The Death of Empedocles: A Mourning-play
by Holderlin, Friedrich; Krell, David FarrellFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-10-09
Publisher(s): State Univ of New York Pr
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Summary
On the eve of his final odes and hymns, Friedrich Holderlin composed three versions of a dramatic poem on the suicide of the early Greek thinker, Empedocles of Acragas. This book offers the first complete translation of the three versions, along with translations of Holderlin's essays on the theory of tragedy. David Farrell Krell gives readers a brief chronology of Holderlin's life, an introduction to the life and thought of Empedocles-including Holderlin's Empedocles-detailed explanatory notes, and an analysis of the play and the theoretical essays, allowing for a full appreciation of this classic of world literature and philosophy. Book jacket.
Author Biography
David Farrell Krell is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the author and editor of many books also published by SUNY Press
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vii |
| Friedrich Holderlin: A Brief Chronology | p. xiii |
| General Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Frankfurt Plan | p. 27 |
| The Death of Empedocles, First Version | p. 35 |
| The Death of Empedocles, Second Version | p. 111 |
| Essays toward a Theory of the Tragic | p. 139 |
| The Tragic Ode | p. 142 |
| The General Basis [of Tragic Drama] | p. 142 |
| The Basis of Empedocles | p. 144 |
| The Fatherland in Decline | p. 153 |
| Plan of the Third Version of The Death of Empedocles | p. 161 |
| The Death of Empedocles, Third Version | p. 169 |
| Sketch toward the Continuation of the Third Version | p. 191 |
| Facsimile Pages from Der Tod des Empedokles | p. 197 |
| Notes | p. 221 |
| Analysis | p. 275 |
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