Required texts
Sophocles, Oidipus and Antigone (in Sophocles I, Griffith and Most translation, Chicago UP, 2013)
Hamlet, Hamlet (any edition)
Schiller, ”On the Art of Tragedy,” “On the sublime” (in Friedrich Schiller, Essays, Continuum, 2001)*
Herder, “Shakespeare” *
Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, “Ethical Life” in the section on “Spirit”. Terry Pinkard’s draft translation available online is recommended.
Hegel, Aesthetics. Lectures on Fine Art, trans. Knox, Oxford University Press, 1998. Excerpts from “The Independence of the Individual Character” (vol. 1) and “the Genres of Dramatic Poetry” (vol. 2).
Kierkegaard, ”Det antikke tragiskes reflex i det moderne tragiske” (from Either/Or)*
Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy. Cambridge UP, 1999.
Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics. Yale UP, 2014. Ch. 4, “The Restriction of Being”.
Recommended supporting texts:
Andrew Bowie, Aesthetics and Subjectivity. Manchester U.P., 2013
* = indicates that the text will be available electronically for UiO students, in line with copyright restrictions, either via UB or Fronter.
Other shorter texts might be included and circulated in the seminar.