Tragedy In Hegel S Early Theological Writings

Author : Peter Wake
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 272 pages
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Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253012616

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Tragedy in Hegel's Early Theological Writings by Peter Wake Pdf

“Wake argues, the young Hegel experimented with using tragedy as a diagnostic tool to explain the rise and fall of religions and even history itself.” —Hegel Bulletin Tragedy plays a central role in Hegel’s early writings on theology and politics. Hegel’s overarching aim in these texts is to determine the kind of mythology that would best complement religious and political freedom in modernity. Peter Wake claims that, for Hegel at this early stage, ancient Greek tragedy provided the model for such a mythology and suggested a way to oppose the rigid hierarchies and authoritarianism that characterized Europe of his day. Wake follows Hegel as he develops his idea of the essence of Christianity and its relation to the distinctly tragic expression of beauty found in Greek mythology. “Elegant. Combines the virtues of close reading of extraordinary subtlety with a wide-angle scope not only to Hegel’s work as a whole, but also to the enduring value of the early work.” —Cyril J. O’Regan, University of Notre Dame “Wake’s book is provocative and helpful because it sharpens appreciation of the complexity of the material in the ETW; it brings into focus tensions and contradictions in the texts. It contributes to the recognition of the subtlety and enduring importance of this early work.” —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Author : G. W. F. Hegel
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812206135

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Early Theological Writings by G. W. F. Hegel Pdf

This volume includes Hegel's most important early theological writings, though not all of the materials collected by Herman Nohl in his definitive Hegels theologische Jugendschriften (Tuebingen, 1907). The most significant omissions are a series of fragments to which Nohl give the general title "National Religion and Christianity" and the essay "Life of Jesus."

Author : Mark Alznauer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Martin Thibodeau
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Robert R. Williams
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191631061

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

Hegel and Nietzsche are two of the most important figures in philosophy and religion. Robert R. Williams challenges the view that they are mutually exclusive. He identifies four areas of convergence. First, Hegel and Nietzsche express and define modern interest in tragedy as a philosophical topic. Each seeks to correct the traditional philosophical and theological suppression of a tragic view of existence. This suppression of the tragic is required by the moral vision of the world, both in the tradition and in Kant's practical philosophy and its postulates. For both Hegel and Nietzsche, the moral vision of the world is a projection of spurious, life-negating values that Nietzsche calls the ascetic ideal, and that Hegel identifies as the spurious infinite. The moral God is the enforcer of morality. Second, while acknowledging a tragic dimension of existence, Hegel and Nietzsche nevertheless affirm that existence is good in spite of suffering. Both affirm a vision of human freedom as open to otherness and requiring recognition and community. Struggle and contestation have affirmative significance for both. Third, while the moral God is dead, this does not put an end to the God-question. Theology must incorporate the death of God as its own theme. The union of God and death expressing divine love is for Hegel the basic speculative intuition. This implies a dipolar, panentheistic concept of a tragic, suffering God, who risks, loves, and reconciles. Fourth, Williams argues that both Hegel and Nietzsche pursue theodicy, not as a justification of the moral God, but rather as a question of the meaningfulness and goodness of existence despite nihilism and despite tragic conflict and suffering. The inseparability of divine love and anguish means that reconciliation is no conflict-free harmony, but includes a paradoxical tragic dissonance: reconciliation is a disquieted bliss in disaster.

Author : Robert R. Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Christianity
ISBN : LCCN:48004598

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Early Theological Writings by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pdf

Although this volume does not comprise all the material collected and published by Nohl, it includes all Hegel's most important early theological writings.

Author : Fionnuala O’Neill Tonning,Erik Tonning,Jolyon Mitchell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004416543

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The Transformations of Tragedy by Fionnuala O’Neill Tonning,Erik Tonning,Jolyon Mitchell Pdf

The Transformations of Tragedy explores different Christian influences, from the Early Modern to Modern periods, upon the development of post-classical Western tragedy.

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1978-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313200892

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Hegel on Tragedy by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pdf

Author : David Farrell Krell
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Idealism, German
ISBN : 0253345367

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The Tragic Absolute by David Farrell Krell Pdf

Exposes the core of tragic absolutes in German Romantic and Idealist philosophy.

Author : Theodore George
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791481134

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Tragedies of Spirit by Theodore George Pdf

In Tragedies of Spirit, Theodore D. George engages Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit to explore the philosophical significance of tragedy in post-Kantian continental thought. George follows lines of inquiry originally developed by Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, and Derrida, and takes as his point of departure the concern that Hegel's speculative philosophy forms a summit of modernity that the present historical time is called to interrogate. Yet, George argues that Hegel's larger speculative ambitions in the Phenomenology compel him to turn to the resource of tragedy in order to give voice to issues of incommensurability, discontinuity, otherness, strife, and crisis. From this standpoint, Hegel's interest in the tragic proves to be more pervasive and to run deeper than has previously been recognized. The author shows that Hegel's reliance upon the tragic not only stretches and tests assumptions of speculative philosophy, but also illuminates original insights into human finitude. While situating Hegel's approach to tragedy as part of a broader response to Kant, George also contextualizes Hegel's interest in tragedy with reference to figures in German Idealism and Romanticism, such as Schelling, Hölderlin, and Schlegel.

Author : David Scott
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822386186

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Conscripts of Modernity by David Scott Pdf

At this stalled and disillusioned juncture in postcolonial history—when many anticolonial utopias have withered into a morass of exhaustion, corruption, and authoritarianism—David Scott argues the need to reconceptualize the past in order to reimagine a more usable future. He describes how, prior to independence, anticolonialists narrated the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism as romance—as a story of overcoming and vindication, of salvation and redemption. Scott contends that postcolonial scholarship assumes the same trajectory, and that this imposes conceptual limitations. He suggests that tragedy may be a more useful narrative frame than romance. In tragedy, the future does not appear as an uninterrupted movement forward, but instead as a slow and sometimes reversible series of ups and downs. Scott explores the political and epistemological implications of how the past is conceived in relation to the present and future through a reconsideration of C. L. R. James’s masterpiece of anticolonial history, The Black Jacobins, first published in 1938. In that book, James told the story of Toussaint L’Ouverture and the making of the Haitian Revolution as one of romantic vindication. In the second edition, published in the United States in 1963, James inserted new material suggesting that that story might usefully be told as tragedy. Scott uses James’s recasting of The Black Jacobins to compare the relative yields of romance and tragedy. In an epilogue, he juxtaposes James’s thinking about tragedy, history, and revolution with Hannah Arendt’s in On Revolution. He contrasts their uses of tragedy as a means of situating the past in relation to the present in order to derive a politics for a possible future.

Author : Merold Westphal
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253026613

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In Praise of Heteronomy by Merold Westphal Pdf

Recognizing the essential heteronomy of postmodern philosophy of religion, Merold Westphal argues against the assumption that human reason is universal, neutral, and devoid of presupposition. Instead, Westphal contends that any philosophy is a matter of faith and the philosophical encounter with theology arises from the very act of thinking. Relying on the work of Spinoza, Kant, and Hegel, Westphal discovers that their theologies render them mutually incompatible and their claims to be the voice of autonomous and universal reason look dubious. Westphal grapples with this plural nature of human thought in the philosophy of religion and he forwards the idea that any appeal to the divine must rest on a historical and phenomenological analysis.

Author : Liz Disley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317317326

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Hegel, Love and Forgiveness by Liz Disley Pdf

This study offers a new interpretation of Hegelian recognition focusing on positive ethical behaviours, such as love and forgiveness. Building on the work of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, Disley reassesses Hegel’s work on the subject/object dialectic and explores the previously neglected theological dimensions of his work.

Author : Simon Sparks,Miguel de Beistegui
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134654048

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Philosophy and Tragedy by Simon Sparks,Miguel de Beistegui Pdf

From Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Poetics to Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, the theme of tragedy has been subject to radically conflicting philosophical interpretations. Despite being at the heart of philosophical debate from Ancient Greece to the Nineteenth Century, however, tragedy has yet to receive proper treatment as a philosophical tradition in its own right. Philosophy and Tragedy is a compelling contribution to that oversight and the first book to address the topic in a major way. Eleven new essays by internationally renowned philosophers clearly show how time and again, major thinkers have returned to tragedy in many of their key works. Philosophy and Tragedy aks why it is that thinkers as far apart as Hegel and Benjamin should make tragedy such an important theme in their work, and why, after Kant, an important strand of philosophy should present itself tragically. From Heidegger's reading of Sophocles' Antigone to Nietzsche and Benjamin's book-length studies of tragedy, Philosophy and Tragedy presents an outstanding and original study of this preoccupation. The five sections are organised clearly around five major philosophers: Hegel, Holderlin, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Benjamin