Hegel, Literature, and the Problem of Agency

Allen Speight

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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.

Book Details

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publish Date: Feb 5th, 2001
Pages: 168
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.39in - 0.56lb
EAN: 9780521796347
Categories: • History & Surveys - Modern• Metaphysics

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"Speight's book is clearly written, well argued, and nothing if not ambitious. His book marks a new point for Hegel scholarship in English." Ethics