Marginal Modernity: The Aesthetics of Dependency from Kierkegaard to Joyce

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i n de x Absolute, the, 36–39, 40, 44, 45, 48, 49–50, 51, 53, 62, 73, 80, 87, 95, 116, 161, 162, 203, 219, 227, 244– 245, 246, 249, 264 Adorno, Theodor, W., 270 Aesthetics, 1–9, 10, 12–14, 23, 24, 53, 54, 58, 85–86, 160, 162, 164, 171, 175, 182, 183, 191, 208, 218, 221, 227, 246, 248, 269–272, 275n17. See also Autonomy; Avant-gardes; Dependency Alighieri, Dante, 241 Allegory, 16, 88, 100–101, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 117, 118, 136, 184, 186, 188, 191, 198, 208, 209, 215, 280n23; as past-as-such, 132–135, 138, 139, 154, 157, 158, 160, 161, 164, 270. See also Money Antigone (Sophocles), 286n9 Archer, William, 171, 172, 182–183, 184, 185 Aristotle, 98, 178 Autonomy, aesthetics of, 1–6, 12–14, 15, 16, 17, 42, 45, 53, 54, 58, 86, 121, 164, 171, 186, 192, 198, 205, 218, 219, 222, 269–272; as aesthetics of compromise, 4, 58, 82, 84, 115; as aesthetics of idealism, 2, 3, 4, 13, 23–24, 25, 31, 40, 41, 150, 162, 234, 239, 257; as sociological category, 2, 12–14, 276n20. See also Heiberg Avant-gardes, aesthetics of, 1–6, 14, 16, 23–24, 30–31, 42, 53, 58, 162, 171, 218, 219, 239, 257, 269 Bacon, Francis, 206, 209–210, 211, 214 Bad infinity, 31, 73–74, 101, 190, 233, 246 Balzac, Honoré de, 62, 68, 188 Baudelaire, Charles, 9, 258 Beckett, Samuel, 147, 148, 287n17 Benjamin, Walter, 101, 133 Besant, Walter, 128–130, 148 Brandes, Georg, 9, 10, 59, 61, 88, 89, 204 Breaking a Butterfly (Arthur Jones and Henry Herman), 127–128, 132, 171 Brooks, Peter, 69–70, 71, 187, 188, 233, 234, 241, 292n18 Bürger, Peter, 5, 14, 276n19 Burke, Edmund, 205 Capitalism, 3, 4, 15, 16, 57, 62, 64–65, 66, 68, 81, 82, 83, 88, 101–106, 109, 113, 164 Casanova, Pascale, 12–14 Cavell, Stanley, 118, 140, 141–154, 160, 270; and idealism, 150–152; and Kierkegaard, 149–154; and King Lear (Shakespeare), 141–147, 151; and Modernism, 163–164; and skepticism, 142–144, 162–163 Character, 17, 62, 63–64, 66–68, 71, 74, 76–81, 93–94, 95, 97, 99, 108, 112, 115, 118–119,177–179, 182, 191–198, 204–205, 223, 224, 244, 248 Cheney, Edna H., 129–130, 148 Core/periphery, 1, 9, 11–14, 15, 17–19, 82–83, 86, 169, 271, 272 Dependency, aesthetics of, 1, 6, 8, 14–19, 141, 160–161, 162–165, 202–203, 267, 269–272. See also Hofmannsthal; Ibsen; James; Joyce; Kierkegaard; Rilke Descartes, René, 214 Eco, Umberto, 234–235, 242 Engels, Friedrich, 39, 62 Epic, 107. See also Novel Index 332 Fairy tale, 16, 88, 92, 93, 96, 111–112, 113, 114, 115, 134 Feudalism, 57, 65–66, 68, 81, 83, 88, 109, 113, 254 Frederik VI (King of Denmark), 60, 65–66, 76, 85 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 101, 104, 211, 241–242, 257, 258, 262, 276n19, 285n23 Good infinity, 31, 73 Gosse, Edmund, 173, 175, 176, 177 Hamsun, Knut, 9, 10, 118–119, 121, 162, 169, 177, 222 Hebbel, Friedrich, 67, 80 Hegel, G. W. F., 23, 31, 41, 46, 60, 61, 64, 238, 286n9 Heiberg, Johan Ludvig, 87, 90, 105, 109, 113, 121, 123, 194; and aesthetics of autonomy, 15–16, 57–58, 79–81; as center of Danish Golden Age, 15, 57, 60–61; The Danes in Paris, 68–81, 83, 94; and Eugène Scribe, 61–64, 67–68; and idealism, 57, 58, 60, 63–65, 68, 79, 83, 84, 89, 127, 272; and Ludvig Holberg, 67–68; and politics, 58–60, 82–84; and vaudeville, 57–68, 81–82. See also Ibsen Heiberg, Johanne Louise, 61, 90 Heidegger, Martin, 40, 210 Hettner, Herman, 282n8 Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1, 54, 171, 227, 246; and aesthetics of dependency, 206, 218–219; and Ibsen, 204–206; The Lord Chandos Letter, 18, 205–219, 256, 269–270 Holberg, Ludvig, 66–67, 79, 80, 81, 82. See also Heiberg Hölderlin, Friedrich, 24 36–40, 41, 44, 49 Hume, David, 28–29, 30–31 Ibsen, Henrik, 1, 9, 10–11, 13, 54, 61, 188, 191, 194, 201, 203, 204, 206, 218, 227, 246, 247; and aesthetics of dependency, 87, 116, 117, 121, 156, 161–162, 186, 271; A Doll’s House, 16–17, 87, 117–164, 170, 171–172, 224, 225, 244, 270; Hedda Gabler, 169, 171, 172, 173, 177, 179, 192; and Heiberg, 16, 89–91...