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    Prostrating before adrasteia: Comedy, philosophy, and “one’s own” in republic V.Sonja Tanner - 2016 - Angelaki 21 (3):35-53.
    Comedy and philosophy have too often been thought immiscible, a tradition supported by a solemn reading of philosophers such as Plato. A closer look at Plato – and specifically at what may be his most familiar dialogue – the Republic, suggests just the contrary. Far from immiscible, comedy and philosophy are entwined in ways that are mutually illuminating. I argue that a joke in Book V reveals the self-forgetting involved in founding the city in speech, and so illustrates (...)
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  2. The Comedy of Philosophy: Sense and Nonsense in Early Cinematic Slapstick.Lisa Trahair - 2012 - SUNY Press.
    Melds philosophical analysis with early cinematic history to develop a fresh theory of the notion of comedy.
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    Philosophy and Comedy: Aristophanes, Logos, and Eros.Bernard Freydberg - 2008 - Indiana University Press.
    Reveals comedy's contributions to the philosophical enterprise.
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  4. All Too Human: Humor, Comedy, and Laughter in 19th-Century Philosophy.Allen Speight (ed.) - 2018 - Dordrecht:
     
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    Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Ancient Philosophy.Pierre Destrée & Franco V. Trivigno (eds.) - 2019 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
    "Ancient philosophers were very interested in the themes of laughter, humor and comedy. They theorized about laughter and its causes, moralized about the appropriate uses of humor and what it is appropriate to laugh at, and wrote treaties on comedic composition. Further, they were often merciless in ridiculing their opponents' positions, often borrowing comedic devices and techniques from comic poetry and drama to do so. The volume is organized around three themes that were important for ancient philosophers: the psychology (...)
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    Comedy and Finitude: Displacing the Tragic‐Heroic Paradigm in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis.Simon Critchley - 1999 - Constellations 6 (1):108-122.
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    Why So Serious: On Philosophy and Comedy.Russell Ford (ed.) - 2017 - New York, NY, USA: Routledge.
    The Western philosophical tradition has shown a marked and perennial fondness for tragedy. From Plato and Aristotle, through the development of Christianity, to German idealism, and even to contemporary reflections on the murderous violence of the twentieth century, philosophy has repeatedly looked to tragedy for resources to make suffering, grief, and death thinkable. But what if by showing such a preference for tragedy, philosophical thought has unwittingly and unknowingly aligned itself with a form of thinking that accepts human suffering and (...)
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    Comedy, Malice, and Philosophy in Plato’s Philebus.James Lewis Wood - 2007 - Ancient Philosophy 27 (1):77-94.
  9. Teaching the Divine Comedy's Understanding of Philosophy.Jason Aleksander - 2012 - Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 13 (1):67-76.
    This essay discusses five main topoi in the Divine Comedy through which teachers might encourage students to explore the question of the Divine Comedy’s treatment of philosophy. These topoi are: (1) The Divine Comedy’s representations in Inferno of noble pagans who are allegorically or historically associated with philosophy or natural reason; (2) its treatment of the relationship between faith and reason and that relationship’s consequences for the text’s understanding of the respective authoritativeness of theology and philosophy; (3) (...)
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    Comedy, Malice, and Philosophy in Plato’s Philebus.James Lewis Wood - 2007 - Ancient Philosophy 27 (1):77-94.
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    The Whole Comedy and Tragedy of Philosophy: On Aristophanes’ Speech in Plato’s Symposium.Drew A. Hyland - 2013 - Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 48 (1):6-18.
    In this essay, I approach the question of comedy and tragedy, as well as their relation to philosophy, in the Platonic dialogues through a focus on the comic poet Aristophanes’ speech in Plato’s Symposium. I elicit both the positive contribution of the poet’s speech as well as its limitations for an understanding of comedy, tragedy, and philosophy.
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    The comedy of philosophy.Moses Léon - 1937 - London,: G. P. Putnam's sons.
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    The comedy of philosophy: Bataille, Hegel and Derrida.Lisa Trahair - 2001 - Angelaki 6 (3):155 – 169.
  14. The comedy of philosophy.Dmitri Nikulin - 2009 - In Katie Terezakis (ed.), Engaging Agnes Heller: A Critical Companion. Lexington Books. pp. 167.
     
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    Comedy and Tragedy and Philosophy in the Symposium.Edmund L. Erde - 1976 - Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 7 (1):161-167.
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    The Comedy of Hegel and the Trauerspiel of Modern Philosophy.Gillian Rose - 1994 - Hegel Bulletin 15 (1):14-22.
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    Philosophy, Comedy, and History.C. Allen Speight - 2021 - In Mark Alznauer (ed.), Hegel on tragedy and comedy: new essays. Albany: State University of New York Press. pp. 265-280.
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  18. Philosophy, comedy, and history : Hegel's Aristophanic modernity.Allen Speight - 2021 - In Mark Alznauer (ed.), Hegel on tragedy and comedy: new essays. Albany: State University of New York Press.
     
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    WHY SO SERIOUS?: on philosophy and comedy.Russell Ford - 2016 - Angelaki 21 (3):1-11.
    The Western philosophical tradition shows a marked fondness for tragedy. From Plato and Aristotle, through German idealism, to contemporary reflections on the murderous violence of the twentieth century, philosophy has often looked to tragedy for resources to make suffering, grief, and death thinkable. But what if, in showing this preference, philosophical thought has unwittingly and unknowingly aligned itself with a form of thinking that accepts injustice without protest? What if tragedy, and the philosophical thinking that mobilizes it, gives a tacit (...)
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    Symptomatic Comedy. On Alenka Zupančič’s The Odd One In and Happiness.Maciej Huzarski - 2024 - Open Philosophy 7 (1):1-18.
    The article investigates a possible omission within Alenka Zupančič conceptualization of comedy as presented in her 2008 book The Odd One In: – on Comedy. The lack which this work will reveal lies in Slovenian philosopher’s neglect of the conditions of possibility of experiencing comedy, which – we claim – hinges upon happiness, a state forged and conditioned by a particular relation with the “other” (the primal object in psychoanalytical meaning). In order to execute such investigation, the (...)
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    Recent continental philosophy and comedy.Bernard Freydberg - 2010 - Philosophy Compass 5 (7):516-524.
    Recently, the philosophical significance of comedy has attracted a great deal of attention from Continental philosophers, including this author. After venturing an account for this sudden interest, this paper surveys six contemporary books that take different views of this phenomenon. This fertile field will surely benefit from the contributions and responses of Philosophy Compass' readers.
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    Hearkening to Thalia: Toward the Rebirth of Comedy in Continental Philosophy.Bernard Freydberg - 2009 - Research in Phenomenology 39 (3):401-415.
    This paper discloses and furthers the rebirth of comedy in Continental philosophy in three stages. The first treats Greek comedy, bringing forth the comic contours in Plato and exploring the philosophical content of Aristophanic comedy. The second examines certain German encounters with comedy, from the staid Wieland translations of Aristophanes through the thoughtful discussions of Schiller, Hegel, and Nietzsche. The third investigates twentieth-century American comedy and its connection to American Continental philosophy, and includes a close (...)
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    The Immortal Comedy: The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life.Agnes Heller - 2005 - Lexington Books.
    This book is the first attempt to think philosophically about the comic phenomenon in literature, art, and life. Working across a substantial collection of comic works author Agnes Heller makes seminal observations on the comic in the work of both classical and contemporary figures. Whether she's discussing Shakespeare, Kafka, Rabelais, or the paintings of Brueghel and Daumier Heller's Immortal Comedy makes a characteristic contribution to modern thought across the humanities.
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    Hegelian Comedy.Martin Donougho - 2016 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 49 (2):196-220.
    Dying is easy; comedy is hard. Comedy is sovereign. I begin with an excerpt from Bertolt Brecht’s Fugitive Conversations. Ziffel, a physicist, is chatting with the worker Kalle: For humor, I always think of the philosopher Hegel.... He had the makings of one of the greatest humorists among the philosophers.... I read his book The Great Logic once, when I had rheumatism and couldn’t move. It’s one of the greatest humorous works of world literature. It treats of the (...)
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    All Too Human: Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy.Lydia L. Moland (ed.) - 2018 - Cham: Springer.
    This book offers an analysis of humor, comedy, and laughter as philosophical topics in the 19th Century. It traces the introduction of humor as a new aesthetic category inspired by Laurence Sterne’s "Tristram Shandy" and shows Sterne’s deep influence on German aesthetic theorists of this period. Through differentiating humor from comedy, the book suggests important distinctions within the aesthetic philosophies of G.W.F. Hegel, Karl Solger, and Jean Paul Richter. The book links Kant’s underdeveloped incongruity theory of laughter to (...)
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    The Comedy of Patricide (or: A Passing Sense of Manliness).Omar Rivera - 2007 - Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (2):353-369.
    This paper is an investigation of the role of comedy in philosophical thinking, particularly of how comedy reveals the erotic dimension of philosophical thinking.In the first half of the paper, I show that the relation between comedy and Eros is a powerful means to understand in what way philosophy is not technē. Philosophy in its erotic and comedic character is, rather, engaged with an appearing of things as ‘birthed’ or ‘living.’ In the second part of the paper, (...)
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    The High Comedy of Philosophy.Alfred H. Lloyd - 1913 - The Monist 23 (4):523-542.
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    Comedy Incarnate: Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping.Noël Carroll - 2007 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    In _Comedy Incarnate_, Noël Carroll surveys the characteristics of Buster Keaton’s unique visual style, to reveal the distinctive experience of watching Keaton’s films. Bold and provocative thesis written by one of America’s foremost film theorists Takes a unique look at the philosophies behind Keaton’s style Weighs visual elements over narrative form in the analysis of the Keaton’s work Provides a fresh vantage point for analysis of film and comedy itself.
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    Serious Comedy: The Philosophical and Theological Significance of Tragic and Comic Writing in the Western Tradition.Patrick Downey - 2000 - Lexington Books.
    Patrick Downey finds comedy at the heart of the Western philosophical and theological tradition. In Serious Comedy Downey tracks tragedy and comedy from the beginning of Western thought to the twentieth century, beginning with an in-depth examination of Aristotle and three Platonic dialogues: the Republic, the Phaedrus, and the Symposium. In the book's second section Downey argues that the Bible is at heart a comedic narrative and analyzes the philosophical and theological implications of this comedy. In (...)
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  30. The Benefits of Comedy: Teaching Ethics Through Shared Laughter.Christine James - 2005 - Academic Exchange Extra (April).
    Over the last three years I have been fortunate to teach an unusual class, one that provides an academic background in ethical and social and political theory using the medium of comedy. I have taught the class at two schools, a private liberal arts college in western Pennsylvania and a public regional state university in southern Georgia. While the schools vary widely in a number of ways, there are characteristics that the students share: the school in Pennsylvania had a (...)
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    The Comic Agon-Comedy and Philosophy.Peter Murphy - 2006 - Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture 10 (3):61-77.
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    The Comedy of Patricide (or: A Passing Sense of Manliness).Omar Rivera - 2007 - Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (2):353-369.
    This paper is an investigation of the role of comedy in philosophical thinking, particularly of how comedy reveals the erotic dimension of philosophical thinking.In the first half of the paper, I show that the relation between comedy and Eros is a powerful means to understand in what way philosophy is not technē. Philosophy in its erotic and comedic character is, rather, engaged with an appearing of things as ‘birthed’ or ‘living.’ In the second part of the paper, (...)
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    The comedy of mind: philosophers stoned, or the pursuit of wisdom.Rupert D. V. Glasgow - 1999 - Lanham: University Press of America.
    Although its subject is the relationship between philosophy and comedy, this essay is neither flippant nor nihilistic. It instead approaches philosophy through themes borrowed from comedy, including chapters on inversion, paradox, madness, nonsense, and the distinction between appearance and reality. Beyond his authorship of two previous books on theories of comedy (Madness, Masks, and Laughter and Split Down the Sides), Glasgow's credentials are not stated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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    Shaun May (2016) A Philosophy of Comedy on Stage and Screen: You Have to Be There.Cameron Moneo - 2018 - Film-Philosophy 22 (1):134-137.
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    Shaun May (2016) A Philosophy of Comedy on Stage and Screen: You Have to Be There.Cameron Moneo - 2018 - Film-Philosophy 22 (2):309-312.
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    Comedy Incarnate: Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping.Noël Carroll - 2007 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    In _Comedy Incarnate_, Noël Carroll surveys the characteristics of Buster Keaton’s unique visual style, to reveal the distinctive experience of watching Keaton’s films. Bold and provocative thesis written by one of America’s foremost film theorists Takes a unique look at the philosophies behind Keaton’s style Weighs visual elements over narrative form in the analysis of the Keaton’s work Provides a fresh vantage point for analysis of film and comedy itself.
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    Comedy Incarnate: Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping.Noël Carroll - 2007 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    In _Comedy Incarnate_, Noël Carroll surveys the characteristics of Buster Keaton’s unique visual style, to reveal the distinctive experience of watching Keaton’s films. Bold and provocative thesis written by one of America’s foremost film theorists Takes a unique look at the philosophies behind Keaton’s style Weighs visual elements over narrative form in the analysis of the Keaton’s work Provides a fresh vantage point for analysis of film and comedy itself.
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    Comedy Incarnate: Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping.NoË Carroll & L. - 2007 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    In Comedy Incarnate, Noël Carroll surveys the characteristics of Buster Keaton’s unique visual style, to reveal the distinctive experience of watching Keaton’s films. Bold and provocative thesis written by one of America’s foremost film theorists Takes a unique look at the philosophies behind Keaton’s style Weighs visual elements over narrative form in the analysis of the Keaton’s work Provides a fresh vantage point for analysis of film and comedy itself.
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    Comedy Incarnate: Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping.NoË Carroll & L. - 2008 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    In Comedy Incarnate, Noël Carroll surveys the characteristics of Buster Keaton’s unique visual style, to reveal the distinctive experience of watching Keaton’s films. Bold and provocative thesis written by one of America’s foremost film theorists Takes a unique look at the philosophies behind Keaton’s style Weighs visual elements over narrative form in the analysis of the Keaton’s work Provides a fresh vantage point for analysis of film and comedy itself.
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    Science and the Human Comedy. Natural Philosophy in French Literature from Rabelais to MaupertuisHarcourt Brown.Robert J. Ellrich - 1977 - Isis 68 (3):458-460.
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    Divine Comedies: Post-Theology and Laughter in the Films of Bruno Dumont.Chelsea Birks & Lisa Coulthard - 2019 - Film-Philosophy 23 (3):247-263.
    The films of Bruno Dumont are tied to unwatchability, austerity, and a post-theological seriousness. Recently, however, Dumont has taken a surprising turn towards comedy; and yet these comedies are not without the post-theological despair that characterizes his earlier films. Taking Dumont's comedy seriously, this article frames Dumont's comedic turn not as a deviation but rather as a realignment that requires retroactive reconsideration of his oeuvre's post-theological orientation. We interrogate the philosophical implications of laughter in Dumont's work and argue (...)
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    Comedy as dissonant rhetoric.Simon Lambek - 2023 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 49 (9):1107-1127.
    This article considers the normative and critical value of popular comedy. I begin by assembling and evaluating a range of political theory literature on comedy. I argue that popular comedy can be conducive to both critical and transformative democratic effects, but that these effects are contingent on the way comedic performances are received by audiences. I illustrate this by means of a case study of a comedic climate change ‘debate’ from the television show, Last Week Tonight. Drawing (...)
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    Comedy as dissonant rhetoric.Simon Lambek - 2023 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 49 (9):1107-1127.
    This article considers the normative and critical value of popular comedy. I begin by assembling and evaluating a range of political theory literature on comedy. I argue that popular comedy can be conducive to both critical and transformative democratic effects, but that these effects are contingent on the way comedic performances are received by audiences. I illustrate this by means of a case study of a comedic climate change ‘debate’ from the television show, Last Week Tonight. Drawing (...)
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    Comedy as dissonant rhetoric.Simon Lambek - 2023 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 49 (9):1107-1127.
    This article considers the normative and critical value of popular comedy. I begin by assembling and evaluating a range of political theory literature on comedy. I argue that popular comedy can be conducive to both critical and transformative democratic effects, but that these effects are contingent on the way comedic performances are received by audiences. I illustrate this by means of a case study of a comedic climate change ‘debate’ from the television show, Last Week Tonight. Drawing (...)
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    Comedy as dissonant rhetoric.Simon Lambek - 2023 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 49 (9):1107-1127.
    This article considers the normative and critical value of popular comedy. I begin by assembling and evaluating a range of political theory literature on comedy. I argue that popular comedy can be conducive to both critical and transformative democratic effects, but that these effects are contingent on the way comedic performances are received by audiences. I illustrate this by means of a case study of a comedic climate change ‘debate’ from the television show, Last Week Tonight. Drawing (...)
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    Chapter One. Tragedy, Comedy, and Philosophy in Antiquity.Neil G. Robertson & David Peddle - 2003 - In Neil G. Robertson & David Peddle (eds.), Philosophy and Freedom the Legacy of James Doull. University of Toronto Press. pp. 21-54.
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    Old Comedy and Athenian Power.Leah Lazar - 2024 - Polis 41 (1):51-75.
    In this article, jumping off from Geoffrey de Ste. Croix’s treatment of Aristophanes and the Megarian Decree, I argue that Old Comedy is an underutilised category of evidence for the study of the popular intellectual history of Athens. My particular focus here is the Athenian empire: how does Old Comedy present Athenian power and what does this comic presentation tell us about how at least some ordinary Athenians understood it? Can one popular Athenian imaginary of the empire be (...)
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    Slipping on Banana Peels, Tumbling into Wells: Philosophy and Comedy.Paul A. Kottman - 2008 - Diacritics 38 (4):3-14.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Slipping on Banana Peels, Tumbling into WellsPhilosophy and ComedyPaul A. Kottman (bio)Alenka Zupančič. The Odd One In: On Comedy. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 2008.[T]he philosopher... is the jest, not only of Thracian handmaids but of the general herd, tumbling into wells and every sort of disaster through his inexperience [hupo apeirias].—Plato, Theaetetus 174cWhy stop philosophy’s most precious intrinsic comedy when it comes to comedy?—Alenka Zupančič, The (...)
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  49. "And Why Not?" Hegel, Comedy, and the End of Art.Lydia L. Moland - 2016 - Verifiche: Rivista Trimestrale di Scienze Umane (1-2):73-104.
    Towards the very end of his wide-ranging lectures on the philosophy of art, Hegel unexpectedly expresses a preference for comedy over tragedy. More surprisingly, given his systematic claims for his aesthetic theory, he suggests that this preference is arbitrary. This essay suggests that this arbitrariness is itself systematic, given Hegel’s broader claims about unity and necessity in art generally and his analysis of ancient as opposed to modern drama in particular. With the emergence of modern subjectivity, tragic plots lose (...)
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    Tragedy, Comedy, Parody: From Hegel to Klossowski.Russell Ford - 2005 - Diacritics 35 (1):22-46.
    While it has perhaps always accompanied philosophical thought – one immediately thinks of Plato’s Dialogues – the problem of the communication of that thought, and therefore of its capacity to be taught, has acquired a new insistence in the work of post-Kantian thinkers. As evidence of this one could cite Fichte’s repeated efforts to formulate a definitive version of his Wissenschaftslehre, the model of the Bildungsroman that Hegel adopts for his Phenomenology of Spirit, Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous works, Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, (...)
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