Tragedy in Hegel's Early Theological Writings

Contents

Contents acknowledgments ix list of abbreviations xi introduction: Monotheism of reason and the Heart, Polytheism of the imagination and art 1 Part 1 Positivity and the concrete idea of Freedom 1. Positivity and Historical reversal 15 Positivität: Either Life or Death • Conviction and the Proper Name “Hegel” • Faith and Knowledge in Modernity • Kant in athens • secret revolutions in spirit • Volksreligionen • greeks, Jews, and christians • Positivity embodied • Quality, Quantity, and a lack of Measure • Friendship • excursus on Measure in the greek republic • sects • The circuitous route 2. on expansion 54 divided Jesus • The comedy of Failed sacrifices • Die Mahle der geistlichen Liebe • The drive outward • resentment and the imperial Will • internal expansion • The Modern Complementum of the law • Positivity as asceticism • a german Theseus? • excursus on Hölderlin’s Death of Empedocles • Truth for the imagination • The Flight of the gods and the loss of immanence • The greek versus christian imagination Part 2 The spirit of Withdrawal 3. The idea of Freedom as independence 99 Baptismos • a Typology of responses to nature’s infidelity • The abrahamic Tear • Mastery, imagination, and Fate • Human nature and its Perversion • Poetic History • Tragic sacrifice and World Historical individuals • Jesus in the First and Final act 4. Withdrawal and exile 136 separation from separation • The shaman of Königsberg • “I was once alive apart from the law” • Married life • a different genius • Plērōma • on crime and Punishment • grace, Fate, catharsis • The empty site of the law • Beauty in Withdrawal 5. dialectic of love 169 Beauty as love objectified • last supper revisited • The Proper Vessel of the infinite • Beyond Faith • Pure life • logic of love • The Fate of christianity as Tragedy • The Hovering god • dissolution/auf heben conclusion: comedy, subjectivity, and the negative 203 notes 207 Bibliography 239 index 249 ...