Kierkegaard, Aristotle and the rebirth of tragedy /
First Statement of Responsibility
Daniel Greenspan
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Walter de Gruyter,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2008
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
x, 336 p. ;
Dimensions
24 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Kierkegaard studies.
Name of a Part
Monograph series,
ISSN of Series
19
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-326) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Ancient Greece -- Reason and the irrational : Sophocles' Oedipus tyrannus -- Literature and moral psychology : from Homer to Sophocles -- Aristotle's Poetics : Oedipus and the problem of tragedy -- Psuchē redux : philosophy and the new psychology -- Psychologizing Oedipus : reason and unreason in Aristotle's ethics -- Golden age Denmark -- Kierkegaard's retrieval of Greek tragedy -- Tragedy as historical idea : Either/or's "ancient drama reflected in the modern" -- Stages on life's way : Hamartia after modernity -- Fear and trembling : tragedy, comedy and the heroism of Abraham -- The concept of anxiety : fate and the tragic logos of a second ethics -- Beyond eudaimonism : tragic virtue and the practice of eternity -- Moral psychology in the pseudonyms, search for a method -- Ethics contra ethics : Climacus on eternal happiness and tragic virtue -- Kierkegaard and the tragedy of authorship