Mourning sickness : Hegel and the French Revolution /
"This book explores Hegel's response to the French Revolutionary Terror and its impact on Germany. Like many of his contemporaries, Hegel was struck by the seeming parallel between the political upheaval in France and the upheaval in German philosophy inaugurated by the Protestant Reformat...
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| Language: | English |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2011
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| Series: | Cultural memory in the present.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: French Revolution, German Misère
- Missed revolutions : translation, transmission, trauma." ... an impossibly speedy motion" ; Translatio imperii ; Copernican and other revolutions ; "The magic wand of analogy" ; Noch nicht unddoch schon ... ; Translation as trauma
- The Kantian Theater. Crimen inexpiabile ; Shipwreck with spectator ; The abyss of form ; Diabolical? ; Moral revolution ; Another scene
- The corpse of faith. Revolution or reform? ; Dead right ; Erasures ; Terror as melancholia ; Of kings and cabbages ; Horror vacui
- Revolution at a distance, or, Moral terror. Philosophical thermidor ; " ... another land" ; From terror to anxiety ; Morality as slave ideology ; Kant as terrorist ; First step: Morality as perversion ; Second step: Perversion as aestheticism ; Third step: Aestheticism as ideology ; Vaporized subjectivity
- Terrors of the Tabula Rasa. Antinomies of forgiveness ; "Rushing toward reconciliation" ; Wounds of spirit ; Politics of forgiveness? ; World soul on horseback ; "The self-moving life of the dead" ; Gray on Gray (Hegel, Beckett, Richter) ; "As if it had learned nothing ..." ; "We, the masters ..."
