Tragedy and Philosophy PDF book is popular Literary Criticism book written by Walter Kaufmann. The book was released by Princeton University Press on 1992 with total hardcover pages 414. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read Tragedy and Philosophy by Walter Kaufmann in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
A critical re-examination of the views of Plato, Aristotle, Hegel and Nietzsche on tragedy. Ancient Greek tragedy is revealed as surprisingly modern and experim
From Heidegger's reading of Antigone to Nietzsche and Benjamin's book-length studies of tragedy, Philosophy and Tragedy presents an outstanding and original stu
This book is a full survey of the philosophy of tragedy from antiquity to the present. From Aristotle to Žižek the focal question has been: why, in spite of i
A Philosophy of Tragedy explores the tragic condition of man in modernity. Nietzsche knew it, but so have countless characters in literature: that the modern ag
Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Plato's criti