Tragedy, Recognition, and the Death of God

Studies in Hegel and Nietzsche

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ID8067008
AuthorsRobert R Williams (corresponding author)
Year2012
Pages360
Publication date2012-09-13
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueTragedy, Recognition, and the Death of God (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199656059.001.0001
OpenAlexW4249301484
Open LibraryOL28482328M
ISBN9780199656059
LanguageEN
Citations received21

This book explores convergences between Hegel and Nietzsche on four themes: (1) Philosophies of tragedy that overcome the traditional suppression and exclusion of tragedy by both philosophy and theology. (2) Their views of recognition and community as requiring struggle and contestation; their contrasting discussions of master and slave, and friendship. (3) Their critique of Kant, including Kantian morality and its doctrine of the postulates of practical reason that for Hegel constitutes the spurious infinite and for Nietzsche the ascetic ideal. Kant's restriction of cognition to finitude is for Nietzsche an opening to tragedy, and Kant's view that theology is a subjective postulate of morality is for Hegel the death of God. Hegel responds to the death of God implicit in the Kantian frame with a reconstruction and renewal of critical metaphysics, and with a theology based on a reconstruction and defense of the ontological argument, i.e., a renewal of ontotheology. (4) Their views of the death of God: both agree that the God who is dead is the moral-juridical God, the abstract, immutable apathetic divine. In order to survive the death of God, theology must incorporate negation, tragic suffering, and the death of God as its own themes

Anguish · Art · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Ideal (ethics · Literature · Metaphysics · Morality · Psychoanalysis · Theodicy · Theology · Tragedy (event · Transcendence (philosophy · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy · Death of god theology · History · Jewish philosophy · Religion

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