Ironies of history

Is it not true that modern philosophy has largely developed as the monological thought of a solitary self, as the self-addressed discourse of an isolated, universal male subject, whose sole condition is a tragic existence marked by mortality? When, with Hegel, the modern subject relates to history, the finite human self proves capable of overcoming the tragedy of death—even the death of God—in the ultimate and definitive liberation of the Absolute which, whilst having the flavour of an epic battle, is embodied rather in a ‘divine comedy’. The text explores the ‘ironies of history’ through three female figures: the English philosopher Gillian Rose, the Italian writer Laura Morante, and the Italian historian Anna Bravo.