The passion of infinity
Subtitle: Kierkegaard, Aristotle, and the rebirth of tragedy
By: Daniel Greenspan.
Series: Kierkegaard studies. Monograph series -- 19
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9783110203967
Subjects: Kierkegaard, Søren, -- 1813-1855; Aristotle; Tragedy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction 1; title: Ancient Greece; title: Reason and the irrational : Sophocles' Oedipus tyrannus; title: Psuchê : literature and moral psychology from Homer to Sophocles; title: Aristotle's poetics : Oedipus and the problem of tragedy; title: Psuchê redux : philosophy and the new psychology; title: Psychologizing Oedipus : reason and unreason in Aristotle's ethics; title: Golden age denmark; title: Kierkegaard's retrieval of Greek tragedy; title: Tragedy as historical idea : either/or ancient drama reflected in the modern; title: Stages on life's way : Hamartia in the wake of modernity; title: Fear and trembling : tragedy, comedy, and the heroism of Abraham; title: The concept of anxiety : fate and the tragic logos of a second ethics; title: Beyond eudaimonism : tragic virtue and the practice of eternity; title: Moral psychology in the pseudonyms, search for a method ethicscontra ethics : Climacus on eternal happiness and tragic virtue; title: Kierkegaard and the tragedy of authorship.