The Death of Empedocles

On the eve of his final odes and hymns, Friedrich Hölderlin 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 Hölderlin's essays on the theory of tragedy. David Farrell Krell gives readers a brief chronology of Hölderlin's life, an introduction to the life and thought of Empedocles--including Hölderlin'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.

Author: Friedrich Holderlin
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 07/01/2009
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780791476482

About the Author
David Farrell Krell is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the author and editor of many books, including the SUNY Press titles The Recalcitrant Art: Diotima's Letters to Hölderlin and Related Missives Edited and Translated by Douglas F. Kenney and Sabine Menner-Bettscheid; Archeticture: Ecstasies of Space, Time, and the Human Body; Nietzsche: A Novel; and Son of Spirit: A Novel.

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