Tragedy and the Tragic in German Literature, Art, and Thought: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Introduction: The Pursuit of Unhappiness The Confinement of Tragedy: Between Urfaust and Woyzeck Goethe's Faust as the Tragedy of Modernity Before or Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften and the Tragedy of Entsagung Hölderlin und das Tragische Nietzsche, Büchner, and the Blues Freud und die Tragödie The Death of Tragedy: Walter Benjamin's Interruption of Nietzsche's Theory of Tragedy Rosenzweig's Tragedy and the Spectacles of Strauss: The Question of German-Jewish History Requiem for the Reich: Tragic Programming after the Fall of Stalingrad The Strange Absence of Tragedy in Heidegger's Thought The Tragic Dimension in Postwar German Painting Vestiges of the Tragic Atrocity and Agency: W. G. Sebald's Traumatic Memory in the Light of Hannah Arendt's Politics of Tragedy "Stark and Sometimes Sublime": Hannah Arendt's Reflections on Tragedy The German Tragic: Pied Pipers, Heroes, and Saints Afterword: Searching for a Standpoint of Redemption Notes on the Contributors Index