Format:
xiii, 219 Seiten :
,
Illustrationen, Portraits ;
,
25 cm.
ISBN:
978-0-19-007076-2
Content:
"The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche offers a new interpretation of Henrik Ibsen's drama and brings to light new aspects of G.W. F. Hegel's and Friedrich Nietzsche's works, especially their theorizing of drama and theatre. This study emphasizes the centrality of philosophy of theater in nineteenth-century philosophy and demonstrates how drama functions as an artform that offers insight into human historicity and the conditions of modern life. In this way, The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche seeks to deepen and actualize the relationship between philosophy and drama-not by suggesting that either philosophy or drama should have the upper hand, but by indicating how a sustained dialogue between them can bring out the best in both"--
Note:
Losing Time (The Vikings At Helgeland) -- History Adrift; Subjectivity Probed (Peer Gynt) -- Ruins of Antiquity (Emperor and Galilean) -- Tragedy and Tradition (Ghosts) -- Teaching History (An Enemy of The People) -- History and Existence (Hedda Gabler) -- Concluding Remarks
Additional Edition:
Online version Gjesdal, Kristin The drama of history New York : Oxford University Press, 2020 ISBN 9780190070786
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
1770-1831 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
;
1828-1906 Ibsen, Henrik
;
1844-1900 Nietzsche, Friedrich
;
Drama
;
Dramentheorie
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Author information:
Gjesdal, Kristin 1969-
