Author: Friedrich Holderlin
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791477339
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin’s poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays.
The Death of Empedocles
Author: Friedrich Holderlin
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791477339
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin’s poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791477339
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin’s poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays.
Death by Philosophy
Author: Ava Chitwood
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472113880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Brings to vivid life the connections between philosophy and biography by examining the spectacular--and often wildly implausible--biographies of famous pre-Socratic thinkers
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472113880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Brings to vivid life the connections between philosophy and biography by examining the spectacular--and often wildly implausible--biographies of famous pre-Socratic thinkers
The Book of Dead Philosophers
Author: Simon Critchley
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 0522855148
Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Diogenes died by holding his breath. Plato allegedly died of a lice infestation. Diderot choked to death on an apricot. Nietzsche made a long, soft-brained and dribbling descent into oblivion after kissing a horse in Turin. From the self-mocking haikus of Zen masters on their deathbeds to the last words (gasps) of modern-day sages, The Book of Dead Philosophers chronicles the deaths of almost 200 philosophers-tales of weirdness, madness, suicide, murder, pathos and bad luck. In this elegant and amusing book, Simon Critchley argues that the question of what constitutes a 'good death' has been the central preoccupation of philosophy since ancient times. As he brilliantly demonstrates, looking at what the great thinkers have said about death inspires a life-affirming enquiry into the meaning and possibility of human happiness. In learning how to die, we learn how to live.
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 0522855148
Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Diogenes died by holding his breath. Plato allegedly died of a lice infestation. Diderot choked to death on an apricot. Nietzsche made a long, soft-brained and dribbling descent into oblivion after kissing a horse in Turin. From the self-mocking haikus of Zen masters on their deathbeds to the last words (gasps) of modern-day sages, The Book of Dead Philosophers chronicles the deaths of almost 200 philosophers-tales of weirdness, madness, suicide, murder, pathos and bad luck. In this elegant and amusing book, Simon Critchley argues that the question of what constitutes a 'good death' has been the central preoccupation of philosophy since ancient times. As he brilliantly demonstrates, looking at what the great thinkers have said about death inspires a life-affirming enquiry into the meaning and possibility of human happiness. In learning how to die, we learn how to live.
Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic
Author: Peter Kingsley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
More specifically, he traces for the first time a line of transmission from Empedocles and the early Pythagoreans down to southern Egypt, and from there into the world of Islam. "Highly polemical new book ... The thesis is argued with immense learning." "Times Higher Education Supplement".
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
More specifically, he traces for the first time a line of transmission from Empedocles and the early Pythagoreans down to southern Egypt, and from there into the world of Islam. "Highly polemical new book ... The thesis is argued with immense learning." "Times Higher Education Supplement".
The Death of Empedocles
Author: Friedrich Holderlin
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791476475
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin’s poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791476475
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin’s poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays.
Epochal Discordance
Author: Véronique M. Fóti
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791481182
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Friedrich Hölderlin must be considered not only a significant poet but also a philosophically important thinker within German Idealism. In both capacities, he was crucially preoccupied with the question of tragedy, yet, surprisingly, this book is the first in English to explore fully his philosophy of tragedy. Focusing on the thought of Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Reiner Schürmann, Véronique M. Fóti discusses the tragic turning in German philosophy that began at the close of the eighteenth century to provide a historical and philosophical context for an engagement with Hölderlin. She goes on to examine the three fragmentary versions of Hölderlin's own tragedy, The Death of Empedocles, together with related essays, and his interpretation of Sophoclean tragedy. Fóti also addresses the relationship of his character Empedocles to the pre-Socratic philosopher and concludes by examining Heidegger's dialogue with Hölderlin concerning tragedy and the tragic.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791481182
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Friedrich Hölderlin must be considered not only a significant poet but also a philosophically important thinker within German Idealism. In both capacities, he was crucially preoccupied with the question of tragedy, yet, surprisingly, this book is the first in English to explore fully his philosophy of tragedy. Focusing on the thought of Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Reiner Schürmann, Véronique M. Fóti discusses the tragic turning in German philosophy that began at the close of the eighteenth century to provide a historical and philosophical context for an engagement with Hölderlin. She goes on to examine the three fragmentary versions of Hölderlin's own tragedy, The Death of Empedocles, together with related essays, and his interpretation of Sophoclean tragedy. Fóti also addresses the relationship of his character Empedocles to the pre-Socratic philosopher and concludes by examining Heidegger's dialogue with Hölderlin concerning tragedy and the tragic.
Postponements
Author: David Farrell Krell
Publisher: Studies in Phenomenology & Exi
ISBN: 9780253345608
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Publisher: Studies in Phenomenology & Exi
ISBN: 9780253345608
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Empedocles Redivivus
Author: Myrto Garani
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135859833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This book consists of a thorough study of Lucretius’ poetic and philosophical debt to Empedocles, focusing on their respective uses of analogy and examining how both poets turn these poetic techniques to use in their epistemological approaches to nature.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135859833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This book consists of a thorough study of Lucretius’ poetic and philosophical debt to Empedocles, focusing on their respective uses of analogy and examining how both poets turn these poetic techniques to use in their epistemological approaches to nature.
The Tragic Absolute
Author: David Farrell Krell
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253345363
Category : Idealism, German
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Exposes the core of tragic absolutes in German Romantic and Idealist philosophy.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253345363
Category : Idealism, German
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Exposes the core of tragic absolutes in German Romantic and Idealist philosophy.
Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy
Author: Alex Long
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107086590
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Provides an accessible account of the variety and subtlety of Greek and Roman philosophy of death, from Homer to Marcus Aurelius.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107086590
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Provides an accessible account of the variety and subtlety of Greek and Roman philosophy of death, from Homer to Marcus Aurelius.