Tragedy in Hegel's early theological writings / Peter Wake.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wake, Peter, author.

Series:

Indiana series in the philosophy of religion.

Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tragic, The.

Christianity.

Philosophy, Modern.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tragedy plays a central role in Hegel's early writings on theology and politics. Hegel's overarching aim in these texts is to determine the kind of mythology that would best complement religious and political freedom in modernity. Peter Wake claims that, for Hegel at this early stage, ancient Greek tragedy provided the model for such a mythology and suggested a way to oppose the rigid hierarchies and authoritarianism that characterized Europe of his day. Wake follows Hegel as he develops his idea of the essence of Christianity and its relation to the distinctly tragic expression of beauty

Contents:

Cover; TRAGEDY IN HEGEL'S EARLY THEOLOGICAL WRITINGS; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Monotheism of Reason and the Heart, Polytheism of the Imagination and Art; Part 1 Positivity and the Concrete Idea of Freedom; 1. Positivity and Historical Reversal; Positivität: Either Life or Death; Conviction and the Proper Name "Hegel"; Faith and Knowledge in Modernity; Kant in Athens; Secret Revolutions in Spirit; Volksreligionen; Greeks, Jews, and Christians; Positivity Embodied; Quality, Quantity, and a Lack of Measure; Friendship

Excursus on Measure in the Greek Republic Sects; The Circuitous Route; 2. On Expansion; Divided Jesus; The Comedy of Failed Sacrifices; Die Mahle der geistlichen Liebe; The Drive Outward; Resentment and the Imperial Will; Internal Expansion; The Modern Complementum of the Law; Positivity as Asceticism; A German Theseus?; Excursus on Hölderlin's Death of Empedocles; Truth for the Imagination; The Flight of the Gods and the Loss of Immanence; The Greek versus Christian Imagination; Part 2 The Spirit of Withdrawal; 3. The Idea of Freedom as Independence; Baptismos

A Typology of Responses to Nature's Infidelity The Abrahamic Tear; Mastery, Imagination, and Fate; Human Nature and Its Perversion; Poetic History; Tragic Sacrifice and World Historical Individuals; Jesus in the First and Final Act; 4. Withdrawal and Exile; Separation from Separation; The Shaman of Königsberg; "I was once alive apart from the law"; Married Life; A Different Genius; Plērōma; On Crime and Punishment; Grace, Fate, Catharsis; The Empty Site of the Law; Beauty in Withdrawal; 5. Dialectic of Love; Beauty as Love Objectified; Last Supper Revisited; The Proper Vessel of the Infinite

Beyond Faith Pure Life; Logic of Love; The Fate of Christianity as Tragedy; The Hovering God; Dissolution/auf heben; Conclusion: Comedy, Subjectivity, and the Negative; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253012616

0253012619

OCLC:

875291113