Remnants of Hegel : remains of ontology, religion, and community / Félix Duque ; translated by Nicholas Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duque, Félix, author.

Contributor:

Walker, Nicholas, 1954- translator.

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy

Standardized Title:

Hegel. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Physical Description:

xiv, 167 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]

Summary:

"In the Preface to the second edition of the Science of Logic, Hegel speaks of an instinctive and unconscious logic whose forms and determinations 'always remain imperceptible and incapable of becoming objective even as they emerge in language.' In spite of Hegel's ambitions to provide a philosophical system that might transcend messy human nature, Félix Duque argues that human nature remains stubbornly present in precisely this way. In this book he responds to the 'remnants' of Hegel's work not to explicate his philosophy, but instead to explore the limits of his thought. He begins with the tension between singularity and universality, both as a metaphysical issue in terms of substance and subject, and as a theological issue in terms of ideas about the human and divine nature of Jesus. Duque argues that the questions these issues bring out require a search for some antecedent authority, for which he turns to Hegel's theory of "second nature" and the idea of nature as reflected in the nation state. He considers Hegel's evaluation of the French Revolution in the context of political and civil life, and in a religious context, how Hegel saw considerations of authority and guilt sublimated and purified in the development of Christianity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Aristotle: a certain underlying nature and the individual "thing"

Not substance, but just as much subject

The reflexive movement of thinking

The unveiling of substance as the genesis of the concept

Begging the question of beginning

The infinite value of subjectivity

The death of Christ and the commencement of history

The strange heart of reason

"I am the unity of fire and water"

Natural death and the death of death

Hegel and the Revolution

after Marxism

Living and thinking Hegel's own time

A literal reading of Hegel

Hegel's two "terrors"

Metal and water: beheading and drowning

Fanaticism as a chemical precipitate

An inverted allegory of the cave

From the absolute negativity to the element of freedom

The entire remnant of the idea

Person as a relational nature

Abstract right and legal recognition

Ethical life and bourgeois virtues

A strange sort of redemption

The Devil, the Good Lord and human blood

Man as the possibility of God: Passio Christi

Cultus and Eucharist as manducatio spiritualis

The Spirit as the wound of time

The fullness of time as the exhaustion of time.

Notes:

Translation of: Hegel : la especulación de la indigencia.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438471570

1438471572

OCLC:

1037037853