An exploration of the idea of the tragic in the writings of Georg Simmel: Peripeteia and modernity

Autor:	Robert Button
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Dialectic Sociology and Political Science Cultural pessimism Philosophy Modernity media_common.quotation_subject Context (language use) Aesthetics Argument Normative Tragedy (event) Religious studies media_common Drama
Zdroj:	Journal of Classical Sociology. 12:135-158
ISSN:	1741-2897 1468-795X
DOI:	10.1177/1468795x11433707
Popis:	Highlighting the lack of critical attention directed to the tragic as a distinct concept in Simmel’s thought, this paper seeks to elucidate the tragic as a specific dialectical process and to draw attention to the grounding of this concept in the German philosophical tradition that Peter Szondi has identified as ‘the philosophy of the tragic’. In the course of the argument care is taken to illuminate Simmel’s understanding through reference to tragic drama itself, thus emphasizing the properly aesthetic context of the tragic as a distinct philosophical idea relevant to socio-cultural life. In recovering Simmel’s definition of the tragic, the author seeks to counter the common conflation of Simmel’s use of the tragic concept in his understanding of socio-cultural life with a normative position akin to ‘cultural pessimism’, and to elucidate the way in which the tragic ultimately indicates a form of affirmation, albeit one replete with nihilistic implications.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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