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The representation of an action : tragedy between Kant and Hegel
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Cooper, Andrew (2017) The representation of an action : tragedy between Kant and Hegel. European Journal of Philosophy, 25 (3). pp. 573-594. doi:10.1111/ejop.12166 ISSN 0966-8373.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12166
Abstract
Hegel's theory of tragedy has polarized critics. In the past, many philosophers have claimed that Hegel's theory of tragedy removes Kant's critical insights and returns to pre‐critical metaphysics. More recently, several have argued that Hegel does not break faith with tragic experience but allows philosophy to be transformed by tragedy. In this paper I examine the strength of this revised position. First I show that it identifies Hegel's insightful critique of Kant's theoretical assumptions. Yet I then argue that it fails to note the practical importance of Kant's separation of knowledge and aesthetics. I propose an alternative approach to tragedy that builds from the revised view and yet maintains the autonomy of aesthetics. Tragedy represents an action, a set of events that are internally unified and yet cannot be reduced to theory. This is to say that tragedy confronts us with an aesthetic sphere of making and doing that, while constrained, is incessantly open and free.
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Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | European Journal of Philosophy | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0966-8373 | ||||||||
Official Date: | September 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 25 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 573-594 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/ejop.12166 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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