Fire from Heaven in Elemental Tragedy: From Holderlin's Death of Empedocles to Nietzsche's Dying Socrates.
The paper considers the legacy of Empedocles as it bears upon the difficulty confronted by Holderlin in his Death of Empedocles-, how are we to understand Holderlin's failure to complete this 'mourning play' despite his continued and repeated efforts? This difficulty is elaborated through a reading...
| Publicado en: | Research in Phenomenology Vol. 44; no. 2; pp. 212 - 240 |
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2014
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