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... emancipatory forces. Yet if we look back to what precisely the modern “invention of tradi- tion” recovers as the first work of fiction, Greek tragedy, we find that the Western self takes as its first self-representation, paradoxi- cally, the denial of the human ability to act: although tragic he- roes...

... is a picture of Santayana as a latter day Dying Seneca (fig. 1). Nearly twenty-five years earlier, Leavis offered the readers of Scrutiny a scathing com- mentary on the author's "Senecan tragic attitude or philosophy."2 The essay "Tragedy and the 'Medium': A Note...

..., can be affi rmed and read in a non-tragic way. The Paradox of Making and Work: Valéry Valéry’s fi rst lecture in his Cours de poétique (at the Collège de France, 1937)4 reveals an approach to poetry that appears—and not only at fi rst glance—to head in a direction completely oppo- site...

... the centrality of tragedy and tragic confl ict, Pahl sees Hegel as ultimately proposing a theory of action as theatrical per- formance combining lightheartedness, distance, and gravity. For Pahl, it is the Greek gods who inhabit existence with a theatrical lightheartedness and tragic...

... into the theatrical sphere. More specifi - cally, if we ask where we would fi nd a sacrifi cial logic at play in theater, we would think of the tragic theater. In tragedy, fate is the state of being caught in a fi eld constituted by ambivalence, by implicit opposing demands. If we are not aware...

... the tragic. Both theist and postmodernist share an absolute confi dence in the 198 qui parle fall/winter 2010 vol.19, no.1 authority of God or the unending play of images. Žižek acknowl- edges the Fall: we fi nite beings are always getting things wrong, our best efforts...

... and in totality that is posited, becomes principle or auto- position, the absolute that subordinates its two components. Hence the tragic or destinal essence, at once of the individual and of ethics, which are engaged in a reciprocal and ill-fated strug- gle for domination...

... Christianity . Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press , 2015 . Benjamin Walter . The Origin of German Tragic Drama , translated by Osborne John . London : New Left Books , 1977 . Bloomfield Morton . “Piers Plowman” as a Fourteenth-Century Apocalypse . New Brunswick...

... to surprise us, we need to stop reducing them to a political function or moral imperative. This critical research also lacked what I loved so much in Weber’s writings: a sense of the tragic, that is, the sense that social analysis, like politics or morality, was about weighing incommensurable goods, making...

... international de philosophie, Paris. She is the author of Seductions of Fate: Tragic Subjectivity, Ethics, Politics. j. m. bernstein is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His writings include The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation...

... thread that profi les the death of George (one of the fi lm’s many subjects, a black employee of a school who teaches French and is going blind from complications related to AIDS), implicitly feeding into tragic narratives of gay men that proliferated at the time and before (ZP, 19–20...

... score of names of the rank of Tolstoy, Melville, Flaubert, Hofmannsthal, and many more).3 And it is such writers (of fiction), with their tragic sense of the irremediableness of suf- fering — for to have a body is to suffer— who constitute a rebuke to Hegel, make...

... distinction between epic and novel forms in the Theory of the Novel, and Walter Benjamin in his distinction between symbolic and allegorical forms of artistic practice and interpretation in The Origin of German Tragic-Drama. If we follow this trajectory we will arrive...

... to an old geometry of the tragic spectrum—the more the terror, the less the pity. That’s the long and short of it. 4. Jimbo’s Inferno The arrow of time continues to whiz out of view while differences in wing...

... at the Goethe Uni- versität Frankfurt am Main Department in the Formation of Nor- mative Orders Excellence Cluster. His books in English include The Sovereignty of Art: Aesthetic Negativity after Adorno and Derrida (1998); Refl ections of Equality (2006); Tragic Play: Tragedy. Irony and Theater from...

.... snediker is the author of Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions (2009) and Con- tingent Figure: Aesthetic Duress from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (forthcoming). His book of poems, The Apartment of Tragic Appliances (2013), was a Lambda...

...: Philosophy, Literature, and Film. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Burt, John. Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Confl ict. Cambridge ma: Harvard University Press, 2013. Church, Jennifer. The Possibilities of Perception. Oxford: Oxford...

... that depended on the abstraction and formalization of vision.27 Crary finishes the story on a tragic note, "What is important is how these paths continually intersect and often overlap on the same social terrain, amid the countless localities in which the diversity...

..., but a being brought down to the same hard ground? What does it mean to take pleasure and comfort in a democracy of exposure and suffering, of contingency and bleakness? A democ- racy of loss in which “bring on fantasy!” produces the present as a comic version of a tragic political...

... , translated into English as “strike” or “punch.” 5. “La critique est la mortification des oeuvres.” Benjamin , The Origin of German Tragic Drama , 182. 6. Heidegger , Contributions to Philosophy , 208. 7. Artaud , The Theater and Its Double , 30. 8. Artaud, The Theater...