Contents

pp.：  7 – 10

Series Preface

pp.：  11 – 12

Editors' Preface

pp.：  13 – 22

Introduction: Tragedy and Hope (Terry Eagleton)

pp.：  23 – 28

PART ONE THE POLIS AS THE LOCUS OF TRAGEDY

pp.：  29 – 30

Locus Tragicus: The Problem of Place in Greek Tragedy (David Janssens)

pp.：  31 – 50

How to Perform the Polis? Tragedy as the Locus of Deception (Bram Van Oostveldt and Stijn Bussels)

pp.：  51 – 66

PART TWO THE EARLY MODERN LOCUS OF TRAGEDY

pp.：  67 – 68

The Tragic Representation of the Prince: The Political Theology of Ernst Kantorowicz and the Theatricality of Absolutism (Klaas Tindemans)

pp.：  69 – 86

Early Modern Oedipus: A Literary Approach to Christian Tragedy (Enrica Zanin)

pp.：  87 – 102

Tragédie classique, souveraineté et droit: Le cas de Britannicus (1669) de Jean Racine (Karel Vanhaesebrouck)

pp.：  103 – 124

PART THREE TRAGEDY AND MODERNITY

pp.：  125 – 126

Modernity in Hölderlin's Remarks on Oedipus and Antigone (Frans van Peperstraten)

pp.：  127 – 142

Is the Tragic Always the Tragic? Kierkegaard on Antiquity and Modernity in Shakespeare (Adam Wood)

pp.：  143 – 160

Tragedy, Community Art, and Musikorgiasmus: Examining the Language of Nietzsche's Die Geburt der Tragödie (Thomas Crombez)

pp.：  161 – 172

Nietzsche and the Paradox of Tragedy (Robrecht Vandemeulebroecke)

pp.：  173 – 184

PART FOUR TRAGEDY AND ANTROPOLOGY

pp.：  185 – 186

Selfhood as the Locus of the Tragic in Paul Ricoeur's Soi-même comme un autre (Arthur Cools)

pp.：  187 – 202

The Tragic is Always the Tragic: Kierkegaard and Lacan on a Modern Antigone (Paul Vanden Berghe)

pp.：  203 – 218

Tragic Choices: Fate, Oedipus, and Beyond (Jens De Vleminck)

pp.：  219 – 236

PART FIVE TRAGEDY AND MODERN LITERATURE

pp.：  237 – 238

Noises Off: On Ibsen (Simon Critchley)

pp.：  239 – 254

The Tragic Heroism of Captain Ahab (Daniel Shaw)

pp.：  255 – 266

The Tragedy of Having a Lover: The Crystallization of Odette and Albertine in À la Recherche du temps perdu (Rosa Slegers)

pp.：  267 – 284

Incest and Plague: Tragic Weapons Turned Against Tragedy in Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty (Laurens De Vos)

pp.：  285 – 298

PART SIX THE EXPERIENCE OF THE TRAGIC IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE

pp.：  299 – 300

Prometheus Unbound: The Rebirth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Technology (Jos de Mul)

pp.：  301 – 320

Laughing Matters: The Unstoppable Rise of the Comic Perspective (Johan Taels)

pp.：  321 – 340

What Should Be Said of Tragedy Today? (Dennis J. Schmidt)

pp.：  341 – 356