Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 41 No. 2, 2021.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21464/fi41207
From Hegel to the Ancient Genre of Gnome – Dialectical Method in Sophocle’s Tragedy Oedipus Rex
Vladimir Rismondo
; Sveučilište J. J. Strossmayera u Osijeku, Akademija za umjetnost i kulturu, Ulica kralja Petra Svačića 1/F, HR–31000 Osijek
Abstract
Hegel’s viewpoint on Greek tragedy is a valuable way-station in any theoretical as well as practical consideration of dramatic play. Hegel considered Greek tragedy from the perspective of his dialectical system, thereby indirectly influencing dramaturgical practice in the 19th and 20th centuries. This is why the paper explores Sophocle’s tragedy Oedipus Rex from the viewpoint of Hegel’s theoretical perspective, as well as practical perspectives based on an influential textbook on playwriting by Lajos Egri. The paper further explores the different understandings of dialectics in philosophical and dramatic dialogue. Also, it addresses the kind of applied dialecticism in the work of Greek artists of the 5th century BC. Finally, the text explores the early Greek literary form gnome, which is – hypothetically speaking – the source of the later Greek understanding of dialectics.
Keywords
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; dialectics; Lajos Egri; Sofocles; Oedipus; drama; dialogue; sculpture; gnome
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260159
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Publication date:
9.7.2021.
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