"An unaccountable pleasure": Hume on tragedy and the passions

Hume Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 335-354

  Neill, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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References (9)

1. "Of Tragedy," in Hume's Essays Moral, Political and Litera,y, ed. Eugene F. Miller (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, revised edition 1987): 216 - 217. (Hereafter, page references in the text to "Of Tragedy," cited as "OT", will be to this edition.)
2. See my "Hume's 'singular Phcnomenon'," British Journal of Aesthetics 39. 2 (1999), 112-125.
3. David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, edited by L. A. Selby-Bigge, 2nd ed. revised by P. H. Nidditch (Oxford: Clarendon, 1978): 115, emphasis added. He makes a similar point in the Appendix to the Treatise, 631. (Hereafter page references to the Treatise, cited as "T," will be in the text.)
4. Malcolm Budd, "Hume's Tragic Emotions," Hume Studies 17.2 (1991): 93 - 106. The quotation is from 93. (Further references to this article, cited as "Budd," will be in the text.)
5. Flint Schier, "The Claims of Tragedy: An Essay in Moral Psychology and Aesthetic Theory," Philosophical Papers 18.1 (1989), 7 - 26. The quotation is from 15.
6. Flint Schier, "Tragedy and the Community of Sentiment," in Philosophy and Fiction: Essays in Literary Aesthetics, edited by Peter Lamarque (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1983), 76.
7. Aristotle, The Art of Rhetoric, translated by H. C. Lawson-Tancred (Penguin Books, 1991), 153 and 163.
8. Schier, "Tragedy and the Community of Sentiment," 79.
9. Mark Packer interprets "Of Tragedy" along these lines in "Dissolving the Paradox of Tragedy," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 47.3 (1989), 21 1 - 219.