Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Joshua Billings and Miriam Leonard: Introduction
Part 1: Tragic Poetics
1: James I. Porter: Jacob Bernays and the Catharsis of Modernity
2: Christoph Menke: The Aesthetics of Tragedy: Romantic Perspectives
3: Ian Balfour: Paradoxon: On the Sublimity of Tragedy in Hölderlin and Some Contemporaries
4: Samuel Weber: Tragedy and Trauerspiel: Too Alike?
5: Andrew Benjamin: Leben und Glück: Modernity and Tragedy in Walter Benjamin, Hölderlin, and Sophocles
Part 2: Tragic Cultures
6: Terry Pinkard: Tragedy With and Without Religion: Hegelian Thoughts
7: Rüdiger Görner: The (Operatic) Culture: Notes on a Theme in Kierkegaard, Hebbel, and Wagner
8: Katie Fleming: Heidigger's Antigone: Ethics and Politics
9: Miriam Leonard: Carl Schmitt: Tragedy and the Intrusion of History
10: John Hamilton: The Tragic Voice of Pascal Quignard
Part 3: Tragic Canons
11: Simon Goldhill: The Ends of Tragedy: Schelling, Hegel, and Oedipus
12: Simon Critchley: The Tragedy of Misrecognition: The Desire for a Catholic Shakespeare and Hegel's Hamlet
13: Joshua Billings: Margins of Genre: Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Tragedy
14: Robert B. Pippin: Williams on Nietzsche on the Greeks
Michael Silk: Tragedy and Modernity: Closing Thoughts
James I. Porter: Appendix: Translation of Part II of Jakob Bernays 'Cartharsis'
Index

About the Author

Joshua Billings is Assistant Professor of Classics and Humanities at Yale University. Miriam Leonard is Professor of Greek Literature and its Reception at University College London.

Reviews

Leonard is excellent at highlighting the importance of a philosophical reading of tragedy in modernity. -Daisy Dunn, The Times Literary Supplement