Hegel and the Misadventures of Consciousness: On Comedy and Revolutionary Partisanship

Autor: Jamila M. H. Mascat
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Zdroj: The Object of Comedy ISBN: 9783030277413
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-27742-0_4
Popis: Hegel was the first major philosophical figure to put comedy on top of the classic triad of genres, above epic and tragedy. Moreover, as has been suggested by thinkers as different as Jacques Lacan, Bertolt Brecht, and Judith Butler, Hegel’s dialectics itself could be conceived as a real comical performance. Following and expanding this insight on the comicality of the Hegelian dialectic, this contribution aims to explore the peculiar comical texture of the experience of consciousness in the Phenomenology of Spirit. By doing so, the chapter will shed some light on the many existing resonances between the phenomenological itinerary of consciousness and the obstinate practice of revolutionary partisanship.
Databáze: OpenAIRE