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Tragedy: Tragedy is a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful events that befall a main character. Traditionally, the intention of tragedy is to invoke an accompanying catharsis. The term can also refer to hopeless situations in everyday life. See also Catharsis._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Hans-Georg Gadamer on Tragedy - Dictionary of Arguments
I 133 Tragic/Tragedy/Gadamer: [The tragic is] a basic phenomenon, a I 134 figure of meaning that is not only present in tragedy, the tragic work of art in the narrower sense, but can also have its place in other art genres, especially in the epic. As a matter of fact it is not at all a specifically artistic phenomenon, as long as it also occurs in life. For this reason, recent researchers (Richard Hamann(1), Max Scheler(2)) consider the tragic as an almost non-aesthetic moment. This is an ethical-metaphysical phenomenon that only intervenes in the area of aesthetic problems from the outside. But now that the concept of the aesthetic has revealed its questionability to us, we must ask ourselves conversely whether the tragic is not rather a basic aesthetic phenomenon. The being of the aesthetic had become visible to us as play and representation. Thus we may also ask the theory of the tragic game, the poetics of tragedy about the nature of tragedy. >Tragedy/Aristotle, >Fear/Aristotle, >Compassion/Aristotle, >Catharsis/Aristotle, >Affirmation/Gadamer. 1. Richard Hamann, Ästhetik, S. 97: »Das Tragische hat also mit Ästhetik nichts zu tun«; 2. Max Scheler, Vom Umsturz der Werte‘, „Zum Phänomen des Tragischen“: »Auch ob das Tragische ein wesentlich „ästhetisches Phänomen sei, ist zweifelhaft. « Zur Prägung des Begriffs „Tragödie“ vgl. E. Staiger, Die Kunst der Interpretation, S. 132ff._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |