Hegel as Philosophy’s Shakespeare: drama and the unconscious

نوع مقاله : مقاله علمی- پژوهشی

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استاد گروه انگلیسی، دانشگاه ورمونت، انگلستان.

10.22034/jpiut.2025.21106

چکیده

The break that Hegel introduces into the history of philosophy stems from the way that he transforms the basis for philosophical work from argument to drama. For this project, he takes Shakespeare as a paradigmatic figure and models his works on the structure of Shakespeare’s tragedies. Rather than asserting and defending concepts, Hegel places them in a drama. Whereas Shakespeare’s characters undergo a tragic denouement, Hegel’s concepts reveal their own inadequacy when Hegel reveals how they play out in the course of the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Science of Logic. By examining Hegel’s philosophy through the lens of Shakespeare’s plays, we can discover the nature of the epochal change that Hegel presents and what makes him such a divisive figure in the history of philosophy.

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عنوان مقاله [English]

Hegel as Philosophy’s Shakespeare: drama and the unconscious

نویسنده [English]

  • Todd McGowan
Professor in The English Department, The University of Vermont. United Kingdom
چکیده [English]

The break that Hegel introduces into the history of philosophy stems from the way that he transforms the basis for philosophical work from argument to drama. For this project, he takes Shakespeare as a paradigmatic figure and models his works on the structure of Shakespeare’s tragedies. Rather than asserting and defending concepts, Hegel places them in a drama. Whereas Shakespeare’s characters undergo a tragic denouement, Hegel’s concepts reveal their own inadequacy when Hegel reveals how they play out in the course of the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Science of Logic. By examining Hegel’s philosophy through the lens of Shakespeare’s plays, we can discover the nature of the epochal change that Hegel presents and what makes him such a divisive figure in the history of philosophy.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Shakespeare
  • Drama
  • Hegel
  • Argument
  • Concept

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Hegel, G. W. F. (2018). Phenomenology of Spirit (T. Pinkard, Trans.). Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1807)
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Popper, K. (1966). The Open Society and Its Enemies. Vol. 2: The high tide of prophecy: Hegel, Marx, and the aftermath. Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1943)
Sedgwick, S. (2012). Hegel’s Critique of Kant: From dichotomy to identity. Oxford University Press.
Shakespeare, W. (1997a). Coriolanus. In G. B. Evans (Ed.), The Riverside Shakespeare (2nd ed.). Houghton Mifflin. (Original work published 1608)
Shakespeare, W. (1997b). The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. In G. B. Evans (Ed.), The Riverside Shakespeare (2nd ed.). Houghton Mifflin. (Original work published 1600)
Shakespeare, W. (1997c). The Tragedy of King Lear. In G. B. Evans (Ed.), The Riverside Shakespeare (2nd ed.). Houghton Mifflin. (Original work published 1605)
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