Approaching Hegel's Logic, Obliquely: Melville, Moliere, Beckett

by Angelica Nuzzo

Book Overview

Winner of the 2020 Hegelpd-Prize presented by the University of Padova Research Group

In this book, Angelica Nuzzo proposes a reading of Hegel's Logic as "logic of transformation" and "logic of action," and supports this thesis by looking to works of literature and history as exemplary of Hegel's argument and method. By examining Melville's Billy Budd, Moli?re's Tartuffe, Beckett's Endgame, Elizabeth Bishop's and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438472048
• ISBN13: 9781438472041
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"