Cooper The Tragedy of Philosophy

Kant's Critique of Judgment and the Project of Aesthetics
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6190-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Reframes philosophical understanding of, and engagement with, tragedy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooper, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Note on Citations

Introduction
Tragedy in contemporary philosophy
Method in the history of philosophy

Overview

Part I. Kant’s Critique of Judgment

1. From Disembodied Soul to Embodied Mind
The problem of life
The generation dilemma
The rationalist response
The empiricist response
Embodied mind

2. Reflective Judgment
The need for a third Critique
The power of judgment
Beauty and purposiveness
The antinomy of teleological judgment
From system to method

3. The Ethical Turn
Reason’s double bind
The spiritual character of art
Synthesizing nature and freedom
An enlarged way of thinking

Part II. Tragedy after Kant

4. Hegel: The Philosophy of Tragedy
Aesthetics
A theory of tragedy
Interpreting Hegel
Tragedy and history

5. Nietzsche: Tragic Philosophy
Schopenhauer’s metaphysics
The Apollinian and the Dionysian
The death and rebirth of tragedy
Tragedy and ethics

6. Heidegger: Greek Tragedy
Philosophy and politics
Introduction to Metaphysics
Hölderlin’s Hymn
Tragedy and Being

7. Castoriadis: Tragedy and Self-formation
Identitary logic
Imagination and representation
Tragedy and self-formation
Tragedy and philosophy

Conclusion
Imagination
Ethical complexity
Universality
Transforming philosophy Notes

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Cooper is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bonn, Germany.