On Germans & other Greeks : tragedy and ethical life / Dennis J. Schmidt.

By:

Schmidt, Dennis J

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0253108624
9780253108623
0253214432
9780253214430
0253338689
9780253338686

Other title:

On Germans and other Greeks

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: On Germans & other Greeks.DDC classification:

882/.0109 21

LOC classification:

PA3131 .S366 2001eb

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Contents:

Contents; In Lieu of a Preface; Key to Frequently Cited Works; Questions; 1 Plato; 2 Aristotle; Interlude: Kant and Schelling; Appendix A: The Earliest System-Program of German Idealism (1796); Appendix B: Tenth Letter on Dogmatism and Criticism; 3 Hegel; 4 Hölderlin; Appendix C: Letter to Böhlendorff; Appendix D: Letter to Brother; Appendix E: In lovely blueness . . .Ž; Appendix F: Empedocles; Appendix G: The Death of Empedocles; 5 Nietzsche; 6 Heidegger; Appendix H: Heidegger's Translation of the Choral Ode from Antigone (1935).

Appendix I: Hölderlin's Translation of the Choral Ode from Antigone (1804)Convictions and Suspicions; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.

Summary: Tracing the efforts of philosophers to appropriate the issues opened up by tragedy as a literary form, Dennis Schmidt makes the argument that in the struggle to come to terms with the issues raised by tragedy, new and progressive avenues for addressing the questions of ethic life have come to the fore.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Appendix I: Hölderlin's Translation of the Choral Ode from Antigone (1804)Convictions and Suspicions; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.

Tracing the efforts of philosophers to appropriate the issues opened up by tragedy as a literary form, Dennis Schmidt makes the argument that in the struggle to come to terms with the issues raised by tragedy, new and progressive avenues for addressing the questions of ethic life have come to the fore.