Philosophy and Tragedy Book

	List of contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
I	Hegel
1	Hegel: or the tragedy of thinking	11
2	Self-dissolving seriousness: on the comic in the Hegelian conception of tragedy	38
II	Holderlin
3	Of tragic metaphor	59
4	Tragedy and speculation	78
5	A small number of houses in a universe of tragedy: notes on Aristotle's [peri poietikes] and Holderlin's 'Anmerkungen'	88
6	Holderlin's theatre	117
III	Nietzsche
7	Aesthetically limited reason: on Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy	139
8	Zarathustra: the tragic figure of the last philosopher	152
IV	Heidegger
9	A 'scarcely pondered word'. The place of tragedy: Heidegger, Aristotle, Sophocles	169
V	Benjamin
10	Fatalities: freedom and the question of language in Walter Benjamin's reading of tragedy	193
VI	Last Words
11	Aphasia: or the last word	221
	Index	239