Description: Tragedy, Recognition, and the Death of God by Robert R. Williams Robert R. Williams offers a bold new account of divergences and convergences in the work of Hegel and Nietzsche. He explores four themes - the philosophy of tragedy; recognition and community; critique of Kant; and the death of God - and explicates both thinkers critiques of traditional theology and metaphysics. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Hegel and Nietzsche are two of the most important figures in philosophy and religion. Robert R. Williams challenges the view that they are mutually exclusive. He identifies four areas of convergence. First, Hegel and Nietzsche express and define modern interest in tragedy as a philosophical topic. Each seeks to correct the traditional philosophical and theological suppression of a tragic view of existence. This suppression of the tragic is required by the moralvision of the world, both in the tradition and in Kants practical philosophy and its postulates. For both Hegel and Nietzsche, the moral vision of the world is a projection of spurious, life-negatingvalues that Nietzsche calls the ascetic ideal, and that Hegel identifies as the spurious infinite. The moral God is the enforcer of morality. Second, while acknowledging a tragic dimension of existence, Hegel and Nietzsche nevertheless affirm that existence is good in spite of suffering. Both affirm a vision of human freedom as open to otherness and requiring recognition and community. Struggle and contestation have affirmative significance for both. Third, while the moral God is dead, thisdoes not put an end to the God-question. Theology must incorporate the death of God as its own theme. The union of God and death expressing divine love is for Hegel the basic speculative intuition. Thisimplies a dipolar, panentheistic concept of a tragic, suffering God, who risks, loves, and reconciles. Fourth, Williams argues that both Hegel and Nietzsche pursue theodicy, not as a justification of the moral God, but rather as a question of the meaningfulness and goodness of existence despite nihilism and despite tragic conflict and suffering. The inseparability of divine love and anguish means that reconciliation is no conflict-free harmony, but includes a paradoxical tragic dissonance:reconciliation is a disquieted bliss in disaster. Author Biography Robert R. Williams is Professor Emeritus of Germanic Studies, Philosophy, and Religious Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is Past President of the Hegel Society of America (1998-2000), and author of Schleiermacher the Theologian (1978), Recognition: Fichte and Hegel on the Other (1992), Hegels Ethics of Recognition (1998). He is also editor of Beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism: Studies in Hegels Philosophy ofRight (2001), translator (with Claude Welch) of I. A. Dorners Divine Immutability: A Reconsideration (1994), and translator and editor of Hegels Lectures on the Philosophy of Spirit, 1827-8 (2007). Table of Contents IntroductionPart I: Recognition1: Hegel and Nietzsche on Master and Slave2: Aristotle, Hegel, and Nietzsche on Friendship3: The Agon, Recognition, and CommunityPart II: Tragedy4: Hegels Conception of Tragedy5: Nietzsche on TragedyPart III: Overcoming the Kantian Frame: The True Infinite6: Hegels Concept of the True Infinite7: Hegels Recasting of Theological ProofsPart IV: God beyond the Death of God8: Theogenesis, Divine Suffering, Demythologizing the Demonic9: Nietzsche on the Death of God and Eternal Recurrence10: Hegel on the Death of God: the Inseparability of Love and Anguish11: Nietzsches Aesthetic Theodicy12: Hegels Death of God Theodicy Review an exceptional, remarkable book. Written in clear and precise languageit provides a powerful, extremely convincing argument against those deflationary readings that regard the metaphysical, theological, and religious dimensions of Hegels philosophy as dispensable. * Martin Thibodeau, Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture *a major achievement based on years of thoughtful engagement with these fascinating philosophers . . . Williamss is a provocative book that, I hope, will provoke many to take up the challenges it poses to, among many other things, contemporary conceptions of philosophy itself. * Paul Redding, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * Promotional Robert R. Williams offers a bold new account of divergences and convergences in the work of Hegel and Nietzsche Long Description Hegel and Nietzsche are two of the most important figures in philosophy and religion. Robert R. Williams challenges the view that they are mutually exclusive. He identifies four areas of convergence. First, Hegel and Nietzsche express and define modern interest in tragedy as a philosophical topic. Each seeks to correct the traditional philosophical and theological suppression of a tragic view of existence. This suppression of the tragic is required by the moralvision of the world, both in the tradition and in Kants practical philosophy and its postulates. For both Hegel and Nietzsche, the moral vision of the world is a projection of spurious, life-negatingvalues that Nietzsche calls the ascetic ideal, and that Hegel identifies as the spurious infinite. The moral God is the enforcer of morality. Second, while acknowledging a tragic dimension of existence, Hegel and Nietzsche nevertheless affirm that existence is good in spite of suffering. Both affirm a vision of human freedom as open to otherness and requiring recognition and community. Struggle and contestation have affirmative significance for both. Third, while the moral God is dead, thisdoes not put an end to the God-question. Theology must incorporate the death of God as its own theme. The union of God and death expressing divine love is for Hegel the basic speculative intuition. Thisimplies a dipolar, panentheistic concept of a tragic, suffering God, who risks, loves, and reconciles. Fourth, Williams argues that both Hegel and Nietzsche pursue theodicy, not as a justification of the moral God, but rather as a question of the meaningfulness and goodness of existence despite nihilism and despite tragic conflict and suffering. The inseparability of divine love and anguish means that reconciliation is no conflict-free harmony, but includes a paradoxical tragic dissonance:reconciliation is a disquieted bliss in disaster. Review Quote "An exceptional, remarkable book. Written in clear and precise language...it provides a powerful, extremely convincing argument against those deflationary readings that regard the metaphysical, theological, and religious dimensions of Hegels philosophy as dispensable."---Martin Thibodeau, Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture "A major achievement based on years of thoughtful engagement with these fascinating philosophers . . . Williamss is a provocative book that, I hope, will provoke many to take up the challenges it poses to, among many other things, contemporary conceptions of philosophy itself."--Paul Redding, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Feature A fresh perspective on the work of two great thinkers on religionChallenges the accepted critical consensusDemonstrates the enduring signifiance of Hegel and NietzscheHighly original, stimulating, and illuminating Details ISBN0199656053 Author Robert R. Williams Language English ISBN-10 0199656053 ISBN-13 9780199656059 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2012 Imprint Oxford University Press Subtitle Studies in Hegel and Nietzsche Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 193 Short Title TRAGEDY RECOGNITION & DEATH OF Illustrations black & white illustrations Affiliation Professor, Institute of Mathematics and Physics, Aberystwyth University UK Release Date 2012-09-27 Publication Date 2012-09-27 AU Release Date 2012-09-27 NZ Release Date 2012-09-27 Translator Ruth Flatman Edited by Simon Cox Birth 1797 Death 1851 Position Head of Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Qualifications PhD Pages 424 Publisher Oxford University Press Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:79722177;
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