Tragic Play: Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett

Christoph Menke

July, 2009
Cloth, 248 pages, 0 halftones, 0 color illus., 0 line drawings, 0 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-14556-5
$55.00 / £38.00

"Christoph Menke develops tragedy as a modern mode of understanding in new and interesting ways. His ideas should generate quite a bit of debate not only in philosophy but also in literary studies and social theory." — Fred Rush, University of Notre Dame

"Tragic Play is philosophical while also being informed by classical scholarship and aesthetic and dramaturgical theory. It is ambitious and accessible, as well as exciting." — Martin Donougho, University of South Carolina

"Christoph Menke's theoretical framework is extremely dense and far-reaching, with a powerfully and consistently built argument that includes textual analyses offering interesting insights." — Boris Gasparov, Columbia University

Related Subjects

• Aesthetics
• Literary Criticism and Theory

Series

• Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

About the Author

Christoph Menke is professor of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt am Main. His publications in English include The Sovereignty of Art, Aesthetic Negativity in Adorno and Derrida, and Reflections of Equality.

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