The Passion of Infinity : : Kierkegaard, Aristotle and the Rebirth of Tragedy / / Daniel Greenspan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Greenspan, Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series , 19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

The Passion of Infinity generates a historical narrative surrounding the concept of the irrational as a threat which rational culture has made a series of attempts to understand and relieve. It begins with a reading of Sophocles' Oedipus as the paradigmatic figure of a reason that, having trans...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Part I Ancient Greece
• Chapter 1. Reason and the Irrational: Sophocles’
• Oedipus Tyrannus
• Chapter 2. Literature and Moral Psychology: From
• Homer to Sophocles
• Chapter 3. Aristotle’s Poetics: Oedipus and the
• Problem of Tragedy
• Chapter 4. Psuche Redux: Philosophy and the New
• Psychology
• Chapter 5. Psychologizing Oedipus: Reason and
• Unreason in Aristotle’s Ethics
• Part II Golden Age Denmark
• Chapter 6. Tragedy as Historical Idea: Either/Or’s
• “Ancient Drama Reflected in the Modern”
• Chapter 7. Stages on Life’s Way: Hamartia after
• Modernity
• Chapter 8. Fear and Trembling: Tragedy, Comedy and
• the Heroism of Abraham
• Chapter 9. The Concept of Anxiety: Fate and the
• Tragic Logos of Second Ethics
• Chapter 10. Moral Psychology in the Pseudonyms,
• Search for a Method
• Chapter 11. Ethics Contra Ethics: Climacus on
• Eternal Happiness and Tragic Virtue
• Chapter 12. Kierkegaard and the Tragedy of
• Authorship
• Backmatter