Hegel, Literature, and the Problem of Agency

ISBN-13: 9780521791847 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 168 str.

Allen Speight (Boston University)

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'… the book has many virtues and will certainly help readers at various levels attain a better understanding of the Phenomenology.' Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. 'Hegel's novel': the Phenomenology of the Spirit and the problem of philosophical narrative; 2. Tragedy and retrospectivity: Hegel's Antigone; 3. Comedy and theatricality: desire, Bildung and the sociality of agent's self-knowledge; 4. Forgiveness and the romantic novel: contesting the beautiful soul; 5. From the Phenomenology to the Philosophy of Right: Hegel's concept of the will and the possibility of modern ethical life.