The Tragic Absolute: German Idealism and the Languishing of God (Studies in Continental Thought)

this Is Vintage Krell — He Is As Always, A Reader In The Best Sense Of The Word.... — Dennis J. Schmidt krell Is A Strong And Often Eloquent Writer... I Regard This To Be One Of His Most Important Works.... — Jason M. Wirth in The Tragic Absolute, David Farrell Krell Shows That German Idealist And Romantic Theories Of Literature And Aesthetic Judgment, Especially When It Comes To Tragedy, Are Closer To The Heart Of Metaphysics And Ethics Than Previously Thought. Krell Not Only Explores The Contributions Of Schelling, Hölderlin, Novalis, Hegel, And Nietzsche To The Aesthetics Of Tragedy, He Also Charts The Fate Of The Absolute And Speculative Philosophy In Terms Of The Tragic. Krell Explodes The Usual Conception That Aesthetic Judgments About Literary Genres Are Relatively Marginal Subjects For Philosophy. Indeed, In Krell's View, Even God Himself, The Very Absolute Of Traditional Metaphysics, Is Seen As Languishing And Condemned To Tragic Downfall. Questions Concerning The Death Of God, The Role Of Trauma And Forgetting In Narrative, The Overcoming Of Barriers Between Humans And Other Living Beings, And The Role Of Music And Rhythm As Sources Of Ecstasy Are Highlighted In This Keen, Precise, And Lively Book. p_20160310_0000 1 p_20160310_0001_1 2 p_20160310_0001_2 3 p_20160310_0002_1L 4 p_20160310_0002_2R 5 p_20160310_0003_2R 6 p_20160310_0004_1L 7 p_20160310_0004_2R 8 p_20160310_0005_2R 9 p_20160310_0006_1L 10 p_20160310_0006_2R 11 p_20160310_0007_1L 12 p_20160310_0007_2R 13 p_20160310_0008_2R 14 p_20160310_0009_1L 15 p_20160310_0009_2R 16 p_20160310_0010_1L 17 p_20160310_0010_2R 18 p_20160310_0011_2R 19 p_20160310_0012_2R 20 p_20160310_0013_1L 21 p_20160310_0013_2R 22 p_20160310_0014_1L 23 p_20160310_0014_2R 24 p_20160310_0015_1L 25 p_20160310_0015_2R 26 p_20160310_0016_1L 27 p_20160310_0016_2R 28 p_20160310_0017_1L 29 p_20160310_0017_2R 30 p_20160310_0018_1L 31 p_20160310_0018_2R 32 p_20160310_0019_1L 33 p_20160310_0019_2R 34 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Dennis J. Schmidt "Krell is a strong and often eloquent writer . . . I regard this to be one of his most important works. . . ." Jason M. Wirth In The Tragic Absolute, David Farrell Krell shows that German Idealist and Romantic theories of literature and aesthetic judgment, especially when it comes to tragedy, are closer to the heart of metaphysics and ethics than previously thought. Krell not only explores the contributions of Schelling, Hlderlin, Novalis, Hegel, and Nietzsche to the aesthetics of tragedy, he also charts the fate of the absolute and speculative philosophy in terms of the tragic. Krell explodes the usual conception that aesthetic judgments about literary genres are relatively marginal subjects for philosophy. Indeed, in Krell's view, even God himself, the very absolute of traditional metaphysics, is seen as languishing and condemned to tragic downfall. Questions concerning the death of God, the role of trauma and forgetting in narrative, the overcoming of barriers between humans and other living beings, and the role of music and rhythm as sources of ecstasy are highlighted in this keen, precise, and lively book. 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