Hegel and the Foundations of Literary Theory

Cover
Half Title
Title page
Imprints page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Introduction
	Hegel in Our World
	Hegel’s Significance in Modern Thought
	Hegel and Liberal Humanism
	Structure and Argument of This Book
Part I Hegel: The Historical and Philosophical Setting
	1 The Hegelian Dialectic
		1.1 The Death of the Object
		1.2 Some Interpretations of Dialectic
		1.3 The Dialectic in Literature
		1.4 Hegel’s Expositions of Dialectic
			1.4.1 The Phenomenology
			1.4.2 The Encyclopaedia (Lesser Logic) and the Science of Logic
			1.4.3 The Dialectic of Love
			1.4.4 God as Dialectic
				1.4.4.1 Earlier Writings
				1.4.4.2 Later Writings
		1.5 Epilogue
	2 Historical Backgrounds
		2.1 Hegel and Feudalism
		2.2 The French Revolution and Enlightenment
		2.3 The Rise of Bourgeois Thought
		2.4 Hegel’s State and Historical Conditions in Prussia
		2.5 Hegel, Prussia, and Romanticism
	3 Hegel, Philosopher of Capitalism
		3.1 Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: The Principle of Right
		3.2 Hegel on Property
		3.3 The Characteristics of Bourgeois Society
		3.4 Anticipating Marx
		3.5 Capitalism and Colonialism
		3.6 Hegel and Economics
		3.7 Corporations
		3.8 The State
	4 Hegel on Identity and Difference
		4.1 Hegel on Identity and Difference
		4.2 The Modes of Thought: Understanding, Dialectic, Speculation
		4.3 Hegel on Identity
		4.4 Hegel on Difference
		4.5 Literary Theory and Identity
	5 Hegelian Identity and Economics
		5.1 The Dialectic of Modernity
		5.2 Hegelian Identity and Bourgeois Economy
		5.3 Identity through Labor
Part II Literary Theory: Reading the Dialectic
	A. The Language of Metaphysics
		6 Hegel and Deconstruction
			6.1 Deconstruction as a Critique of Identity
				6.1.1 Identity as Language
				6.1.2 The Metaphysics of Presence
				6.1.3 Logocentrism
				6.1.4 Strategies of Deconstruction
			6.2 Derrida’s General Characterization of Hegel
			6.3 Derrida and Différance
				6.3.1 Definitions
				6.3.2 Différance and Dialectic
			6.4 Derrida on Hegel, Saussure, and Logocentrism
			6.5 Glas
			6.6 Glas, the Saussurean Sign, and Hegel’s Logos
			6.7 Summary of Glas as a Hegelian Self-Reflection
			6.8 Epilogue
		7 Hegel on Language
			7.1 Hegel’s First Philosophy of Spirit
				7.1.1 Hegel’s Definition of the Sign
				7.1.2 Language as a Relational System
				7.1.3 Language and Reality
				7.1.4 Consciousness as Language
			7.2 Language in Hegel’s Philosophy of Mind
				7.2.1 Language and Cognition
				7.2.2 The Phases of Cognition
				7.2.3 The Three Phases of Representation
					7.2.3.1 Recollection: The Mind as an Unconscious Pit
					7.2.3.2 Imagination
						7.2.3.2.1 Symbols and Signs
					7.2.3.3 Memory
			7.3 Language as Integral to Thought
		8 Hegel, Language, and Literary Theory
			8.1 Saussure, Barthes, and the Structure of the Sign
			8.2 Jacques Derrida: Language and Difference
			8.3 Pit to Pyramid: A Circular Journey
			8.4 The Sign as Dialectic
			8.5 Some Problems with Derrida’s Reading
			8.6 Language and Machines
			8.7 Epilogue: Deleuze, Guattari, and the Language of Capitalist Machines
		9 Language and the Unconscious
			9.1 The Signifying Process
			9.2 Semanalysis as the Child of Hegel
			9.3 Semanalysis Contra Marxism
			9.4 Hegelian Negativity and Freudian Rejection
			9.5 Freud on Negation
			9.6 Hegelian Desire and Freud on Paranoia
			9.7 The Hegelian Subject and Capitalism
			9.8 Epilogue: The Ends of Language
	B. The Politics of Recognition
		10 The Master–Slave Dialectic
			10.1 The Master–Slave Dialectic in Hegel’s Phenomenology
		11 The Master–Slave Dialectic in Literary Theory
			11.1 Alexandre Kojève on the Master–Slave Dialectic
			11.2 Allegorical Readings of Master and Slave
				11.2.1 Gilles Deleuze and Nietzsche: Mastery and the Slavish Dialectic
				11.2.2 Jacques Derrida: Lordship and Sovereignty
			11.3 The Master–Slave Dialectic in Our World: Economics and Liberal Humanism
	C. Hegel and Marxism
		12 Hegel and Marx
			12.1 Marx on Hegel: An Overview
			12.2 Marx and Hegel
				12.2.1 Marx on Hegel (I): The 1843 Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
					12.2.1.1 Constitutional Monarchy
					12.2.1.2 Hegel’s Bureaucracy and the Estates
					12.2.1.3 Private Property
						12.2.1.3.1 General Significance of Marx’s Critique
				12.2.2 Marx on Hegel (II): The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
					12.2.2.1 Hegel’s Inversion of Humanism
					12.2.2.2 Hegel on Labor and Alienation
					12.2.2.3 Humanist Rewriting of the Dialectic
				12.2.3 Marx on Hegel (III): The Grundrisse
			12.3 Epilogue: Marx and Literary Theory Today
		13 Hegel and Marxist Literary Theory (I)
			13.1 The Dialectic of Enlightenment: Adorno and Horkheimer
			13.2 Enlightenment as Positivism
			13.3 The Suppression of the Individual
			13.4 The Culture Industry
			13.5 Epilogue
		14 Hegel and Marxist Literary Theory (II)
			14.1 De-constipating the Dialectic
				14.1.1 The Idea and Nature
				14.1.2 The Language of Universal and Particular
			14.2 Problems and Promise in Žižek’s Reading
				14.2.1 Creative Misreading of a Key Passage
				14.2.2 Dialectical Method
			14.3 Hegelian Subjectivity and Capitalism (Again)
			14.4 Epilogue
	D. Hegel and Gender
		15 Hegel on Gender: Antigone
			15.1 Capitalism and Gender
			15.2 Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Woman in Bourgeois Society
			15.3 The Dialectic of Family: Marriage
			15.4 Division of Ethical Life into Male and Female
			15.5 Divine and Human Law
			15.6 The Divine Law in Family Relationships
			15.7 Family and State
			15.8 Hegel on Antigone
			15.9 Epilogue
		16 Feminists on Hegel and Antigone
			16.1 Luce Irigaray and Hegel
			16.2 Irigaray and Hegel’s Eternal Irony
				16.2.1 Antigone’s “Manliness”
				16.2.2 Sexual Difference
					16.2.2.1 Hegel’s Sister, Christiane
					16.2.2.2 Wife-Mother and Father-King
				16.2.3 The Irony of Eternal Irony
				16.2.4 Judith Butler and Kinship Trouble
				16.2.5 Butler’s Claim
				16.2.6 Antigone and the Modern Crisis of Family
				16.2.7 Elements of Butler’s Creative Misreading
		17 Historical Contexts of Hegel’s Views on Women
			17.1 Feminist Consciousness in Hegel’s Prussia
			17.2 Hegel and Marie
			17.3 Hegel’s Legacy for Feminism and Gender
Epilogue: The Futures of Theory: Towards a Dialectical Humanism
	E.1 Theory’s Posthuman Face: The Rise of Particularism
		E.1.1 Historical Context
		E.1.2 Posthumanism
		E.1.3 The Capitalist Machine
		E.1.4 The Digital Age
	E.2 Hegelian Legacies – for Theory and for Our World
		E.2.1 Dialectical Thinking
		E.2.2 Understanding Identity and Subjectivity
		E.2.3 Rehabilitating Reason
		E.2.4 Grasping Totality as a Concrete Universal
		E.2.5 Toward a Dialectical Humanism
Index