The Locus of TragedyArthur Cools Ask for the tragic and Europe will answer. Leaving behind the philosophersa (TM) enthusiasm of the nineteenth century, a ~tragedya (TM) and a ~the tragica (TM) now seem little more than vague containers. However, it appears that we still discover a tragic essence in our personal lives. Time and again tragedy is being registered, written down and staged. This book wants to open a contemporary philosophical perspective on the tragic. What is the locus of tragedy? Does it relate to metaphysics, the gods, destiny, and chance? Or is it a matter of ethics, of the Law and its transgression? Does man himself occupy the locus of tragedy, because of his unreasonable and boundless desires, as many philosophers have suggested? Is man today still able to account for his tragic condition? Or do we locate the tragic first and foremost in the esthetic imagination? Is not the theatrical genre of tragedy the locus authenticus of all things tragic? Is there more to the tragic than drama and play? |
Contents
Tragedy and Hope Terry Eagleton | 1 |
PART ONE THE POLIS AS THE LOCUS OF TRAGEDY | 7 |
The Problem of Place in Greek Tragedy David Janssens | 9 |
How to Perform the Polis? Tragedy as the Locus of Deception Bram Van Oostveldt and Stijn Bussels | 29 |
PART TWO THE EARLY MODERN LOCUS OF TRAGEDY | 45 |
The Political Theology of Ernst Kantorowicz and the Theatricality of Absolutism Klaas Tindemans | 47 |
A Literary Approach to Christian Tragedy Enrica Zanin | 65 |
Le cas de Britannicus 1669 de Jean Racine Karel Vanhaesebrouck | 81 |
Selfhood as the Locus of the Tragic in Paul Ricoeurs Soimême comme un autre Arthur Cools | 165 |
Kierkegaard and Lacan on a Modern Antigone Paul Vanden Berghe | 181 |
Fate Oedipus and Beyond Jens De Vleminck | 197 |
PART FIVE TRAGEDY AND MODERN LITERATURE | 215 |
On Ibsen Simon Critchley | 217 |
The Tragic Heroism of Captain Ahab Daniel Shaw | 233 |
The Crystallization of Odette and Albertine in À la Recherche du temps perdu Rosa Slegers | 245 |
Tragic Weapons Turned Against Tragedy in Artauds Theatre of Cruelty Laurens De Vos | 263 |
PART THREE TRAGEDY AND MODERNITY | 103 |
Modernity in Hölderlins Remarks on Oedipus and Antigone Frans van Peperstraten | 105 |
Is the Tragic Always the Tragic? Kierkegaard on Antiquity and Modernity in Shakespeare Adam Wood | 121 |
Examining the Language of Nietzsches Die Geburt der Tragödie Thomas Crombez | 139 |
Nietzsche and the Paradox of Tragedy Robrecht Vandemeulebroecke | 151 |
PART FOUR TRAGEDY AND ANTROPOLOGY | 163 |
PART SIX THE EXPERIENCE OF THE TRAGIC IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE | 277 |
The Rebirth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Technology Jos de Mul | 279 |
The Unstoppable Rise of the Comic Perspective Johan Taels | 299 |
What Should Be Said of Tragedy Today? Dennis J Schmidt | 319 |
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