Format:
1 online resource (241 pages)
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ISBN:
9780190070786
Content:
The Drama of History plumbs the rich relationship between drama and philosophy. Kristin Gjesdal offers a lively and accessible discussion of the philosophical aspects of Henrik Ibsen's work. She shows how well-known nineteenth-century philosophers such as Hegel and Nietzsche develop their thoughts in interaction with the dramatic arts. At the heart of this interaction is a shared interest in exploring the existential condition of human life as lived and experienced in history. In this sense, Gjesdal engages philosophy's capacity beyond its narrow academic confines.
Content:
Cover -- The Drama of History -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Timeline of Ibsen's Published Drama -- Introduction -- 1. Losing Time (The Vikings at Helgeland) -- Introducing Ibsen's Early Work -- German Prelude -- Scandinavian Reverberations -- Traditions Fading -- Past and Present Histories -- Reassessing Sturm und Drang -- 2. History Adrift -- Subjectivity Probed (Peer Gynt) -- Selfhood and Identity -- Pathologies of Selfhood -- Self and Other -- Hegelianism in the Madhouse -- Beyond Hegelianism -- Systematic Lunacy -- 3. Ruins of Antiquity (Emperor and Galilean) -- Historical-Philosophical Preamble -- Drama and Dialectics -- Hegelian Recuperations -- Faith and Certainty -- Theater of Historicity -- 4. Modern Values (A Doll's House) -- The Dissatisfactions of Modern Life -- Hegelian Interlude -- Petrified Aestheticism -- Art and Education -- Breaking Free of Aestheticism -- 5. Tragedy and Tradition (Ghosts) -- From Hegel to Nietzsche -- The Ghosts of the Past -- Challenging the Drama of Cognition -- Retrieving the Greeks -- Beyond the Classical -- Tradition in Question -- Modern Tragedy -- 6. Teaching History (An Enemy of the People) -- Individual Greed, Placid Consensus -- The Death of Public Life -- Being Human -- Educational Commitments -- The Drama of Education -- 7. History and Existence (Hedda Gabler) -- Nietzschean Overtures -- History and Historians -- History, Tragedy, Existence -- The Drama of Untimeliness -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780190070762
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gjesdal, Kristin, 1969 - The drama of history New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021 ISBN 9780190070762
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1770-1831
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Ibsen, Henrik 1828-1906
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Nietzsche, Friedrich 1844-1900
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Drama
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Dramentheorie
Author information:
Gjesdal, Kristin 1969-
