Hegel and the Art of Negation: Negativity, Creativity and Contemporary Thought Contributor(s): Hass, Andrew W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1780765584 ISBN-13: 9781780765587 Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company OUR PRICE: $34.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Logic - Philosophy | Religious |
Dewey: 193 |
LCCN: 2014469639 |
Series: Library of Modern Religion |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.90 lbs) 240 pages |
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Publisher Description: Why is the philosopher Hegel returning as a potent force in contemporary thinking? Why, after a long period when Hegel and his dialectics of history have seemed less compelling than they were for previous generations of philosophers, is study of Hegel again becoming important? Fashionably contemporary theorists like Francis Fukuyama and Slavoj Zizek, as well as radical theologians like Thomas Altizer, have all recently been influenced by Hegel, the philosopher whose philosophy seems somehow perennial - or, to borrow an idea from Nietzsche, eternally returning. Exploring this revival via the notion of 'negation' in Hegelian thought, and relating such negativity to sophisticated ideas about art and artistic creation, Andrew Hass argues that the notion of Hegelian negation moves us into an expansive territory where art, religion and philosophy may all be radically reconceived and broken open into new forms of philosophical expression. The implications of such a revived Hegelian philosophy are, the author argues, vast and current. |