Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-446) and index
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The oldest program toward a system in German Idealism -- Three ends of the absolute -- At the stroke of one -- God's trauma -- God's footstool -- Brazen wheels -- Voices of Empedocles -- Hölderlin's "translations" of Sophocles -- A small number of houses in the tragic universe -- Hölderlin's tragic heroines -- Antigone's clout -- Nietzschean reminiscences
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In 'The Tragic Absolute', David Farrell shows that German Idealist and Romantic theories of literature and aesthetic judgement, especially when it comes to tragedy, are closer to the heart of metaphysics and ethics that previously thought