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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.  \nTaking full account of the authors that Hegel himself refers to (Sophocles, Diderot, Schlegel, Jacobi), Allen Speight has written a book with abroad appeal to both philosophers and literary theorists that positions Hegel as a central figure in both the continental and Anglo-American philosophical traditions.  \nAllen Speight is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston University.  \nHEGEL, LITERATURE AND THE PROBLEM OF AGENCY  \nALLEN SPEIGHT  \nBoston University  \nCONTENTS  \nAcknowledgments page xi  \nIntroduction 1  \n1 Hegel and Post-Kantian Philosophy 2  \n2 A New View of Agency 3  \n3 Narrativity, Normativity, and Hegel’s Appeal  \nto Literature 6  \n1 “Hegel’s Novel”: The Phenomenology of Spirit and the Problem of Philosophical Narrative 11  \n1 The PhG’s Literary Turn 20  \n2 Accounting for the “Literary Turn”: Narrative and the Project of the Phenomenology 37  \n2 Tragedy and Retrospectivity: Hegel’s Antigone 42  \n1 From Moral Luck to Expressive Agency:  \nThe Origins of an Hegelian “Poetics” of Action 46  \n2 The Hegelian Antigone 50  \n3 From Tragic Action to Comic Theatricality 65  \n3 Comedy and Theatricality: Desire, Bildung,  \nand the Sociality of Agents’ Self-Knowledge 68  \n1 The Comic Agent 72  \n2 The Notion of Bildung and Its Importance  \nto “Spirit” 76  \n3 Hegel’s Rameau 78  \n4 Philosophy and the Task of Overcoming  \nTheatricality 84  \nx contents  \n4 Forgiveness and the Romantic Novel:  \nContesting the Beautiful Soul 94  \n1 From the Categorical Imperative to the Beautiful  \nSoul: Kantian and Post-Kantian Attempts at  \nEscaping Retrospectivity and Theatricality 102  \n2 The Contest of Conscientious Agent and  \nConscientious Judge 109  \n3 Jacobi’s Woldemar and the Narrative Language  \nof Forgiveness 112  \n4 Hegel and Jacobi 115  \n5 Hegel’s Appropriation of Forgiveness: From the Reconciliation of Spirit to the Possibility of  \nModern Ethical Agency 117  \n5 From the Phenomenology to the Philosophy of Right:  \nHegel’s Concept of the Will and the Possibility of  \nModern Ethical Life 122  \n1 Retrospectivity and Hegel’s Concept of the Will 124  \n2 Reason, Desire, and Sociality: Hegel’s Generative Account of the Will 128  \n3 Recognitive Identity and Reconciliation in the  \nInstitutions of Ethical Life 131  \n4 Farewell to Literature? The Use of Literary Modes in the Project of Modern Ethical Life 133  \nSelected Bibliography 137  \nIndex 149  \nINTRODUCTION  \nThe present book takes as its aim the uncovering of a certain narrative shape to Hegel’s philosophy of agency. Its concern, however, is not with the (unlikely) task of discussing “Hegel as literature,” but rather with the sort of narrative Hegel thought required by his philosophical interests – in this narrow compass, the interest of an adequate philosophy of human agency.  \nFor Hegel, the question of narrativity and agency loomed largest in writing the Phenomenology of Spirit (PhG), a riddlingly allusive work whose far-from-obvio","cbCairmNeKLQnK7X","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairmNeKLQnK7X","pdf",1874887,159,"English","# Introduction\n## Hegel and Post-Kantian Philosophy\n## A New View of Agency\n## Narrativity, Normativity, and Hegel’s Appeal to Literature\n## Tragedy and Retrospectivity: Hegel’s Antigone\n## Comedy and Theatricality: Desire, Bildung, and the Sociality of Agents’ Self-Knowledge\n## Forgiveness and the Romantic Novel: Contesting the Beautiful Soul\n## From the Phenomenology to the Philosophy of Right","[{\"question\":\"What central question does the book address about Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit?\",\"answer\":\"Why the Phenomenology makes such rich and provocative use of literary works and genres, and what that reveals about the work’s account of agency.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book connect tragedy, comedy, and the romantic novel to human agency?\",\"answer\":\"It links tragedy to retrospectivity, comedy to theatricality in social contexts, and the romantic novel to forgiveness through reassessment of action.\"},{\"question\":\"What narrative features of action does Speight emphasize as crucial in the Phenomenology?\",\"answer\":\"Retrospectivity and theatricality of action, along with the possibility for an action’s forgiveness based on its interpretive character.\"}]","HEGEL, LITERATURE AND THE PROBLEM OF AGENCY - Introduction to Narrative Shape of Agency | PDF",1789974729,245]