TY  - CHAP
A1  - Deiters, Franz-Josef
A2  - Richter, Simon
T1  - Effacement vs. exposure of the poetic act : philosophy and literature as producers of "history" (Hegel vs. Goethe)
T2  - Goethe's ghosts : reading and the persistence of literature
N2  - In post-Kantian idealist aesthetics, at the very latest, literature and philosophy come to rival each other as producers of "history" At this point, philosophy takes it upon itself to "adopt" art and literature, treating the image as an object upon which to lavish the philosophical "labor of the concept" and explicitly asserting the primacy of concept over image. This objectivation of the image by the concept, however, goes hand in hand with the attempt to cover up and efface the poetic act that underlies the paradigm of "history," an act that had still informed the older, premodern meaning of the concept and had been conspicuously retained and reflected in the modern literary genre of historical drama. I therefore wish to propose that the origin of the logocentric discourse of history is to be found in Hegel's philosophy of art. In the first part of my essay, I will accordingly set out to reconstruct Hegel's effacement of the poetic origin of "history" by jointly examining his aesthetics and his philosophy of history. In the second part, I will confront Hegel's logocentric approach with a reading of Goethe's historical drama Egmont that exposes the poetic origin of "history" and thereby offers an alternative to Hegel's logocentrism.
KW  - Geschichte <Motiv>
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/37264
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-372641
SN  - 978-1-57113-567-4
SP  - 239
EP  - 261
PB  - Camden House
CY  - Rochester, New York
ER  -