RT Article
T1 Re-reading Tragedy in a Time of Extinction: The Erinyes, Chthonic Justice, and the "Eternity" of Nature
JF Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
VO 18
IS 1
SP 130
OP 148
A1 Wiseman, Wendy A. ca. 20./21.Jh.
LA English
PB Equinox Publ.
YR 2024
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1883072743
AB As a palliative to despair over climatic and biospheric collapse, classical tragedy, particularly that of Aeschylus and Sophocles, may continue to serve its cathartic function when read in light of Friedrich Nietzsche’s theory of tragedy, in which, through catastrophe, "Nature" is revealed as "eternally powerful and pleasurable", despite all change and loss. Aeschylus' Oresteia illuminates this divine, chthonic powerin the chorus of the Erinyes (Furies), the "terrible goddesses", who uphold the cosmic order with their power to blight or to bless. Under the shadow of Anthropocenic destruction of entangled life-worlds, the Erinyes emerge as transvalued champions of Earth's primacy, under the sign of justice.
K1 Aeschylus
K1 Climate Change
K1 Dionysus
K1 Erinyes
K1 Mass Extinction
K1 Nietzsche
K1 Oresteia
K1 Tragedy
K1 Extinction
K1 Nature
DO 10.1558/jsrnc.23394