The Death of Empedocles: A Mourning-play

On the eve of his final odes and hymns, Friedrich Holderlin composed three versions of a dramatic poem on the suicide of the early Greek thinker, Empedocles of Acragas. This book offers the first complete translation of the three versions, along with translations of Holderlin's essays on the theory of tragedy. David Farrell Krell gives readers a brief chronology of Holderlin's life, an introduction to the life and thought of Empedocles-including Holderlin's Empedocles-detailed explanatory notes, and an analysis of the play and the theoretical essays, allowing for a full appreciation of this classic of world literature and philosophy. Book jacket.

David Farrell Krell is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the author and editor of many books also published by SUNY Press

Preface	p. vii
Friedrich Holderlin: A Brief Chronology	p. xiii
General Introduction	p. 1
The Frankfurt Plan	p. 27
The Death of Empedocles, First Version	p. 35
The Death of Empedocles, Second Version	p. 111
Essays toward a Theory of the Tragic	p. 139
The Tragic Ode	p. 142
The General Basis [of Tragic Drama]	p. 142
The Basis of Empedocles	p. 144
The Fatherland in Decline	p. 153
Plan of the Third Version of The Death of Empedocles	p. 161
The Death of Empedocles, Third Version	p. 169
Sketch toward the Continuation of the Third Version	p. 191
Facsimile Pages from Der Tod des Empedokles	p. 197
Notes	p. 221
Analysis	p. 275
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