Philosophy and Tragedy by Beistegui Miguel de Sparks Simon

Author:Beistegui, Miguel de,Sparks, Simon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published: 2000-07-22T16:00:00+00:00

And I will simply add two brief remarks:

(1) The situation which Hölderlin is describing here as being that of the poet—infinite enthusiasm, die unendliche Begeisterung, suffocating and blasphemous—is precisely the situation he recognises in Sophocles, as the essence of tragic hubris, immoderation and transgression. This is particularly the case with Antigone.

(2) Under the principle of oppositions, and in the name of ‘foreign matter’, Hölderlin does indeed evoke ‘another world, alien events, alien characters’ (all elements, consequently, proper to an effective dramaturgy); but this ‘similitude’, he adds immediately, this analogical or symbolic similitude, is ‘heterogeneous only in outer form’. The ‘composition of actions’, in other words, ought to remain simply formal for—and this is the explanation he gives—‘if this intense affinity of the symbol with the matter, the characteristic intensity in which the ground of the image lies, were not evident, then its distance, its alien form, could no longer be explained’.

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