Philosophy and Tragedy

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Edited by Miguel De Beistegui and Simon Sparks

Routledge

Due/Published December 1999, 208 pages, paper

ISBN 0415191424

Philosophy and Tragedy is a collection of essays by some of today's leading philosophers on the encounter between philosophy and tragedy in the work of Hegel, Holderlin, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Benjamin. The present volume asks the question why it is that after Hegel, philosophy seems to have been preoccupied with the 'tragic' and explores the dynamics of the relationship between tragic form and philosophical enquiry. The essays demonstrate how the model of tragedy affords the most extreme and thorough presentation of conflicts which are at the heart of continental philosophy, such as the topics of freedom, necessity, identity and historicity, and reveal why tragedy is so essential to modern philosophical thinking.