Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Idealism in aesthetics and literature
- 1 The legacy of Idealism and the rise of academic aesthetics
- 2 Hegel's philosophical theory of action: the concept of action in Hegel's practical philosophy and aesthetics
- 3 Tragedy and the human image: German Idealism's legacy for theory and practice
- 4 Romanticism as literary Idealism, or: a 200-year-old way of talking about literature
- 5 Idealism in nineteenth-century German literature
- 6 Idealism in nineteenth-century British and American literature
- 7 Elements of Schopenhauer's thought in Beckett
- 8 German Idealism and the philosophy of music
- 9 The music of German Idealism
- 10 ‘Refiner of all human relations’: Karl Friedrich Schinkel as an Idealist theorist
- 11 Influences of German Idealism on nineteenth-century architectural theory: Schelling and Leo von Klenze
- 12 ‘Making a world’: the impact of Idealism on museum formation in mid-nineteenth-century Massachusetts
- 13 Hegel, Danto and the ‘end of art’
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
3 - Tragedy and the human image: German Idealism's legacy for theory and practice
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Idealism in aesthetics and literature
- 1 The legacy of Idealism and the rise of academic aesthetics
- 2 Hegel's philosophical theory of action: the concept of action in Hegel's practical philosophy and aesthetics
- 3 Tragedy and the human image: German Idealism's legacy for theory and practice
- 4 Romanticism as literary Idealism, or: a 200-year-old way of talking about literature
- 5 Idealism in nineteenth-century German literature
- 6 Idealism in nineteenth-century British and American literature
- 7 Elements of Schopenhauer's thought in Beckett
- 8 German Idealism and the philosophy of music
- 9 The music of German Idealism
- 10 ‘Refiner of all human relations’: Karl Friedrich Schinkel as an Idealist theorist
- 11 Influences of German Idealism on nineteenth-century architectural theory: Schelling and Leo von Klenze
- 12 ‘Making a world’: the impact of Idealism on museum formation in mid-nineteenth-century Massachusetts
- 13 Hegel, Danto and the ‘end of art’
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
What is the legacy of German Idealism for the theory of tragedy? This is a question that calls not only for an exploration of the specific development of the new philosophical importance that tragedy as such came to have in the post-Kantian period, but also for an examination of the context in which the philosophy of tragedy more broadly is discussed.
From what perspective, then, are we to assess the theory of tragedy as it develops among the German Idealists? There are indeed many perspectives from which we may view this question: the emergence of a philosophy of ‘the tragic’ as distinct from a philosophy of tragedy; the tragic role of opposition, which Kantian antinomies, Hölderlinian original separation and Hegelian dialectic all play; the struggle between Fichtean freedom and Spinozist necessity; the ‘tragedy of the ethical’, as some of Hegel's early writings suggest. I propose to focus primarily on the legacy of Idealism with respect to tragedy as a dramatic genre in terms of the reconceived notions of art and the human image that underlie the systematic efforts of Hegel and Schelling in their respective Lectures on the Philosophy of Art.
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- The Impact of IdealismThe Legacy of Post-Kantian German Thought, pp. 46 - 68Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013