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Szondi and Hegel: "The Troubled Relationship of Literary Criticism to Philosophy"

In "Hegel's Theory of Literature" (1964-65, pub. 1974), Peter Szondi observes that without the "thoroughgoing mediation" between the general intellectual form of the "concept" and the "historical-empirical" reality of particular art forms introduced with Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics into philosophy, such landmark works in "modern philosophy of art" as Lukács's Theory of the Novel, Benjamin's Origin of German Tragic Drama, and Adorno's Philosophy of Modern Music "are unthinkable."¹ To Szondi's list of Hegel's twentieth-century theoretical descendants, we can add Szondi himself, whose insistence upon the essential relation between art and philosophy remains, like Hegel's, invaluable for any thinking through and...