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The Redemption of Tragedy: The Literary Vision of Simone Weil.

・ISBN 978-0-7914-2282-3 paper US$ 33.95

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著者・編者 Brueck, Katherine T.,
シリーズ (SUNY series, Simone Weil Studies)
出版社 (State University of New York Press, US)
出版年 1994
ページ数 185 pp.
ニュース番号 <L25-38427>

Simone Weil's supernaturalist interpretations of tragedy challenge not only the philosophical skepticism but also the religious rationalism characteristic of the modern age.

This book boldly points out a supernaturalist alternative to contemporary, post-structuralist literary theory. This study of classical tragic drama offers a sacralizing impetus to secular discussions of literature. The book's Platonic premises and its grounding in the transcendental outlook of the religious traditions furnish a sacred illumination. Religious mystery and the cross of Christ both overshadow and deepen philosophical approaches to literary criticism, including theories of tragedy.

Simone Weil's conception of tragic art, rooted in a mystical Christian metaphysics, offers original insight into the nature of tragedy. In contradiction of the prevailing secular outlook, Weil regards classical tragedy as a sacred art form. Tragic masterpieces evoke not the chaotic or irrational, as modernist interpreters hold, but rather a good which is absolute