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Hegel on tragedy and comedy : new essays
Title
Hegel on tragedy and comedy : new essays / edited by Mark Alznauer.
ISBN
9781438483375
1438483376
9781438483382
Publication
Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
Physical Description
292 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"Explores the full extent of Hegel's interest in tragedy and comedy throughout his works and extends from more literary and dramatic issues to questions about the role these genres play in the history of society and religion"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 20, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
I. Tragedy. The beauty of fate and its reconciliation : Hegel's Der Geist des Christentums und sein Schicksal and Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris / Douglas Finn
Two early interpretations of Hegel's theory of Greek tragedy : Hinrichs and Goethe / Eric v. d. Luft
Hegel and the origins of critical theory : Aeschylus and tragedy in Hegel's Natural Law essay / Wes Furlotte
The tragedy of sex (for Hegel) / Antón Barba-Kay
Substantial ends and choices without a will : Greek tragedy as archetype of tragic drama / Allegra de Laurentiis
Freedom and fixity in Shakespeare's tragic heroes / Rachel Falkenstern
II. Comedy. Taking the ladder down : Hegel on comedy and religious experience / Peter Wake
From comedy to Christianity : the nihilism of Aristophanic laughter / Paul T. Wilford
Hegel and 'the other comedy' / Martin Donougho
The comedy of public opinion in Hegel / Jeffrey Church
III. History. Hegel's tragic conception of world history / Fiacha D. Heneghan
Tragedy and the world-historical individual's right of revolutionary action / Jason M. Yonover
Philosophy, comedy, and history : Hegel's Aristophanic modernity / C. Allen Speight.
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