Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction
  • Notes
  • I. Tragedy
  • 1 The Beauty of Fate and Its Reconciliation. Hegel's The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate and Goethe's Iphigenia in Tauris Douglas Finn (Villanova University)
  • Goethe's Iphigenia in Tauris
  • Hegel's The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate
  • Looking Ahead
  • Notes
  • 2 Two Early Interpretations of Hegel's Theory of Greek Tragedy. Hinrichs and Goethe Eric v. d. Luft (Gegensatz Press)
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • 3 Hegel and the Origins of Critical Theory. Aeschylus and Tragedy in Hegel's Natural Law Essay Wes Furlotte (Thompson Rivers University)
  • An Introduction to The Problematic Ambiguity of Hegel's Natural Law Essay
  • Immanent Critique: Fichte and the System of Coercion
  • Absolute Ethical Totality: Internal Class Divisions, Dialectical Process, and Historical Development
  • Contradictions of Modernity: (Absolute) Tragedy and Its Perpetual Reenactment, The Eumenides
  • Conclusion: Ethical Totality, the Priority of Historical (Dialectical) Development, and Promises for Critical Social Theory
  • Notes
  • 4 The Tragedy of Sex (for Hegel) Antón Barba-Kay (Catholic University of America)
  • Notes
  • 5 Substantial Ends and Choices without a Will. Greek Tragedy as Archetype of Tragic Drama Allegra de Laurentiis (SUNY Stony Brook)
  • Introduction
  • The Systematic Context: Structural and Temporal Features of the Artwork
  • Structural Features of Drama and of Tragic Drama
  • Temporal Features of Drama and of Tragic Drama
  • Dramatic Estrangement, Strange Justice, and Ancestral Strangers
  • On Choosing without a Free Will
  • Notes
  • 6 Freedom and Fixity in Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes Rachel Falkenstern (St. Francis College)
  • Introduction
  • Fixity and One-Sidedness
  • Self-Reflection and Self-Determination
  • Self-Expression and Self-Destruction
  • Notes
  • II. Comedy
  • 7 Taking the Ladder Down. Hegel on Comedy and Religious Experience Peter Wake (St. Edward's University)
  • Aristophanes and Socrates
  • Hegel and the Temporary "Triumph" of Comedy over Tragedy.
  • Comedy beyond Ancient Comic Drama
  • Notes
  • 8 From Comedy to Christianity. The Nihilism of Aristophanic Laughter Paul T. Wilford (Boston College)
  • Self-Conscious Spirit, Absolute Art, and Language
  • Comedic Exultation
  • The Tragedy of Comedy
  • Christianity's Divine Comedy
  • Conclusion: Hegel and Strauss on the Meaning of Philosophy
  • Notes
  • 9 Hegel and "the Other Comedy" Martin Donougho (University of South Carolina)
  • Notes
  • 10 The Comedy of Public Opinion in Hegel Jeffrey Church (University of Houston)
  • The Estates Assembly as Drama
  • Comic Elements of the Public Education
  • The Self-Destruction of Particularity
  • Cheerfulness
  • Laughing-With
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • III. History