Philosophizing with Ibsen
The introduction to this volume offers an overview of Ibsen’s work and its philosophical significance. It traces the influence of nineteenth-century philosophers (Hegel, Kierekegaard, Nietzsche) on Ibsen’s work, but also brings to light how Ibsen’s work has provided material for philosophers from Dilthey, via Adorno, to Cavell. Furthermore, the introduction situates Ibsen’s work within the context of Scandinavian nineteenth-century art and intellectual life and a long-standing European discussion of theater and its philosophical and political relevance. Hedda Gabler remains among Ibsen’s most appreciated—and most thought-provoking—plays, capturing the Weltschmerz of the late Nineteenth Century and the protest against petit bourgeois lifestyles that Hedda Gabler, however flawed and cruel, represents.
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