O cômico e a subjetividade: a comédia na fenomenologia do espírito de hegel

Abstract

This study aims to present the dynamics of comedy in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit as part of the dialectical movement of the Spirit’s self-representation. To achieve this objective, a theoretical and qualitative research approach was employed, based primarily on bibliographic research and conceptual analysis. The investigation focuses on Hegel’s treatment of comedy, especially in the Phenomenology of Spirit, with brief reference to the Lectures on Aesthetics. The first section offers an analysis of Natural Religion as the religious figure grounded in an immediate identification with nature, in order to introduce key concepts of religion such as representation, fate, and language. Subsequently, the study addresses how the first two stages of the Religion of Art—the abstract work of art and the living work of art—develop the divine representation in human form and establish a relation to the divine rooted in the living character of the artwork. Finally, the last stage of the Religion of Art—the spiritual work of art—is delineated as the full development of the debate concerning normativity within the ethical substance. This last moment is examined in order to highlight comedy as the religious representation that brings about the dissolution of ethical life and the emergence of subjectivity