Naslov
Hegel's definition of satire and the phenomenon of cultural fatigue

Autori
Bulić, Nada

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, prošireni sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Geist der Kunst und Kultur/ The Spirit of Art and Culture. 34th International Hegel Conference of the International Hegel - Society / - , 2022, 1-1

Skup
Geist der Kunst und Kultur/ The Spirit of Art and Culture. 34th International Hegel Conference of the International Hegel - Society

Mjesto i datum
Zadar, Hrvatska, 05.09.2022. - 08.09.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
cultural fatigue, Roman satire, Petronius, Hegel

Sažetak
Hegel's definition of satire and the phenomenon of cultural fatigue In this paper Hegel's determination and delimitation of satire as a literary form from the position of Hegel's concept of the experience of a work of art as a history of truth given in its time, as presented in his Lectures on Aesthetics, with special reference to Roman satire, will be examined. Hegel considers satire to be a transitional phase between the ideals of classical and romantic art, believing that at its origin there is a divergence of the objective world with the abstract idea of virtue and truth. From this it follows that satire is basically an expression of frustration that occurs as a result of the impossibility of agreement between the abstract inner orientation and the virtue of the thinking subject, and the corruption of its contemporaneity. Hegel observes the limitations of satire using the example of Roman satirists ; he does not, however, include Petronius in their number, believing that, in contrast to empirical reality, Roman satirists glumly cling to the wrong tone of their own subjectivity and its abstract principles, and that for this reason Roman satire produces neither real poetry nor real works of art. Characterized by a virtue that adheres to itself with rigid energy, according to Hegel, satire comes into contrast with reality and cannot achieve a true poetic resolution of the false and repulsive, nor true reconciliation with the truth. The paper expands the horizon of the experience of Roman satire as a possibility of overcoming its given limitations. The phenomena described in Roman satire rise above the level of mere descriptions of individual cases of character flaws and negative phenomena in society ; placed in the context of a phenomenological description of cultural fatigue (defatigatus cultus humani) they are interpreted as identifiers of loss of the internal impulse of development and the disintegration of Roman culture and civilization that will occur centuries later. Thus, satirical descriptions are understood as the product of an inspired artistic spirit that, with its refined artistic sensibility, saw the historical inevitability of the downfall of the Roman world. On the level of literary form, the mixing of poetic and prose expression in Petronius' Satyricon, strictly forbidden by classical literary traditions, also testifies to the dissolution of classical ideals on a symbolic level. In the spirit of Hegel's concept of inherited culture that lives only in understanding, the experience of Roman satire through this expansion of its horizon, understood as a description of the phenomenon of cultural fatigue, opens the possibility of its actualization in the context of understanding the problems of contemporary society (political repression, problems involving the relationship between individual freedom and political justice, the marginalization of humanistic scholarship and education, the ideology of consumerism, the ghettoization of art, etc.) as indicators of cultural fatigue and the need to reinterpret the fundamental determinants of the European tradition. Ultimately, the question arises whether it is possible to establish a universally applicable key for recognizing this phenomenon.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija, Filologija, Književnost

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