CHAPTER THREE. “From Ignorance to Knowledge”: Penelope’s Poetological Epistemology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. Overview of Contents xiii
4. Abbreviations xv
5. A Note on Translations and Orthography xvii
6. Introduction: Performing Recognition 1
7. Part I. Marking the Limits of Recognition: Between Aristotle and the Odyssey
8. Introduction 21
9. CHAPTER ONE. “Just as the Name Itself Signifies”: Under the Sign of Nostalgia 25
10. CHAPTER TWO. “Recognition Is a Change”: Performance in Motion 54
11. CHAPTER THREE. “From Ignorance to Knowledge”: Penelope’s Poetological Epistemology 84
12. CHAPTER FOUR. “Into Friendship or Enmity”: An Ethics of Authentic Deception 103
13. CHAPTER FIVE. “For Those Bound for Good or Bad Fortune”: Casualties of Recognition 120
14. Part II. Outing Interiority: Modern Recognitions
15. Introduction 129
16. CHAPTER SIX. Self-Knowledge between Plato and Shakespeare: Alcibiades I and Troilus and Cressida 133
17. CHAPTER SEVEN. Metamorphoses of Recognition: Goethe’s “Fortunate Event” 150
18. CHAPTER EIGHT. Epistemologies of Recognition: Goethe’s Iphigenie auf Tauris and the Spectacle of Catharsis 176
19. CHAPTER NINE. Politics of Recognition: Friends, Enemies, and Goethe’s Iphigenie 195
20. CHAPTER TEN. The Fate of Recognition: Kleist’s Penthesilea 218
21. Concluding Reflections: Signifying Silence in Blumenberg and Kafka 243
22. Acknowledgments 251
23. Notes 255
24. Bibliography 297
25. Index 311
26. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 321