Highway of Despair - Critical Theory After Hegel

Hegel's "highway of despair," introduced in his Phenomenology of Spirit, represents the tortured path traveled by "natural consciousness" on its way to freedom. This book follows Theodor Adorno, Georges Bataille, and Frantz Fanon as they each read, resist, and reconfigure a strand of Hegelian thought.

Summary

Hegel's "highway of despair," introduced in his Phenomenology of Spirit, represents the tortured path traveled by "natural consciousness" on its way to freedom. This book follows Theodor Adorno, Georges Bataille, and Frantz Fanon as they each read, resist, and reconfigure a strand of Hegelian thought.

Product details

• Authors: Robyn Marasco, Marasco Robyn
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780231168670
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16867-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: New Directions in Critical The; New Directions in Critical Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism