Essay on the Tragic

by Peter Szondi

Book Overview

Peter Szondis pathbreaking work is a succinct and elegant argument for distinguishing between a philosophy of the tragic and the poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle. The first of the books two parts consists of a series of commentaries on philosophical and aesthetic texts from twelve thinkers and poets between 1795 and 1915: Schelling, H lderlin, Hegel, Solger, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Vischer, Kierkegaard, Hebbel, Nietzsche, Simmel, and Scheler...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804743959
• ISBN13: 9780804743952
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.4"