Tragedy, Recognition, and the Death of God: Studies in Hegel and Nietzsche

423 Pages·2012·2.17 MB·English

by  Robert R. Williams

Tragedy, Recognition, and the Death of God
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Tragedy, Recognition,
and the Death of God
Studies in Hegel and Nietzsche
Robert R. Williams
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Contents
AbbreviationsofFrequentlyCitedWorks x
Introduction 1
I. Recognition 6
II. Tragedy 8
III. TheKantianFrame 9
1. Hegel’sCriticismofKantandJacobi 10
2. CritiqueofFoundationalism:DecenteringtheSubject 12
3. Hegel’sTrueInfiniteasSocialInfinity:Panentheism 15
4. AContemporaryExpressionoftheFrame:Non-Metaphysical
ReadingsofHegel 16
5. OvercomingtheKantianFrame 21
IV. TheDeathofGodandTheodicyaftertheDeathofGod 26
V. Acknowledgments 29
Part I. Recognition
1. HegelandNietzsche:RecognitionandMaster/Slave 33
I. Hegel:RecognitionandMaster/Slave 34
II. Deleuze:NietzscheAnti-Hegel 38
III. RecognitionandRepresentation 40
IV. IsRecognitionInherentlyServile? 44
V. Genealogy,Hierarchy,andtheQuestionofCommunity 47
2. Aristotle,Hegel,andNietzscheonFriendship 54
I. AristotleonGreatnessofSoul(Megalopsychia) 58
II. AristotleonPhilia 63
III. LimitationsandQuestions 68
IV. Nietzsche:TwoViewsofFriendship 69
V. AnAgonicModelofFriendship? 73
VI. Hegel:Recognition,Friendship,SocialVirtues 77
VII. LoveandtheVirtues:Hegel’sEarlyTheologicalWritings 83
3. TheAgo¯n,Recognition,andtheQuestionofCommunity 87
I. TheAgo¯n 88
II. AffirmativeSocialOntologyinHuman,AllTooHuman 91
III. SocialOntologyinNietzsche’sLaterWritings 94
IV. TheTragicType:TransgressiveExperimentation 100
V. TheAgo¯nandtheWilltoPower 106
Part II. Tragedy
PhilosophyandTragedy 115
4. Hegel’sConceptionofTragedy 120
I. Fate,Love,andReconciliationintheEarlyTheologicalWritings 120
II. TragedyandDialectic 124
III. PreliminarySurveyofHegel’sConceptofTragedy 125
1. TheBackgroundAssumptionsofTragedy 126
2. Action 126
3. Resolution 127
IV. BackgroundoftheTragic:TheDivine–HumanEthicalOrder 127
V. Action 130
VI. TragicResolution 136
5. NietzscheonTragedy 143
I. TheTragicMyth 144
II. ApollinianandDionysianThemes 150
III. ThePhilosophical-ConceptualArticulationoftheTragicMyth 152
Part III. Overcoming the Kantian Frame: The True Infinite
6. Hegel’sConceptoftheTrueInfinite 161
I. TheTrueInfiniteAccordingtoWallace 167
II. TheTrueInfiniteCorrected:StephenHoulgate’sTheOpening
ofHegel’sLogic 171
III. TheTrueInfiniteandHegel’sTheology:Questions 173
IV. TheStubbornnessofFinitude:TheKantianFrame 175
V. CritiqueofKant’sPostulates:TheOught 177
VI. TheDialecticalSelf-SublationofFinitude 180
VII. Reversal:TheTrueInfiniteIncludestheFinite 183
VIII. SummaryandConclusion 185
7. Hegel’sRecastingofTheologicalProofs 190
I. Kant:TheGod-QuestionBothInevitableandImpossibletoAnswer 190
II. CritiqueofKant’sGodPostulateandAttackontheTheologicalProofs 192
III. Jacobi’sObjectionanditsContribution 197
IV. RecastingtheCosmologicalArgumentasAscentofSpirittoGod 203
V. TheOntologicalProof 206
1. Anselm’sArgument:ItsDefect 206
2. TheDifferenceandIdentityBetweenConceptandBeing 210
3. TheWoundofCognition 213
4. HealingtheWoundofCognition 215
5. BeingastheSelf-SpecificationoftheConcept 216
6. CulminationoftheAscent:TheSpeculativeReversal 219
VI. TheOntologicalProof,AbsoluteSpirit,andGod’sEthicalAseity 224
Part IV. God Beyond the Death of God
8. Theogenesis,DivineSuffering,DemythologizingtheDemonic 231
I. IljinonSpeculativeConcreteness 232
II. Hegel’sLogicasSpeculativeTheology 236
III. Hegel’sPanlogistPantheismandItsCrisis 240
IV. TowardsanEvaluationofIljin’sThesis 241
V. O’Regan’sandRicoeur’sTheogonicReadingsofHegel 244
VI. TheTragicCoincidenceofEvilwithFinitude:HumanImputability 247
VII. Hegel’sRejectionofTragicTheologyandTheogony 256
9. NietzscheontheDeathofGodandEternalRecurrence 263
I. LivingwithNihilism:Nietzsche’sTragicExperimentalism 264
II. Nietzsche’sTragicExperimentalismandIrony 269
III. EternalRecurrence 272
IV. TheIncoherenceofEternalRecurrence:KarlLo¨with 275
V. TheCoherenceofEternalRecurrence:WillDudley 277
VI. JoyousFatalism:NietzscheanReligionandTheology 283
10. HegelontheDeathofGod:TheInseparabilityofLoveandAnguish 290
I. Introduction 290
II. TheSuppressionofOthernessandTragedyinTraditional
PhilosophyandTheology 291
III. TheDeathofGodandDivineSuffering 296
IV. Theopassianism,Metaphysics,andOntotheology 302
V. TraditionalOntotheologyastheSubjectiveImpotenceofReason 304
VI. TheAppropriationofReconciliation 312
VII. Hegel’sCritiqueofModernity:TheSeparationofLovefromAnguish 314
11. Nietzsche’sAestheticTheodicy 322
I. Nietzsche’sAtheistTheodicyofThis-WorldRedemption 324
II. MichelHaar:TheodicyAftertheDeathofGod 326
III. Haar’sThreeNietzscheanTheodicies 330
IV. TheMetaphysicsoftheOne:ThereisaWhole 331
V. Anti-metaphysics:Nietzsche’sRecoilagainstIdentityandTotality 333
VI. TheTragicAbsolute:Heraclitus,Hegel,andNietzsche 335
VII. FinalQuestions 344
12. Hegel’sDeathofGodTheodicy 349
I. BeyondtheMoralGod:HarrisandIljinonHegel’sTheodicy 352
II. TheDeathofGodastheSpeculativeIntuition 358
III. TheologyandTragedy:RicoeurandHegelonJob 360
IV. WorldHistoryasCourtofWorldJudgment:Reconciliation
inHegel’sTheodicy 364
V. TheSlaughterhouse:DysteleologicalEvilandDivineConsolation 372
VI. TheAlienWorkofLove:HegelandTillichonDivineLoveandCreativity 378
SelectedBibliography 391
IndexofPersons 401
SubjectIndex 403