Ibsen's Hedda Gabler

Kristin Gjesdal is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and Professor II of Philosophy at the University of Oslo. She is the author of Gadamer and The Legacy of German Idealism (CUP, 2009), Herder's Hermeneutics: History, Poetry, Enlightenment (CUP, 2017), and a number of articles in the areas of aesthetics, hermeneutics, and nineteenth-century philosophy. Kristin Gjesdal also works in philosophy of literature, with a special emphasis on Shakespeare and Ibsen. She is the editor of Key Debates in Nineteenth Century European Philosophy (Routledge, 2016), the coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (OUP, 2015) and the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Hermeneutics, and an area editor of nineteenth-century philosophy for The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

When all is said and done, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler: Philosophical Perspectives is a book brimming with intriguing claims and (dis)associations. It is absolutely valuable reading for those who wish to continue to challenge their understanding of what might be Ibsen's most challenging play.

• Series Editor ForewordContributorsAbbreviationsEditor's Introduction1. Nihilism and Boredom in Hedda Gabler, Leonardo F. Lisi2. Where Hedda Dies: The Significance of Place Susan L. Feagin3. Hedda Gabler and the Uses of Beauty Thomas Stern4. The Scars of Modern Life: Hedda Gabler in Adorno's Prism Frode Helland5. "My Life had stood, a Loaded Gun": Agency and Writing in Hedda Gabler, Arnold Weinstein6. Philosophy, Theater and Love: Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and Plato's Symposium, Kristin Boyce7. Hedda's Words: The Work of Language in Hedda Gabler, Toril Moi 8. Against Interpretation? Hedda and the Performing Self Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr9. Two Pistols and Some Papers: Kierkegaard's Seducer and Hedda's Gambit Fred Rush10. Ibsen on History and Historians: Hedda Gabler in a Nietzschean Light Kristin GjesdalBibliographyIndex