Tag Archives: Hegel
>Nietzsche’s Not-logic
>How much of life is a battle between logic and not-logic. Whatever is the opposite of logic is what Nietzsche hopes to represent in the Dionysiac: logic’s dialectical antithesis. It is the same not-logic that dominates Freud’s conception of our … Continue reading
>Schiller’s Dialectic
>Schiller’s interest in the Artist as a uniter of those things local and contemporary with those things universal and eternal seems intimately related to Hegel’s own dialectic. Schiller positions his ideal in the past, with Ancient Greek civilization, but acknowledges … Continue reading
>Hegel’s Artistic Progress
>In his Lectures on Fine Art, Hegel extends his concept of the dialectic into the realm of art and the Artist. He begins with the questions, “What is art?” and “Where does art come from?” and delineates two flawed conceptions, … Continue reading
>Dialectical Intentionality
>It might be productive to pursue a dialectical approach to the impasse we have reached in our discussions of Shakespearean intentionality in performance: a desire to know the author’s intentions, an unconscious assumption that we do, exists along with a … Continue reading
>Hegelian Dialectic: The Master and the Slave
>Hegel’s interest in the dialectic lies in his attempt to codify the process by which human’s come to self-consciousness, to an understanding of themselves. Thus, he begins his Master-Slave Dialectic with the assertion that “Self-consciousness exists…only in being acknowledged,” and … Continue reading
