Abstract

There are relatively few recent works which attempt a serious and genuinely philosophical engagement with Hegel’s writings on aesthetics. Eschewing many of the limited ways in which Hegel is brought into conversations in contemporary literary criticism, Mark Roche has essayed a study of Hegel’s theory of the dramatic genres that seeks not simply to reiterate Hegel’s own thought, but to provide an immanent critique of Hegel’s theory that will be useful for the current critical debate.