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The reader will find in the following pages that not only do I find in Ibsen's drama a direct relation to
Hegelian philosophy, but that I also insist that Ibsen's Cycle draws upon the whole rich storehouse of Western civilization. This partly can be explained by the fact that Hegel, too, is drawing
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upon this same storehouse so that to employ Hegel is to employ a multitude of sources. Ibsen, I believe, saw himself as coming at the end of a whole development of the
European spirit, and, like Hegel, of summing up its entire content, but in the form of ambitious dramatic artworks, from
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in Ibsen's final twelve contemporary plays. He contends that the plays are structured with references to the 'three major spiritual traditions' of the West— 'the
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