Hegel and the foundations of literary theory / M.A.R. Habib.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Habib, Rafey, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831--Influence.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 337 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Do the various forms of literary theory - deconstruction, Marxism, new historicism, feminism, post-colonialism, and cultural/digital studies - have anything in common? If so, what are the fundamental principles of theory? What is its ideological orientation? Can it still be of use to us in understanding basic intellectual and ethical dilemmas of our time? These questions continue to perplex both students and teachers of literary theory. Habib finds the answers in theory's largely unacknowledged roots in the thought of German philosopher Hegel. Hegel's insights continue to frame the very terms of theory to this day. Habib explains Hegel's complex ideas and how they have percolated through the intellectual history of the last century. This book will interest teachers and students of literature, literary theory and the history of ideas, illuminating how our modern world came into being, and how we can better understand the salient issues of our own time.

Contents:

The Hegelian dialectic

Historical backgrounds

Hegel, philosopher of capitalism

Hegel on identity and difference

Hegelian identity and economics

Hegel and deconstruction

Hegel on language

Hegel, language, and literary theory: Saussure, Barthes, Derrida, Deleuze

Language and the unconscious Kristeva

The master/slave dialectic

The master/slave dialectic in literary theory: Deleuze, Derrida

Hegel and Marx

Hegel and Marxist literary theory (I): Horkheimer and Adorno; Benjamin

Hegel and Marxist literary theory (II)

Hegel on gender: Antigone

Feminists on Hegel and Antigone: Irigaray, Butler, (Derrida)

Historical contexts of Hegel's views on women

Epilogue: the futures of theory: toward a dialectical humanism.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Dec 2018).

ISBN:

1-316-99759-6

1-108-68581-1

1-108-60295-9