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Winner of the 2020 Hegelpd-Prize presented by the University of Padova Research GroupIn 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, Molière's Tartuffe, Beckett's Endgame, Elizabeth Bishop's and Giacomo Leopardi's late poetry along with Thucydides'History in this way, Nuzzo finds an unprecedented and productive way to render Hegel's Logic alive and engaging. She argues that Melville's Billy Budd is the most successful embodiment of the abstract movement of thinking presented in Hegel's Logic, connecting Billy Budd's stutter to the puzzlingly inarticulate beginning of Hegel's Logic,'Being, pure Being,'identical with'Nothing,'and argues that the Logic serves as an especially appropriate tool for understanding the sudden violent action that strikes Claggart dead. Through these and other readings, Nuzzo finds a fresh way to address interpretive issues that have remained unresolved for almost two centuries in Hegel scholarship, and also presents well-known works of literatu

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Author

Angelica Nuzzo

Publisher

State University of New York Press; SUNY Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781438472041

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Literary Criticism, Social Science