Epochal Discordance: Holderlin's Philosophy of Tragedy

Contents

Prefatory Note xi Prologue 1 One The Tragic Turning and Tragic Paradigm in Philosophy 7 Two Communing with the Pure Elements: The First Two Versions of The Death of Empedocles 29 Three Singularity and Reconciliation: The Third Version of The Death of Empedocles 41 Four Between Hölderlin’s Empedocles and Empedocles of Akragas 55 Five The Faithless Turning: Hölderlin’s Reading of Oedipus Tyrannos 65 Six Dys-Limitation and the “Patriotic Turning”: Sophocles’ Antigone 75 Seven From an Agonistic of Powers to a Homecoming: Heidegger, Hölderlin, and Sophocles 91 Epilogue 105 Notes 111 Contents Bibliography 133 Index of Persons 139 Index of Topics 142 CONTENTS viii We must ask from the gods things suited to hearts that shall die, knowing the path we are in, the nature of our doom. —Pindar, Pythian III, trans. C. M. Bowra ...