The Anti-Romantic Hegel Against Ironic Romanticism
The strength of Hegel's polemical approach to these authors shows how irony itself represents for him a persistent threat to his own idea of systematic Science. This is so, we discover, because Romantic irony is more than a rival ideology; it is an actual form of discourse, one whose performative objectivity interferes with the objectivity of Hegel's own logos. Thus, Hegel's critique of irony allows us to reciprocally uncover a Hegelian theory of scientific discourse. Far from seeing irony as a form of consciousness overcome by Spirit, Hegel sees it as having become a pressing feature of his own contemporary world, as witnessed in the popularity of his Berlin rival, Schleiermacher. Finally, to the extent that ironic discourse seems, for Hegel, to imply a certain world beyond his own notion of modernity, we are left with the hypothesis that Hegel's critique of irony may be viewed as a critique of post-modernity.
Publisher Name | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
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Author Name | Hagendorf, Col |
Format | Audio |
Bisac Subject Major | PHI |
Language | NG |
Isbn 10 | 1472574818 |
Isbn 13 | 9781472574817 |
Target Age Group | min:NA, max:NA |
Dimensions | 00.92" H x 10.06" L x 14.00" W |
Page Count | 208 |
Jeffrey Reid is a Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa, Canada.