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Hegel and Shakespeare on moral imagination

Jennifer Ann Bates

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A Hegelian reading of good and bad luck in Shakespearean drama (phen. of spirit, King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, a Midsummer night's dream)
Tearing the fabric: Hegel's Antigone, Shakespeare's Coriolanus, and kinship-state conflict (phen. of spirit c. 6, Judith Butler's Antigone, Coriolanus)
Aufhebung and anti-aufhebung: geist and ghosts in Hamlet (phen. of spirit, Hamlet)
The problem of genius in King Lear: Hegel on the feeling soul and the tragedy of wonder (anthropology and psychology in the encyclopaedia, Philosophy of mind, King Lear)
Richard II's mirror and the alienation of the Universal Will (of the I that is a We) (Richard II, phen. of spirit c. 5)
Falstaff and the politics of wit: negative infinite judgment in a culture of alienation (Henry IV parts I & II, phen. of spirit c. 6, philosophy of right)
Henry V's unchangeableness: his rejection of wit and his posture of virtue reinterpreted in the light of Hegel's theory of virtue (philosophy of right, Henry V)
Hegel's theory of crime and evil: (re)tracing the rights of the sovereign self (aesthetics, phen. of spirit, phil. of right, Richard II through to Henry V)
Richard III, Hamlet, Macbeth and Henry V: conscience, hypocrisy, self-deceit and the tragedy of ethical life (phil. of right, Richard III, Hamlet, Macbeth, Henry V)
Negation of the negative infinite judgment versus sublation of it: punishment vs. pardon (phil. of right, phen. of spirit c. 6 and Henry VIII)
Universal wit : the absolute theater of identity (phen. of spirit c. 6 and 8, Pericles, the Tempest)
Absolute infections and their cure (phen. of spirit c. 6, the Winter's tale).

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