Introduction
Chapter 1: Losing Time (The Vikings at Helgeland)
Chapter 2: History Adrift; Subjectivity Probed (Peer Gynt)
Chapter 3: Ruins of Antiquity (Emperor and Galilean)
Chapter 4: Modern Times (A Doll's House)
Chapter 5: Tragedy and Tradition (Ghosts)
Chapter 6: Teaching History (An Enemy of The People)
Chapter 7: History and Existence (Hedda Gabler)
Conclusion
Kristin Gjesdal is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University.
Her areas of specialization include Nineteenth-Century philosophy,
aesthetics, and hermeneutics. She is the author of Gadamer and the
Legacy of German Idealism (Cambridge University Press, 2009/2011)
and Herder's Hermeneutics: History, Poetry, Enlightenment
(Cambridge University Press, 2017/2019) and the editor and
co-editor of seven volumes, including Ibsen's
Hedda Gabler: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press,
2018). She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and
Letters.
"Kristin Gjesdal has written a lucid, fascinating book that will be
valuable both for literary scholars and for philosophers. Without
in the slightest sacrificing attention to the distinctive literary
dimensions of Ibsen's work, she shows in unusual detail how his
dramas bear on modern historical self-consciousness and on
philosophers concerned with the same problems of historicity, like
Hegel and Nietzsche. The Ibsen who emerges from her study is as
compelling
a thinker as he is a dramatist." -- Robert B. Pippin, The Evelyn
Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy and
Chair of The John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, The
University
of Chicago
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