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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."
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The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of H lderlin's poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays.
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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 H lderlin 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.