Friedrich Holderlin 
The Death of Empedocles 
A Mourning-Play

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.

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Preface

Friedrich Hölderlin: A Brief Chronology

General Introduction

1. The Frankfurt Plan

2. The Death of Empedocles, First Version

3. The Death of Empedocles, Second Version

4. Essays toward a Theory of the Tragic

The Tragic Ode
The General Basis of Tragic Drama
The Basis of Empedocles
The Fatherland in Decline

5. Plan of the Third Version of The Death of Empedocles

6. The Death of Empedocles, Third Version

7. Sketch toward the Continuation of the Third Version

Facsimile Pages from Der Tod des Empedokles
Notes
Analysis

O autorze

David Farrell Krell is Professor of Philosophy at De Paul 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.