Hegel, Literature, and the Problem of Agency

List of contents

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.

Product details

• Authors: Allen Speight, Allen (Boston University) Speight, Speight Allen
• Assisted by: Robert B. Pippin (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.02.2001
• EAN: 9780521796347
• ISBN: 978-0-521-79634-7
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 260 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Modern European Philosophy; Modern European Philosophy (Pa; Modern European Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy