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Philosophy and Tragedy Philosophy and Tragedy Tragedy has always been an important topic in philosophy, ever since Aristotle first wrote about the subject in his Poetics, However, despite tragedy’s consistent presence in post-Kantian thought, the relationship between tragedy and philosophy has never before been systematically addressed and investigated. Philosophy and Tragedy is a unique and original collection of essays by some of today’s leading philosophers on the encounter between philosophy and tragedy in the work of Hegel, Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Benjamin. The present volume asks the fundamental question why it is that after Hegel, philosophy seems to have been preoccupied with the ‘tragic’ and explores the dynamics of the relationship between tragic form and philosophical enquiry. The essays demonstrate how the model of tragedy affords the most extreme and thorough presentation of conflicts which are at the heart of continental philosophy, such as the topics of freedom, necessity, identity and historicity, and reveal why tragedy is so essential to modern philosophical thinking. The contributors to this volume are: Miguel de Beistegui, Walter Brogan, Jean-François Courtine, Françoise Dastur, Günter Figal, Marc Froment- Meurice, Rodolphe Gasché, David Farrell Krell, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Will McNeill, Simon Sparks. Miguel de Beistegui is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Simon Sparks is Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of Strasbourg. Warwick Studies in European Philosophy Edited by Andrew Benjamin Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick This series presents the best and most original work being done within the European philosophical tradition. The books included in the series seek not merely to reflect what is taking place within European philosophy, but also to contribute to the growth and development of that plural tradition. Work written in the English language as well as translations into English are to be included, engaging the tradition at all levels—whether by introductions that show the contemporary philosophical force of certain works, or by collections that explore an important thinker or topic, or by significant contributions that call for their own critical evaluation. Titles already published in the series: Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy Edited by Andrew Benjamin and Peter Osborne Bataille: Writing the Sacred Edited by Carolyn Bailey Gill Emmanuel Levinas: The Genealogy of Ethics John Llewelyn Maurice Blanchot: The Demand of Writing Edited by Carolyn Bailey Gill Body- and Image-Space: Re-reading Walter Benjamin Sigrid Weigel (trans. Georgina Paul) Passion in Theory: Conceptions of Freud and Lacan Robyn Ferrell Hegel After Derrida Edited by Stuart Barnett Retreating the Political Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy On Jean-Luc Nancy: The Sense of Philosophy Edited by Darren Sheppard, Simon Sparks and Colin Thomas Deleuze and Philosophy: The Difference Engineer Edited by Keith Ansell Pearson Very Little…Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature Simon Critchley Blanchot: Extreme Contemporary Leslie Hill iii Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas and Merleau- Ponty Cathryn Vasseleu Essays on Otherness Jean Laplanche Philosophy and Tragedy Edited by Miguel de Beistegui and Simon Sparks London and New York First published 2000 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 2000 Miguel de Beistegui and Simon Sparks for selection and editorial matter; the contributors for individual chapters. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Philosophy and tragedy/[edited by] Simon Sparks and Miguel de Beistegui. p. cm.—(Warwick studies in European philosophy) Includes bibliographical references and index. (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Tragic, The—History—19th century. 2. Philosophy, German—19th century. 3. Tragic, The—History—20th century. 4. Philosophy, German-20th century. I. Sparks, Simon, 1970– II. Beistegui, Miguel de, 1966–. III. Series. BH301.T7P45 1999 128–dc21 99–28329 CIP ISBN 0-203-98175-8 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-415-19141-6 (hbk) ISBN 0-415-19142-4 (pbk) Contents List of contributors viii Acknowledgements x Introduction 1 Miguel de Beistegui and Simon Sparks I Hegel 1 Hegel: or the tragedy of thinking 10 Miguel de Beistegui 2 Self-dissolving seriousness: on the comic in the Hegelian 37 conception of tragedy Rodolphe Gasché II Hölderlin 3 Of tragic metaphor 57 Jean-François Courtine 4 Tragedy and speculation 76 Françoise Dastur 5 A small number of houses in a universe of tragedy: notes on 86 Aristotle’s and Hölderlin’s ‘Anmerkungen’ David Farrell Krell 6 Hölderlin’s theatre 115 Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe III Nietzsche 7 Aesthetically limited reason: on Nietzsche’s The Birth of 136 Tragedy Günter Figal 8 Zarathustra: the tragic figure of the last philosopher 148 Walter Brogan vii IV Heidegger 9 A ‘scarcely pondered word’. The place of tragedy: 163 Heidegger, Aristotle, Sophocles Will McNeill V Benjamin 10 Fatalities: freedom and the question of language in Walter 185 Benjamin’s reading of tragedy Simon Sparks VI Last Words 11 Aphasia: or the last word 212 Marc Froment-Meurice Index 230 List of contributors Miguel de Beistegui is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He has published essays on Heidegger in English and in French, and is author of Heidegger and the Political: Dystopias. Walter Brogan is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. He is the author of several articles on Nietzsche and has published extensively in Ancient Greek Philosophy and Contemporary Continental Philosophy. He is the cotranslator of Heidegger’s Metaphysics Θ 1–3: On the Essence and Actuality of Force, and is currently working on a book for SUNY Press on Heidegger’s interpretation of Aristotle. Jean-François Courtine is Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Paris (X), and the Director of the Husserl Archives in Paris. Translator of Schelling’s work into French, he has written extensively on German Idealism and phenomenology. His books include Heidegger et la phénoménologie and Extase de la raison: Essais sur Schelling. Françoise Dastur is Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Nice. One of the leading interpreters of Hölderlin in France, she is the author of Hölderlin, le retournement natal: Tragédie et modernité & nature et poésie, as well as works on Heidegger, Husserl and the question of death. All her books are currently being translated into English. Günter Figal is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tübingen. One of Germany’s foremost interpreters of recent German thought, he has published extensively on Nietzsche. Marc Froment-Meurice is a Professor in the Department of Romance Languages, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA. Rodolphe Gasché is Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York, Buffalo. His books include The Tain of the Mirror and Inventions of Difference. David Farrell Krell is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, Chicago. He is the author of, amongst other works, Daimon Life: Heidegger and Life-Philosophy and Lunar Voices: Of Tragedy, Poetry, Fiction and Thought. ix Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe is Professor of Philosophy at the Université des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg. Since the appearance of his first essays on and translations of Hölderlin in the 1970s, he has been one of the leading interpreters of Hölderlin in France. Amongst his most recent works are Musica ficta (figures de Wagner) and Metaphrasis. In English his publications include The Literary Absolute and Retreating the Political (both co-authored with Jean-Luc Nancy), Typography, Heidegger, Art and Politics and The Subject of Philosophy. Will McNeill is Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, Chicago. He has translated or co-translated several Heidegger volumes, and is author of The Glance of the Eye: Heidegger, Aristotle, and the Ends of Theory. Simon Sparks is a Leverhulme Trust Research Scholar at the Université des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg. He is the co-editor of On Jean- Luc Nancy and editor and co-translator of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy’s Retreating the Political. Acknowledgements The impetus for the essays collected in this volume was the conference ‘On Tragedy’ held at the University of Warwick on 24 May 1995. The contributions from Miguel de Beistegui, Françoise Dastur and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe are more or less modified versions of the papers delivered there. The volume was also to have included Marc Froment-Meurice’s ‘Antigone: In (the) Place of Tragedy’, included in his C’est-à-dire (Paris: Galilée, 1996) and now available in translation as That Is to Say (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999). Versions of the essays
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