The Passion of Infinity

Kierkegaard, Aristotle and the Rebirth of Tragedy

Daniel Greenspan

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN:
  9783110203967
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110211177
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism

Seit ihrer Gründung im Jahr 1997 gilt die Reihe Kierkegaard Studies Monograph Series (KSMS) als maßgebendes Forum für herausragende Monographien aus dem gesamten Bereich der Kierkegaard-Forschung. Sie bietet Raum für die verschiedenen Forschungstraditionen zu Kierkegaard, die solchermaßen in einen konstruktiven Dialog treten. Kierkegaard Studies Monograph Series wird im Auftrag des Søren Kierkegaard Forschungszentrums (Universität Kopenhagen) herausgegeben.

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Table of contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Reason and the Irrational: Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus
• Chapter 2. Literature and Moral Psychology: From Homer to Sophocles
• Chapter 3. Aristotle’s Poetics: Oedipus and the Problem of Tragedy
• Chapter 4. Psuche Redux: Philosophy and the New Psychology
• Chapter 5. Psychologizing Oedipus: Reason and Unreason in Aristotle’s Ethics
• Chapter 6. Tragedy as Historical Idea: Either/Or’s “Ancient Drama Reflected in the Modern”
• Chapter 7. Stages on Life’s Way: Hamartia after Modernity
• Chapter 8. Fear and Trembling: Tragedy, Comedy and the Heroism of Abraham
• Chapter 9. The Concept of Anxiety: Fate and the Tragic Logos of Second Ethics
• Chapter 10. Moral Psychology in the Pseudonyms, Search for a Method
• Chapter 11. Ethics Contra Ethics: Climacus on Eternal Happiness and Tragic Virtue
• Chapter 12. Kierkegaard and the Tragedy of Authorship
• Backmatter