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Aporia and Phantasm modern law, the tragic and time1

Aporia and Phantasm modern law, the tragic and time1 Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities 4:1 1999 preface he following paper is concerned with the THegelian reading of tragic drama and the tragic with regard to the modern and contemporary fates of political invention. It places this reading in the context of Hegel's engagement with modernity, showing how Hegel's analogy between the tragic and the political argues for the complexity of political life and for a relation, suppressed in modern law, between the law of rights and the actuality of violence. The tragic is thereby shown to develop the relation between reason and sensibility, introducing time into a philosophical account of the relations between universality and particularity. The paper suggests that this argument has been underesti- richard beardsworth mated by recent "French" readings of Hegel (in terms of the "totalistic," if not "totalitarian"), an underestimation that has reduced, wrongly, the APORIA AND continuing importance of Hegel's philosophy for political thought today. It goes on to show, however, PHANTASM that Hegel's attempt to think a temporal experience of law itself disavows time, both locating the modern law, the tragic purchase of the "French" reading of Hegel in this and time1 "disavowal of time" and showing that the Hegelian equation http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities Taylor & Francis

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Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities 4:1 1999 preface he following paper is concerned with the THegelian reading of tragic drama and the tragic with regard to the modern and contemporary fates of political invention. It places this reading in the context of Hegel's engagement with modernity, showing how Hegel's analogy between the tragic and the political argues for the complexity of political life and for a relation, suppressed in modern law, between the law of rights and the actuality of violence. The tragic is thereby shown to develop the relation between reason and sensibility, introducing time into a philosophical account of the relations between universality and particularity. The paper suggests that this argument has been underesti- richard beardsworth mated by recent "French" readings of Hegel (in terms of the "totalistic," if not "totalitarian"), an underestimation that has reduced, wrongly, the APORIA AND continuing importance of Hegel's philosophy for political thought today. It goes on to show, however, PHANTASM that Hegel's attempt to think a temporal experience of law itself disavows time, both locating the modern law, the tragic purchase of the "French" reading of Hegel in this and time1 "disavowal of time" and showing that the Hegelian equation

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Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities – Taylor & Francis

Published: May 1, 1999

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