The Highway of Despair : : Critical Theory After Hegel / / Robyn Marasco.

Hegel's "highway of despair," introduced in his Phenomenology of Spirit, represents the tortured path traveled by "natural consciousness" on its way to freedom. Despair, the passionate residue of Hegelian critique, also indicates fugitive opportunities for freedom and preser...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:New Directions in Critical Theory ; 41
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART 1. DIALECTICS AND DESPAIR
  • 1. Hegel, the Wound
  • 2. Kierkegaard's Diagnostics
  • PART 2. DIALECTICAL REMAINS
  • 3. Theodor W. Adorno: Aporetics
  • 4. Georges Bataille: Aleatory Dialectics
  • 5. Frantz Fanon: Critique, with Knives
  • Concluding Postscript
  • Notes
  • Index