence, will, the self, truth, speech, and action, all of which are central to tragedy) are equally necessary for any meaningful discussion of ethics and politics. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kalliopi NikolopoulouPublisher: University of Nebraska Press Imprint: University of Nebraska Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780803240919ISBN 10: 0803240910 Pages: 376 Publication Date: 01 January 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Old Quarrels 1: Orient/Occident, Ancients/Moderns: The Tyranny of Theory over Greece; 2: An Old Quarrel: Poetry and Philosophy Part II: For the Love of Truth 3: Habeas Corpus: Foucault's Fearless Speech; 4: Plato's Courts: Phaedrus and Apology; 5: Euripides' Verdict: The Bacchae Part III: Passions 6: Pizetaalpha ALPHAiota alphatauosigmasigmaalpha: On Antigone; 7: Antigone's Children Appendix; Work CitedReviewsAuthor InformationKalliopi Nikolopoulou is an associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Buffalo. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |