Krell The Cudgel and the Caress

Reflections on Cruelty and Tenderness
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7299-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Offers philosophical and psychological reflections on cruelty and tenderness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krell, David Farrell

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Key to the Principal Sources Cited
Introduction

Part I. Tenderness (Zärtlichkeit)

1. Tenderness and Tragedy

2. Homer’s Iliad, Holderlin’s Briseiad

3. Tender Antigone—Forever Younger

4. Tender Schlegel, Irascible Hegel

5. Pulling Strings Wins No Wisdom

6. A Woman Without Qualities?

Part II. Cruelty (Grausamkeit)

7. Caress of Gestation, Cudgel of Birth

8. The Nervous System of a Specter

9. Freedom, Imputability, Cruelty

10. Cruelty, Power, Art, Tenderness

Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Farrell Krell is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University and Brauer Distinguished Visiting Professor of German Studies at Brown University.