Werner Jaeger o tragedii greckiej i tragizmie

Abstract

Werner Jaeger represented the modern paradigme dominated by individualism, historicism, nationality. He interpreted the Greek tragedy in modern categories. Accordingly to filhellenism he connected to Greece the unity of subject and object contrasted to dualism of subject and object attributed to Christianity. He used the opposition of theocentrism and anthropocentrism derived from the reneissance and reformation. To him the tragedy was totally determined by the Greek national history. He distinguished three periods in the Greece history: mythical, rationalistic and theological. The tragedy, related with the myth, recorded the dialectical transition from the mythical period to the rationalistic one. To explain the Greece tragedy Jaeger began from the assumption of drastic asymmetry between this world and the next.