Hegel and Shakespeare on moral imagination
By: Jennifer Ann Bates.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781438432410
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation; Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, -- 1770-1831 -- Criticism and interpretation; Ethics in literature; Fate and fatalism in literature; Self in literature; English literature -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A Hegelian reading of good and bad luck; title: In Shakespearean drama (phen. of spirit, King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, a Midsummer night's dream); title: Tearing the fabric: Hegel's Antigone, Shakespeare's Coriolanus, and kinship-state conflict (phen. of spirit c. 6, Judith Butler's Antigone, Coriolanus); title: Aufhebung and anti-aufhebung: geist and ghosts in Hamlet (phen. of spirit, Hamlet); title: The problem of genius in King Lear: Hegel on the feeling soul and the tragedy of wonder (anthropology and psychology in the encyclopaedia, Philosophy of mind, King Lear); title: Richard II's mirror and the alienation of the Universal Will (of the I that is a We) (Richard II, phen. of spirit c. 5); title: Falstaff and the politics of wit: negative infinite judgment in a culture of alienation (Henry IV parts I & II, phen. of spirit c. 6, philosophy of right); title: Henry V's unchangeableness: his rejection of wit and his posture of virtue reinterpreted in the light of Hegel's theory of virtue (philosophy of right, Henry V); title: Hegel's theory of crime and evil: (re)tracing the rights of the sovereign self (aesthetics, phen. of spirit, phil. of right, Richard II through to Henry V); title: Richard III, Hamlet, Macbeth and Henry V: conscience, hypocrisy, self-deceit and the tragedy of ethical life (phil. of right, Richard III, Hamlet, Macbeth, Henry V); title: Negation of the negative infinite judgment versus sublation of it: punishment vs. pardon (phil. of right, phen. of spirit c. 6 and Henry VIII); title: Universal wit : the absolute theater of identity (phen. of spirit c. 6 and 8, Pericles, the Tempest); title: Absolute infections and their cure (phen. of spirit c. 6, the Winter's tale).