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Tragedy, Recognition, and the Death of God - Studies in Hegel and Nietzsche (Hardcover)
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Tragedy, Recognition, and the Death of God - Studies in Hegel and Nietzsche (Hardcover)
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Hegel and Nietzsche are two of the most important figures in
philosophy and religion. Robert R. Williams challenges the view
that they are mutually exclusive. He identifies four areas of
convergence. First, Hegel and Nietzsche express and define modern
interest in tragedy as a philosophical topic. Each seeks to correct
the traditional philosophical and theological suppression of a
tragic view of existence. This suppression of the tragic is
required by the moral vision of the world, both in the tradition
and in Kant's practical philosophy and its postulates. For both
Hegel and Nietzsche, the moral vision of the world is a projection
of spurious, life-negating values that Nietzsche calls the ascetic
ideal, and that Hegel identifies as the spurious infinite. The
moral God is the enforcer of morality. Second, while acknowledging
a tragic dimension of existence, Hegel and Nietzsche nevertheless
affirm that existence is good in spite of suffering. Both affirm a
vision of human freedom as open to otherness and requiring
recognition and community. Struggle and contestation have
affirmative significance for both. Third, while the moral God is
dead, this does not put an end to the God-question. Theology must
incorporate the death of God as its own theme. The union of God and
death expressing divine love is for Hegel the basic speculative
intuition. This implies a dipolar, panentheistic concept of a
tragic, suffering God, who risks, loves, and reconciles. Fourth,
Williams argues that both Hegel and Nietzsche pursue theodicy, not
as a justification of the moral God, but rather as a question of
the meaningfulness and goodness of existence despite nihilism and
despite tragic conflict and suffering. The inseparability of divine
love and anguish means that reconciliation is no conflict-free
harmony, but includes a paradoxical tragic dissonance:
reconciliation is a disquieted bliss in disaster.
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