{"product_id":"the-tragic-absolute-9780253217530","title":"The Tragic Absolute","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShows that German idealist and romantic theories of literature and aesthetic judgment are closer to the heart of metaphysics and ethics than previously thought. This title explores the contributions of Schelling, Holderlin, and others to the aesthetics of tragedy, and charts the fate of the speculative philosophy in terms of the tragic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is vintage Krell--he is as always, a reader in the best sense of the word... \" Dennis J. Schmidt \"Krell is a strong and often eloquent writer ... I regard this to be one of his most important works...\" Jason M. Wirth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eKey to Works Cited\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. The Oldest Program toward a System in German Idealism \u003cbr\u003e The Philological Dispute\u003cbr\u003e Das älteste Systemprogramm des deutschen Idealismus: Text and Translation\u003cbr\u003e Commentary\u003cbr\u003e The Tragic Absolute?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Three Ends of the Absolute \u003cbr\u003e Absolute Inhibition: Schelling\u003cbr\u003e Absolute Separation: Hölderlin\u003cbr\u003e Absolute Density: Novalis\u003cbr\u003e A Note on Absolute and Relative Death\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. At the Stroke of One\u003cbr\u003e A Peripheral Reading of Schelling's Treatise on Human Freedom\u003cbr\u003e Excursus on Sehnsucht: Languor, the Languid, and Languishment\u003cbr\u003e The Peripheral Reading (continued)\u003cbr\u003e An Indifferent Reading of Schelling's Treatise on Human Freedom\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. God's Trauma\u003cbr\u003e The Earliest Notes toward Schelling's The Ages of the World\u003cbr\u003e The Genealogy of Time, and the Golden Age\u003cbr\u003e Trauma, Repression, and the Absolute Past\u003cbr\u003e An Excursion to Samothrace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. God's Footstool \u003cbr\u003e From the 1811 Draft of Die Weltalter, with Variants from the 1810\u003cbr\u003eStuttgarter Privatvorlesungen and the 18271828 System der Weltalter\u003cbr\u003e From the Sketches toward the Second Proposed Volume of\u003cbr\u003eDie Weltalter, \"The Present\"\u003cbr\u003e The Olympian Zeus of Pausanias's Guide to Greece\u003cbr\u003e The Forlorn Foot of Divinity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Brazen Wheels\u003cbr\u003e Freedom to Burn: Schelling's Tenth Letter\u003cbr\u003e Absolute Mythology: The 18021803 Philosophy of Art\u003cbr\u003e The Klang of Music, the Fine Arts, and Tragedy\u003cbr\u003e Ironclad Necessity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Voices of Empedocles\u003cbr\u003e \"Dame Philosophy Is a Tyrant\"\u003cbr\u003e Essence or Accidents?\u003cbr\u003e Nefas or Destiny?\u003cbr\u003e Formal Aspects of the Three Drafts of Hölderlin's Mourning-Play\u003cbr\u003e Rhea's Disappearance and the Rise of the Doppelgänger\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Hölderlin's \"Translations\" of Sophocles\u003cbr\u003e The Labors of Translation\u003cbr\u003e The Reviews\u003cbr\u003e Absolute Intensity and the Task of the Translator\u003cbr\u003e Translating \"Theatrality\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. A Small Number of Houses in the Tragic Universe\u003cbr\u003e At the Center of Aristotle's Thought: The Poetics\u003cbr\u003e Divine Betrayal: Hölderlin's \"Notes on Oedipus\"\u003cbr\u003e In the Figure of Death: Hölderlin's \"Notes on Antigone\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e10. Hölderlin's Tragic Heroines\u003cbr\u003e Three Commentaries: Kommerell, Reinhardt, Loraux\u003cbr\u003e Jocasta's Shadow, Antigone's \"Ath, Niobe's Tears, Danaë's Gold\u003cbr\u003e Return to Jocasta\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. Antigone's Clout\u003cbr\u003e Lacan on the Essence of Tragedy\u003cbr\u003e Lacan on the Tragic Dimension of Psychoanalytic Experience\u003cbr\u003e Antigone between Two Deaths, Two Births\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12. Nietzschean Reminiscences\u003cbr\u003e Not a Single New Goddess?\u003cbr\u003e \"Against the Oncoming Night\"\u003cbr\u003e Kavqarsi~ and \"Ekstasi~ in Absolute Music, Absolute Rhythm\u003cbr\u003e The Tragic Absolute\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix: Plot Summaries of The Death of Empedocles\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400651481431,"sku":"9780253217530","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253217530.jpg?v=1730471211","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-tragic-absolute-9780253217530","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}