The Tragic Before the Tragic
Abstract
It is generally assumed that the tragic becomes a philosophical theory at the end of the eighteenth century, when Schelling and Hegel consider a genre (the tragedy) and draw from it a philosophical thought (the tragic). Before then, writes Szondi, there was no theory of the tragic, but only a poetics of the tragedy. I do not wish to criticize this assumption but rather to show that, before the philosophy of the tragic, there was an idea of the tragic (though fragmented and non systematic) that influenced and prepared its theory. In this paper, I will study its origins and its development through the analysis of the early modern uses of the words tragedy and tragic.
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