Allen Speight argues that behind Hegel's extraordinary appeal to literature in the Phenomenology of Spirit lies a philosophical project concerned with understanding human agency in the modern world. It shows that Hegel looked to three literary genres--tragedy, comedy, and the romantic novel--as offering privileged access to three moments of human agency: retrospectivity, theatricality, and forgiveness. Taking full account of the authors that Hegel himself refers to (Sophocles, Diderot, Schlegel, Jacobi), Allen Speight has written a book with a broad appeal to both philosophers and literary theorists.
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Allen Speight argues that behind Hegel's extraordinary appeal to literature in the Phenomenology of Spirit lies a philosophical project concerned with understanding human agency in the modern world. It shows that Hegel looked to three literary genres--tragedy, comedy, and the romantic novel--as offering privileged access to three moments of human agency: retrospectivity, theatricality, and forgiveness.Taking full account of the authors that Hegel himself refers to (Sophocles, Diderot, Schlegel, Jacobi), Allen Speight has written a book with a broad appeal to both philosophers and literary theorists.
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Cambridge University Press, Don Quixote, Karl Moor, Philosophy of Right, Philosophy of Subjective Spirit, Hegel's Phenomenology, Phenomenology of Spirit, Friedrich Schlegel, Hegel's Ladder, Robert Pippin, University of Chicago Press, Rameau's Nephew, Otto Pöggeler, New York, Oxford University Press, Phänomenologie des Geistes, Hegel's Antigone, Terry Pinkard, Clarendon Press, Begriffne Geschichte, Testing Laws, The Fool's Truth, Cornell University Press, Michael Schulte, Jean-Jacques Rousseau Browse Sample Pages:
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active reason, ethical order, absolute knowing, overcoming theatricality, tragic agent, modern ethical life, stress mine, modern agency, desire formation, subjective spirit, literary turn, practical identity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge University Press, Don Quixote, Karl Moor, Philosophy of Right, Philosophy of Subjective Spirit, Hegel's Phenomenology, Phenomenology of Spirit, Friedrich Schlegel, Hegel's Ladder, Robert Pippin, University of Chicago Press, Rameau's Nephew, Otto Pöggeler, New York, Oxford University Press, Phänomenologie des Geistes, Hegel's Antigone, Terry Pinkard, Clarendon Press, Begriffne Geschichte, Testing Laws, The Fool's Truth, Cornell University Press, Michael Schulte, Jean-Jacques Rousseau Browse Sample Pages:
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- Bound by Recognition by Patchen Markell in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Foucault and Classical Antiquity: Power, Ethics and Knowledge (Modern European Philosophy) by Wolfgang Detel in Front Matter
- Theories of Judgment: Psychology, Logic, Phenomenology (Modern European Philosophy) by Wayne Martin in Front Matter
- Kant's Cosmopolitan Theory of Law and Peace (Modern European Philosophy) by Otfried Hoffe in Front Matter
- Hegel's Concept of Action (Modern European Philosophy) by Michael Quante in Front Matter
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