Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Champlin, Jeffrey

Titel

Hegel’s Faust

Ist Teil von

• Goethe yearbook, 2011, Vol.18 (1), p.115-125

Ort / Verlag

Rochester: North American Goethe Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

Literature Online (LION eBooks)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• "4 In other words, identity dissolves and reconstitutes itself over the course of the drama. [...]Bloch emphasizes that like Hegel's spirit, Faust always progresses to a higher level. [...]it thrilled Hegel's generation and resulted in more reviews even than the later Faust I.7 In terms of Goethe's developing conception of the drama, scholars consider one of the most important aspects of the Fragment to be "die große Lücke," the absence of the pact scene, which, in Fausti ingeniously and perplexingly codifies the relation between striving and damnation. [...]Hegel removes the use of the subjunctive mood at the end ("hätt' er," "müßte doch"), replacing it with the indicative. [...]since there is also a dash in the original text, this interruption also disguises itself as merely an additional citation. First of all," when his soul is taken up by the angels, this does little to explain the significance of Faust's striving." [...]the subjunctive tense of Faust's final words merely "refers us back to the terms of Faust's agreement with Mephistopheles."