Epochal Discordance : Hölderlin's Philosophy of Tragedy

by Foti, Veronique M.

• ISBN13: 9780791468593
• ISBN10: 0791468593
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-07
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Friedrich HC6lderlin must be considered not only a significant poet but also a philosophically important thinker within German Idealism. In both capacities, he was crucially preoccupied with the question of tragedy, yet, surprisingly, this book is the first in English to explore fully his philosophy of tragedy. Focusing on the thought of Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Reiner SchC

Author Biography

Veronique M. Foti is Professor of Philosophy at Penn State at University Park

Table of Contents

Prefatory Note	p. xi
Prologue	p. 1
The Tragic Turning and Tragic Paradigm in Philosophy	p. 7
Communing with the Pure Elements: The First Two Versions of The Death of Empedocles	p. 29
Singularity and Reconciliation: The Third Version of The Death of Empedocles	p. 41
Between Holderlin's Empedocles and Empedocles of Akragas	p. 55
The Faithless Turning: Holderlin's Reading of Oedipus Tyrannos	p. 65
Dys-Limitation and the "Patriotic Turning": Sophocles' Antigone	p. 75
From an Agonistic of Powers to a Homecoming: Heidegger, Holderlin, and Sophocles	p. 91
Epilogue	p. 105
Notes	p. 111
Bibliography	p. 133
Index of Persons	p. 139
Index of Topics	p. 142
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