Hegel on Tragedy and Comedy: New Essays

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
	11 Hegel’s Tragic Conception of World History Fiacha D. Heneghan (Vanderbilt University)
		Introduction
		Tragic Experience
		The Logic of Tragic Situations
		Tragedy and World History
		The Tragic Experiences of World-Historical Nations and Individuals
		The Tragic Logic of the Movement of World History
		Conclusion: The Casualties of World History
		Notes
	12 Hegel on Tragedy and the World-Historical Individual’s Right of Revolutionary Action Jason M. Yonover (Johns Hopkins University)
		Introduction
		Kant’s Hardline Rejection
		Hegel’s Two-Ingredient Recipe for Tragedy
		Hegel on a “Right of a Wholly Peculiar Kind”
			Hegel’s Philosophy of History
			The Flour to Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy: World-Historical Individuals and Collision
			The Water to Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy: World-Historical Individuals and Belatedness
		Conclusion
		Notes
	13 Philosophy, Comedy, and History.Hegel’s Aristophanic Modernity C. Allen Speight (Boston University)
		Aristophanic Theatricality: Framing the Rise of Subjectivity
		From Tragedy to Comedy: Framing the Developmental Structure of Hegel’s Art-Historical Project
		Aristophanic History
		Notes
Contributors
Index