Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
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
Tragedy and Modernity: Closing Thoughts
Appendix: Translation of Part II of Jakob Bernays 'Cartharsis'
Index

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