Hegel and the Foundations of Literary Theory - M. A. R. Habib

Hegel and the Foundations of Literary Theory

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Buch | Softcover
349 Seiten
2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-45785-9 (ISBN)
23,65 inkl. MwSt
Senior scholar M. A. R. Habib explores how Hegel's thought has come to shape modern literary theory. He explains Hegel's difficult ideas on many subjects: logic, the history of philosophy, language, gender, empire, and the political state. This book will be essential reading for all in the field.
Do the various forms of literary theory - deconstruction, Marxism, new historicism, feminism, post-colonialism, and cultural/digital studies - have anything in common? If so, what are the fundamental principles of theory? What is its ideological orientation? Can it still be of use to us in understanding basic intellectual and ethical dilemmas of our time? These questions continue to perplex both students and teachers of literary theory. Habib finds the answers in theory's largely unacknowledged roots in the thought of German philosopher Hegel. Hegel's insights continue to frame the very terms of theory to this day. Habib explains Hegel's complex ideas and how they have percolated through the intellectual history of the last century. This book will interest teachers and students of literature, literary theory and the history of ideas, illuminating how our modern world came into being, and how we can better understand the salient issues of our own time.

M. A. R. Habib is Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Jersey and teaches at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait. He is the author of nine books, including The Early T. S. Eliot and Western Philosophy (Cambridge, 1999), and the editor of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Vol. 6: The Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, 2013).

Introduction; Part I. Hegel: The Historical And Philosophical Setting: 1. The Hegelian dialectic; 2. Historical backgrounds; 3. Hegel, philosopher of capitalism; 4. Hegel on identity and difference; 5. Hegelian identity and economics; Part II. Literary Theory: Reading The Dialectic: 6. Hegel and deconstruction: 7. Hegel on language; 8. Literary theory on Hegel and language Saussure, Barthes, Derrida, Deleuze; 9. Hegel, language, and the unconscious Kristeva; 10. Hegel's dialectic of master and slave; 11. The master-slave dialectic in literary theory: allegorical readings: Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida; 12. Marx on the Hegelian dialectic; 13. Hegel and Marxist literary theory (I) Horkheimer, Adorno and Benjamin; 14. Hegel and Marxist literary theory (II) Slavoj Žižek; 15. Hegel on woman: Antigone; 16. Feminists on Hegel and Antigone: Irigaray, Butler, (Derrida); 17. Historical contexts of Hegel's views on women; Epilogue: the futures of theory: towards a dialectical humanism.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises; 1 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 507 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-108-45785-1 / 1108457851
ISBN-13 978-1-108-45785-9 / 9781108457859
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