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 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.

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