Hegel, Literature, and the Problem of Agency (Modern European Philosophy)

Allen Speight argues that behind Hegel's extraordinary appeal to literature in the Phenomenology of Spirit lies a philosophical project concerned with understanding human agency in the modern world. It shows that Hegel looked to three literary genres—tragedy, comedy, and the romantic novel—as offering privileged access to three moments of human agency: retrospectivity, theatricality, and forgiveness. Taking full account of the authors that Hegel himself refers to (Sophocles, Diderot, Schlegel, Jacobi), Allen Speight has written a book with a broad appeal to both philosophers and literary theorists. nlReader.dll-01-COVER.pdf 1 nlReader.dll-02.pdf 2 nlReader.dll-03.pdf 3 nlReader.dll-04.pdf 1 nlReader.dll-05.pdf 4 nlReader.dll-06.pdf 5 nlreader.dll@bookid=77859&filename=page_1.pdf 6 nlreader.dll@bookid=77859&filename=page_2.pdf 7 nlreader.dll@bookid=77859&filename=page_3.pdf 8 nlreader.dll@bookid=77859&filename=page_4.pdf 9 nlreader.dll@bookid=77859&filename=page_5.pdf 10 nlreader.dll@bookid=77859&filename=page_6.pdf 11 nlreader.dll@bookid=77859&filename=page_7.pdf 12 nlreader.dll@bookid=77859&filename=page_8.pdf 13 nlreader.dll@bookid=77859&filename=page_9.pdf 14 nlreader.dll@bookid=77859&filename=page_10.pdf 15 nlreader.dll@bookid=77859&filename=page_11.pdf 16 nlreader.dll@bookid=77859&filename=page_12.pdf 17 nlreader.dll@bookid=77859&filename=page_13.pdf 18 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nlreader.dll@bookid=77859&filename=page_151.pdf 156 nlreader.dll@bookid=77859&filename=page_152.pdf 157 nlreader.dll@bookid=77859&filename=page_153.pdf 158 nlreader.dll@bookid=77859&filename=page_154.pdf 159 "Allen Speight's contribution to the current debate on the work of Hegel argues that behind Hegel's extraordinary appeal to literature in the Phenomenology lies a philosophical project concerned with understanding human agency in the modern world. It shows that Hegel looked to three literary genres - tragedy, comedy, and the romantic novel - as offering privileged access to three moments of human agency: retrospectivity, or the fact that human action receives its full meaning only after the event; theatricality, or the fact that human action receives its full meaning only in a social context; and forgiveness, or the practice of reassessing human action in the light of its essentially interpretive nature." "Taking full account of the authors that Hegel himself refers to (Sophocles, Diderot, Schlegel, Jacobi), Allen Speight has written a book with appeal to both philosophers and literary theorists that positions Hegel as a central figure in both the continental and Anglo-American philosophical traditions."--Jacket The narrative shape of Hegel's philosophy of agency has its origins most visibly in the philosophical project of his earliest published book, the Phenomenology of Spirit. A study of Hegel's appeal to literature in the Phenomenology of Spirit