In defense of Hegel’s madness

pages: 785-812

Autori

  • Slavoj Žižek University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy, Ljubljana, Slovenia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1504785Z

Apstrakt

The article is a confrontation with Robert Brandom’s reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, his attempt to systematically “renormalize” Hegel, i.e., to reduce his extravagant formulations to the criteria of common sense. The article analyses a number of Brandom’s “domestications” of Hegel’s speculative concepts: self-relating, determinate negation, mediation, In-itself, action, knowledge, Spirit, reconciliation, history. On the basis of the examples from Marx, Freud, structuralism, Lévi-Strauss, Althusser, Lacan, Adorno, the text defends Hegel’s “madness”, the irreducible speculative, non-interpretable core of his philosophy. Hegel’s statements have to shock us, and this excess cannot be explained away through interpretation since the truth they deliver hinges on that. Keywords: Hegel, Brandom, in-itself, action, history

Reference

Brandom, Robert (2014), A Spirit of Trust: A Semantic Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology, available online at http://www.pitt.edu/~brandom/spirit_of_trust_2014.html.

Doyle, Arthur Conan (1981), “Silver Blaze”, in: The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes, London: Penguin.

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Hegel, G. W. F. (1991b), Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hegel, G. W. F. (1977), Phenomenology of Spirit, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hegel, G. W. F. (2010), The Science of Logic, London and New York: Routledge.

Jameson, Fredric (2010), The Hegel Variations, London: Verso Books.

Lacan, Jacques (1971), Séminaire XVIII. D’un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant, unpublished.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude (1987), Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss, London: Routledge, Kegan & Paul.

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2015-12-17

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Sekcija

THE SLOVENE RE-ACTUALIZATION OF HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY