Tragedy and the Tragic in German Literature, Art, and Thought

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Edited by Stephen D. Dowden, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, Thomas P. Quinn

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: February 2023
Print publication year:: 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781782044123
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781782044123

Subjects:: Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, History, European Studies, Russian and East European History
Series:: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Essays in this volume seek to clarify the meaning of tragedy and the tragic in its many German contexts, art forms, and disciplines, from literature and philosophy to music, painting, and history.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments
pp ix-x

Introduction: The Pursuit of Unhappiness
pp 1-20

1 - The Confinement of Tragedy: Between Urfaust and Woyzeck
pp 21-39

2 - Goethe’s Faust as the Tragedy of Modernity
pp 40-64

3 - Before or Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Goethe’s Wahlverwandtschaften and the Tragedy of Entsagung
pp 65-92

4 - Hölderlin und das Tragische
pp 93-123

5 - Nietzsche, Büchner, and the Blues
pp 124-147

6 - Freud und die Tragödie
pp 148-170

7 - The Death of Tragedy: Walter Benjamin’s Interruption of Nietzsche’s Theory of Tragedy
pp 171-194

8 - Rosenzweig’s Tragedy and the Spectacles of Strauss: The Question of German-Jewish History
pp 195-215

9 - Requiem for the Reich: Tragic Programming after the Fall of Stalingrad
pp 216-228

10 - The Strange Absence of Tragedy in Heidegger’s Thought
pp 229-254

11 - The Tragic Dimension in Postwar German Painting
pp 255-286

12 - Vestiges of the Tragic
pp 287-295

13 - Atrocity and Agency: W. G. Sebald’s Traumatic Memory in the Light of Hannah Arendt’s Politics of Tragedy
pp 296-310

14 - “Stark and Sometimes Sublime”: Hannah Arendt’s Reflections on Tragedy
pp 311-324

15 - The German Tragic: Pied Pipers, Heroes, and Saints
pp 325-336

Afterword: Searching for a Standpoint of Redemption
pp 337-356

Notes on the Contributors
pp 357-360

Index
pp 361-370

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