Whom Gods Destroy: Elements of Greek and Tragic Madness - Hardcover

Whom Gods Destroy: Elements of Greek and Tragic Madness.

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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover with dust jacket. Zustand: Gut. XVIII, 276 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag leicht berieben, sonst sehr gut und sauber / dust jacket slightly rubbed, otherwise very good and clean. - Madness is central to Western tragedy in all epochs, but we find the origins of this centrality in early Greece: in Homeric insight into the "damage a damaged mind can do." Greece, and especially tragedy, gave the West its permanent perception of madness as violent and damaging. Drawing on her deep knowledge of anthropology, psychoanalysis, Shakespeare, and the history of madness, as well as of Greek language and literature, Ruth Padel probes the Greek language of madness, which is fundamental to tragedy: translating, making it reader-friendly to nonspecialists, and showing how Greek images continued through medieval and Renaissance societies into a "rough tragic grammar" of madness in the modern period. This intensely poetic and solidly argued book is a rare source of "knowledge that it is sad to have to know." It focuses on the problematic relation of madness and God, discussing en route such topics as the double bind, black bile and melancholy, the Derrida-Foucault debate on writing (about) madness, Christian folly, "fine frenzy," shamanism, psychoanalysts on tragedy, St. Paul on God s "hardening the heart," links between madness and murder, pollution and syphilis, and the Irish for "mad." / CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations Chapter 1 Introduction: "He First Makes Mad" "Quern Deus Vult Perdere" A Theater of Mad Gods Part 1: Language and, Timing Chapter 2 Tragic Madness Words Normality Compound Nouns Oistros and Io Lussa and Heracles Mania: A Fit of Madness Adjectives Chapter 3 God of the Verb Madness Verbs and "God Of" Participles: The Pre-Eminence of the Verb Madness Is Temporary, and Known by Its Appearance Chapter 4 Temporary versus Long-term Madness Chronic Susceptibility Io and Orestes Cassandra Temporary and Long-term: The Differences Medicine Narrative Part 2: Darkness and Vision Chapter 5 Inner Shadow Madness Is Black Hellebore, Black Bile Black Anger Melancholia Chapter 6 The Afterlife of Inner Blackness "Problem 30" Black Star, Black Sun "Where There Is Lytel Light" Black Tragedy Chapter 7 Dark, Twisted Seeing Darkness: Consciousness, or Its Loss? Ajax: Madness and Sight Ajax the Shadow "Destroy Us in the Light" "Twisted" Seeing Bad as Good, Beloved as Enemy Chapter 8 True Seeing What Others Cannot See: Cassandra, Orestes, Io "Fine Frenzy" and Plato s Phaedrus Mania Classified by Human Activity Mania Classified by Gods Chapter 9 A Legacy of True Mad Seeing Seeing "A Country of Truth": Democritus at Abdera Melancholic Divination and Christian Folly Who Gets Any "Goods" from What Madness Sees? Part 3: Isolation: Wandering, Disharmony, Pollution Chapter 10 Stone: Madness Is Outside Distance Stone On the Aleian Plain "All through Ireland" Madness as "Wandering" Chapter 11 "Alienus": Resonances of Mad Wandering Resonances of Wandering Centrifugal, Centripetal: Two Patterns of Punishment Alienation Idios: "The Black Bird Goes Alone" Chapter 12 Inner Wandering Inner and Outer Para and Ek: The Mind Aside, Out of Place Ekstasis and Shamanism Entheos, Enthousiasmos The Mind Damaged, Lost Outside and Inside The Wandering Womb Chapter 13 Daemonic Dance "Der Rhythmus der Disharmonie" Joined-Up Dancing "The Song of Erinyes" Disorder through Order Stage Syntax of Madness "Unmusical Music" Nonhuman Passion Chapter 14 Skin: Pollution and Shame Boundaries Skin-Sores Miasma and Divine Hostility "In the Conjunction" Purifying Shame Chapter 15 Disease, Passion Disease as Daimon Madness as Disease Phaedra: A "Diseased Lying-Down" "Eros Doubled": Madness as Passion Part 4: Damage Chapter 16 Mind Damage before Tragedy Ate as "Harm" Inner and Outer, Concrete and Abstract, Mental and Physical "I Was Damaged" Something Lost, Something Added Chapter 17 Homer s Damage-Chain The Atc-Sequence Ate, Wine, and Sleep "I ll Hate You as Deeply as I ve Loved You" "And Then": Ate as Consequence Personifying the Damage-Chain The Two "Stages" and Their Divine Options Homeric versus Archaic Weight Penalty, Harvest, Daughter Chapter 18 The Two Roles of Madness Ate s Replacements: Deception, Erinys, Madness and Tragedy Tragedy as AC-Sequence Madness as Instrument and Punishment of Crime "Hyperbolic" and "Real" Madness Chapter 19 "Haywire City" "Some Big Hamartia" Tragic "Mistaking" Ignoring Gods, Fighting Gods Ate, Madness, Hamartia Self-Neglect, Self-Damage Child Murder Chapter 20 Divine Double Bind Daemonic Self-Conflict Divinity Is Conflict Double Bind Caught in the Cross-fire: Orestes and Io Part 5: Madness: A Rough Tragic Grammar Chapter 21 Mad in Another World "To Feel for Bearings": Other People s Madness Divinity versus Moral Mismanagement Self-Validation: Psychoanalysis and Anachronism Retreat from Truth Making the Smoke a Door: Respecting Tragedy s Terms Chapter 22 Knowledge That Is Sad to Have to Know Terrors of the Earth In the Mad God s Theater: Taking Illusion for Reality "Tragic Fall" "Disease of Heroes" Truth from Illusion, Truth from Pain Madness and the Tragedy-Producing Society "The Scream" Appendix Are in Tragedy: The Thinning of the Word Aeschylus: From "Recklessness" and Its Punishment to "Doom," or Instrument of Doom Sophocles: "Calamity" "Disaster," "Grief" Euripides: "Doom," "Death," and Agent or Instrument of Destruction Disaster: The Tragic Weight of Ate Works Cited Index. ISBN 9780691033600 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 540. Artikel-Nr. 1189118

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