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Description for Tragic Play
Translator(s): Phillips, James. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
Tragic Play explores the deep philosophical significance of classic and modern tragedies in order to cast light on the tragic dimensions of contemporary experience. Romanticism, it has often been claimed, brought tragedy to an end, making modernity the age after tragedy. Christoph Menke opposes this modernist prejudice by arguing that tragedy remains alive in the present in the distinctively new form of the playful, ironic, and self-consciously performative. Through close readings of plays by William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, Heiner Muller, and Botho Strauss, Menke shows how tragedy re-emerges in modernity as "tragedy of play." In Hamlet, Endgame, Philoktet, and Ithaka, ... Read more
Tragic Play explores the deep philosophical significance of classic and modern tragedies in order to cast light on the tragic dimensions of contemporary experience. Romanticism, it has often been claimed, brought tragedy to an end, making modernity the age after tragedy. Christoph Menke opposes this modernist prejudice by arguing that tragedy remains alive in the present in the distinctively new form of the playful, ironic, and self-consciously performative. Through close readings of plays by William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, Heiner Muller, and Botho Strauss, Menke shows how tragedy re-emerges in modernity as "tragedy of play." In Hamlet, Endgame, Philoktet, and Ithaka, ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Number of Pages
248
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231145565
SKU
V9780231145565
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About Christoph Menke
Christoph Menke is professor of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt am Main. His publications in English include The Sovereignty of Art, Aesthetic Negativity in Adorno and Derrida, and Reflections of Equality.
Reviews for Tragic Play
"Christoph Menke develops tragedy as a modern mode of understanding in new and interesting ways. His ideas should generate quite a bit of debate not only in philosophy but also in literary studies and social theory."
Fred Rush, Univ. of Notre Dame
Fred Rush, Univ. of Notre Dame