Hegel On Tragedy

Author : G. W. F. Hegel
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810124912

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Hegel on Hamann by G. W. F. Hegel Pdf

"Philosophers, theologians, and literary critics welcome Anderson's stunning translation since Hamann is gaining renewed attention, not only as a key figure of German intellectual history, but also as an early forerunner of postmodern thought. Relationships between Enlightenment, Counter Enlightenment, and Idealism come to the fore as Hegel reflects on Hamann's critiques of his contemporaries Immanuel Kant, Moses Mendelssohn, J.G. Herder, and F.H. Jacobi." "This book is essential both for readers of Hegel or Hamann and for those interested in the history of German thought, the philosophy of religion, language and hermeneutics, or friendship as a philosophical category."--Jacket.

Author : Martin Thibodeau
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739177297

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Hegel and Greek Tragedy by Martin Thibodeau Pdf

This study is concerned with the different interpretations of Greek tragedy proposed by G.W.F. Hegel. While Hegel's philosophical interest in tragedy as an art form is well known, the motivation for his preoccupation with this art form needs to be further explored. Indeed, why would Hegel, a pivotal figure of German idealism, be inclined to concern himself with a form of poetry that reached its peak in the 5th century B.C.' Precisely this question forms the core of this book. It articulates what the primary stakes are and thereby develop and defend the thesis that Hegel's examination of Greece and tragedy is one that has a direct bearing on the "fate" of politics in the modern world.

Author : Mark Alznauer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438483382

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Hegel on Tragedy and Comedy by Mark Alznauer Pdf

No philosopher has treated the subject of tragedy and comedy in as original and searching a manner as G. W. F. Hegel. His concern with these genres runs throughout both his early and late works and extends from aesthetic issues to questions in the history of society and religion. Hegel on Tragedy and Comedy is the first book to explore the full extent of Hegel's interest in tragedy and comedy. The contributors analyze his treatment of both ancient and modern drama, including major essays on Sophocles, Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Goethe, and the German comedic tradition, and examine the relation of these genres to political, religious, and philosophical issues. In addition, the volume includes several essays on the role tragedy and comedy play in Hegel's philosophy of history. This book will not only be valuable to those who wish for a general overview of Hegel's treatment of tragedy and comedy but also to those who want to understand how his treatment of these genres is connected to the rest of his thought.

Author : Georg W. F. Hegel
Publisher : Digireads.Com
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1420947877

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Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics by Georg W. F. Hegel Pdf

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a late 18th and early 19th century German philosopher, was one of the foremost thinkers of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism. He created a framework known as Absolute Idealism that was able to account for the relation of the mind, nature, art, the state, and history. Ultimately, he believed that the mind was comprised of several contradictory but unified ideas that did not cancel each other out or reduce each other's importance. According to Hegel, art revealed the fundamental nature of existence, but he felt that art and its significance were in decline. He wrote that art gives a physical and sensory depiction of the Absolute; it offers an effortless combination of form and content while giving viewers the ability to see the world in a form that doesn't actually exist. Hegel's "Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics," divides his most basic ideas on art into five chapters with multiple parts outlining his complex, but revolutionary, mindset and opinions. Like many philosophers, Hegel's words are written with other philosophers in mind; the arguments and counterarguments are in relation to the other philosophical theories of the time. Anyone interested in art history or philosophy will find this work highly informative.

Author : Robert R. Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199656059

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Tragedy, Recognition, and the Death of God by Robert R. Williams Pdf

Robert R. Williams offers a bold new account of divergences and convergences in the work of Hegel and Nietzsche. He explores four themes - the philosophy of tragedy; recognition and community; critique of Kant; and the death of God - and explicates both thinkers' critiques of traditional theology and metaphysics.

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : New York : Harper & Row
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Tragedy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036452485

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Hegel on Tragedy by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pdf

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1978-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313200892

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Hegel on Tragedy by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pdf

Author : Walter Kaufmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691020051

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Tragedy and Philosophy by Walter Kaufmann Pdf

A critical re-examination of the views of Plato, Aristotle, Hegel and Nietzsche on tragedy. Ancient Greek tragedy is revealed as surprisingly modern and experimental, while such concepts as mimesis, catharsis, hubris and the tragic collision are discussed from different perspectives.

Author : Derek W. M. Barker
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791477403

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Tragedy and Citizenship by Derek W. M. Barker Pdf

Tragedy and Citizenship provides a wide-ranging exploration of attitudes toward tragedy and their implications for politics. Derek W. M. Barker reads the history of political thought as a contest between the tragic view of politics that accepts conflict and uncertainty, and an optimistic perspective that sees conflict as self-dissolving. Drawing on Aristotle's political thought, alongside a novel reading of the Antigone that centers on Haemon, its most neglected character, Barker provides contemporary democratic theory with a theory of tragedy. He sees Hegel's philosophy of reconciliation as a critical turning point that results in the elimination of citizenship. By linking Hegel's failure to address the tragic dimensions of politics to Richard Rorty, John Rawls, and Judith Butler, Barkeroffers a major reassessment of contemporary political theory and a fresh perspective on the most urgent challenges facing democratic politics. Derek W. M. Barker is a program officer at the Kettering Foundation.

Author : Andrew Cooper
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438461908

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The Tragedy of Philosophy by Andrew Cooper Pdf

Reframes philosophical understanding of, and engagement with, tragedy. In The Tragedy of Philosophy Andrew Cooper challenges the prevailing idea of the death of tragedy, arguing that this assumption reflects a problematic view of both tragedy and philosophy—one that stifles the profound contribution that tragedy could provide to philosophy today. To build this case, Cooper presents a novel reading of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgment. Although this text is normally understood as the final attempt to seal philosophy from the threat of tragedy, Cooper argues that Kant’s project is rather a creative engagement with a tragedy that is specific to philosophy, namely, the inevitable failure of attempts to master nature through knowledge. Kant’s encounter with the tragedy of philosophy turns philosophy’s gaze from an exclusive focus on knowledge to matters of living well in a world that does not bend itself to our desires. Tracing the impact of Kant’s Critique of Judgment on some of the most famous theories of tragedy, including those of G. W. F. Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Cornelius Castoriadis, Cooper demonstrates how these philosophers extend the project found in both Kant and the Greek tragedies: the attempt to grasp nature as a domain hospitable to human life. Andrew Cooper is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bonn, Germany.

Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781524747954

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Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us by Simon Critchley Pdf

From the moderator of The New York Times philosophy blog "The Stone," a book that argues that if we want to understand ourselves we have to go back to theater, to the stage of our lives Tragedy presents a world of conflict and troubling emotion, a world where private and public lives collide and collapse. A world where morality is ambiguous and the powerful humiliate and destroy the powerless. A world where justice always seems to be on both sides of a conflict and sugarcoated words serve as cover for clandestine operations of violence. A world rather like our own. The ancient Greeks hold a mirror up to us, in which we see all the desolation and delusion of our lives but also the terrifying beauty and intensity of existence. This is not a time for consolation prizes and the fatuous banalities of the self-help industry and pop philosophy. Tragedy allows us to glimpse, in its harsh and unforgiving glare, the burning core of our aliveness. If we give ourselves the chance to look at tragedy, we might see further and more clearly.

Author : Richard Halpern
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226433790

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Eclipse of Action by Richard Halpern Pdf

According to traditional accounts, the history of tragedy is itself tragic: following a miraculous birth in fifth-century Athens and a brilliant resurgence in the early modern period, tragic drama then falls into a marked decline. While disputing the notion that tragedy has died, this wide-ranging study argues that it faces an unprecedented challenge in modern times from an unexpected quarter: political economy. Since Aristotle, tragedy has been seen as uniquely exhibiting the importance of action for human happiness. Beginning with Adam Smith, however, political economy has claimed that the source of happiness is primarily production. Eclipse of Action examines the tense relations between action and production, doing and making, in playwrights from Aeschylus, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Milton to Beckett, Arthur Miller, and Sarah Kane. Richard Halpern places these figures in conversation with works by Aristotle, Smith, Hegel, Marx, Hannah Arendt, Georges Bataille, and others in order to trace the long history of the ways in which economic thought and tragic drama interact.

Author : Peter Szondi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804743959

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An Essay on the Tragic by Peter Szondi Pdf

This is a succinct and elegant argument for the specificity of a philosophy of tragedy, as opposed to a poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle.

Author : Joshua Billings
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691176369

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Genealogy of the Tragic by Joshua Billings Pdf

Why did Greek tragedy and "the tragic" come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity? And how has this belief affected modern understandings of Greek drama? In Genealogy of the Tragic, Joshua Billings answers these and related questions by tracing the emergence of the modern theory of the tragic, which was first developed around 1800 by thinkers associated with German Idealism. The book argues that the idea of the tragic arose in response to a new consciousness of history in the late eighteenth century, which spurred theorists to see Greek tragedy as both a unique, historically remote form and a timeless literary genre full of meaning for the present. The book offers a new interpretation of the theories of Schiller, Schelling, Hegel, Hölderlin, and others, as mediations between these historicizing and universalizing impulses, and shows the roots of their approaches in earlier discussions of Greek tragedy in Germany, France, and England. By examining eighteenth-century readings of tragedy and the interactions between idealist thinkers in detail, Genealogy of the Tragic offers the most comprehensive historical account of the tragic to date, as well as the fullest explanation of why and how the idea was used to make sense of modernity. The book argues that idealist theories remain fundamental to contemporary interpretations of Greek tragedy, and calls for a renewed engagement with philosophical questions in criticism of tragedy.

Author : Jennifer Ann Bates
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438432434

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Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination by Jennifer Ann Bates Pdf

Study of self-consciousness in Hegel and Shakespeare.