Die mütterliche Seite der Dreieinigkeit an einer Stelle der Phänomenologie des Geistes
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Pierluigi Valenza
Abstract
The essay in its first part aims to analyze the only passage in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, in which Hegel mentions the historical birth of Christ, speaking about the mother of absolute self-consciousness as reality and his father as being in itself. The importance of the historical side of Christianity in Hegel’s view as integration of the ontological argument and its difference to every precedent representation of God is presented. In the second part of the essay a hypothesis on the role of this example within the philosophy of religion of that time is formulated through comparison with Görres and Fichte. Görres naturalizes the female and male principles in religion, looking at Hinduism as primitive religion, from which also the Christian Trinity was originated. Fichte, mentioning the mother of God in The Way Towards the Blessed Life, reduces the meaning of the historical side of Christianity, bringing it back to the metaphysical meaning conceived in his philosophy of religion. Hegel’s mention of the example of the birth of God could be interpreted as a different and original way to conceive the rationality of Christianity.
Abstract
The essay in its first part aims to analyze the only passage in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, in which Hegel mentions the historical birth of Christ, speaking about the mother of absolute self-consciousness as reality and his father as being in itself. The importance of the historical side of Christianity in Hegel’s view as integration of the ontological argument and its difference to every precedent representation of God is presented. In the second part of the essay a hypothesis on the role of this example within the philosophy of religion of that time is formulated through comparison with Görres and Fichte. Görres naturalizes the female and male principles in religion, looking at Hinduism as primitive religion, from which also the Christian Trinity was originated. Fichte, mentioning the mother of God in The Way Towards the Blessed Life, reduces the meaning of the historical side of Christianity, bringing it back to the metaphysical meaning conceived in his philosophy of religion. Hegel’s mention of the example of the birth of God could be interpreted as a different and original way to conceive the rationality of Christianity.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Table of Contents VII
- List of Abbreviations/Siglenverzeichnis XIII
- Editors’ Introduction. The Owl’s Flight. Hegel’s Legacy in a Different Voice 1
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Introduction
- Hegel’s Theory of Absolute Spirit as Aesthetic Theory 7
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Section 1 The Night of Reason
- The Dark Side of Thought. The Body, the Unconscious and Madness in Hegel’s Philosophy 23
- The Feminine in Hegel. Between Tragedy and Magic 37
- A Plastic Anthropology? Dialectics and Neuroscience in Catherine Malabou’s Thought 51
- Maternal Consciousness and Recognition in the Anthropology of Hegel 61
- The Rise of Human Freedom in Hegel’s Anthropology 71
- Seele, Verrücktheit, Intersubjektivität. Einige Überlegungen zu Hegels Anthropologie 79
- Die Behandlung der psychischen Störung. Hegel und Pinel gegen die De-Humanisierung der Geisteskranken 91
- Verrücktheit und Idealisierung. Wachen, Schlaf, Traum in Hegels Philosophie des Geistes 103
- Im wachen Zustand träumen. Der Einfluss der Gefühle auf die Entstehung psychischer Krankheiten 115
- Dialectics of Madness: Foucault, Hegel, and the Opening of the Speculative 127
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Section 2 Women for and against Hegel
- Hegel’s Master and Servant Dialectics in the Feminist Debate 141
- Giving an Account of Precarious Life and Vulnerability. Antigone’s Wisdom after Hegel 149
- “Men and women are wonderfully alike after all”. The Practical Adaption of Hegel by Anna C. Brackett (1836–1911) 161
- Simone de Beauvoir Reading Hegel. The Master-Slave Dialectic 173
- Irigaray as a Reader of Hegel. The Feminine as a Marginal Presence 183
- Domination and Exploitation. Feminist Views on the Relational Subject 195
- Subversion without Subject? Criticism of the Dissolution of Nature and I-Identity in Performativity 205
- Considerations on the Female Body between Political Theory and Feminism. The Rehabilitation of Hegel? 213
- Reading Hegel on Women and Laughing. Hegel against or with Women/Other? 223
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Section 3 Female Characters in Hegel’s Philosophy
- Hegel’s Constellation of the Feminine between Philosophy and Life. A Tribute to Dieter Henrich’s Konstellationsforschung 239
- Von Antigone zur anständigen Frau. Hegels Frauenbild im Spannungsfeld zwischen der Phänomenologie des Geistes und der Rechtsphilosophie von 1820 255
- „Der Stand der Frau − Hausfrau“. Hegels Affirmation der bürgerlichen Geschlechterverhältnisse 273
- Antigone and the Phenomenology of Spirit. Between Literary Source (vv. 925–928) and Philosophical Reading 287
- The Feminist Potential of Hegel’s Tragic Heroines 301
- Welches Recht ist gerecht? ‚Sittlichkeit‘ und ‚Gerechtigkeit‘ in Hegels Deutung der Antigone 313
- Antigone’s Guilt. Reading Antigone with Hegel and Butler 327
- Die Tochter der Nacht: „Nemesis“ im Maß. Das Maßlose und die absolute Indifferenz in Hegels Wissenschaft der Logik 337
- Die mütterliche Seite der Dreieinigkeit an einer Stelle der Phänomenologie des Geistes 349
- The Sphinx and Hegel’s Philosophy of History. On the Philosophical Riddle 357
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Section 4 The Twentieth Century and Hegel: Subversion or Conciliation?
- Subversion or Conciliation? The Challenges of Hegel’s Legacy 369
- Hegels Relevanz für den heutigen Diskurs zu „Gemeinschaft/Community“ 375
- The Work of Man and the End-of-History. Hegel Transfigured by Kojève’s Thought 397
- Subjects of Desire and Law Hypothesis on Kojève’s Hegel 407
- Der Andere in der Begierde. Kojèves Hegelianismus und dessen Einfluss auf die französische Philosophie 419
- Kreis und Ellipse Adornos Kritik an Hegel 431
- The Hegelian Influence in Adorno’s Construction of the Idea of Nature 439
- Difference and Affirmation. Deleuze against Hegel 449
- WO-MAN DIFFÉRANCE (I): Figuras indecidibles. Sexual Difference and Gender (Hegel read by Heidegger, read by Derrida, read by Cixous, read by Butler … et ainsi de suite) 461
- The Logic of Remains in Derrida 475
- With Portia in the Passage towards Philosophy. The Place of Translation in Hegel’s System 485
- Reading Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. A Feminist Issue 497
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Section 5 Re-thinking the Absolute Spirit
- Suggestions on a Re-interpretation of Hegel’s Philosophy of Absolute Spirit 509
- Friendship and Religion. Some Missing Elements in Hegel’s Conception of “Lordship and Bondage” 521
- „Das Lob der Frauen“. Hegel und das ästhetische Ideal Schillers 535
- The Reins of the Inconceivable. Contemporary Echoes of Hegel’s Theory on Symbolic Art: Interpreting Kapoor’s Art between Danto, Mitchell and Gadamer 549
- Philosophy and the End of Art. Hegel in Danto’s View 565
- Judaism as the Other of Greek-Christian Civilization. Samuel Hirsch, Franz Rosenzweig, and Ernst Cassirer on Hegel’s Religionsphilosophie 573
- Von Homer bis Hegel. Die Konzeption der Geschichte in Homer und der ‚Traum des Hades‘ als vorstrukturierte Lesart der Hegelschen spekulativen Philosophie 585
- Hegel’s Thought in Egypt. The “East”, Islam, and the Course of History 599
- The “Feminine”. A Breach in the Absolute Levinasian Anti-idealism 611
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Conclusion
- Critique, Refutation, Appropriation: Strategies of Hegel’s Dialectic 625
- List of Contributors 641
- Editors 641
- Invited Contributors 642
- Selected Papers 643
- Index 651
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Table of Contents VII
- List of Abbreviations/Siglenverzeichnis XIII
- Editors’ Introduction. The Owl’s Flight. Hegel’s Legacy in a Different Voice 1
-
Introduction
- Hegel’s Theory of Absolute Spirit as Aesthetic Theory 7
-
Section 1 The Night of Reason
- The Dark Side of Thought. The Body, the Unconscious and Madness in Hegel’s Philosophy 23
- The Feminine in Hegel. Between Tragedy and Magic 37
- A Plastic Anthropology? Dialectics and Neuroscience in Catherine Malabou’s Thought 51
- Maternal Consciousness and Recognition in the Anthropology of Hegel 61
- The Rise of Human Freedom in Hegel’s Anthropology 71
- Seele, Verrücktheit, Intersubjektivität. Einige Überlegungen zu Hegels Anthropologie 79
- Die Behandlung der psychischen Störung. Hegel und Pinel gegen die De-Humanisierung der Geisteskranken 91
- Verrücktheit und Idealisierung. Wachen, Schlaf, Traum in Hegels Philosophie des Geistes 103
- Im wachen Zustand träumen. Der Einfluss der Gefühle auf die Entstehung psychischer Krankheiten 115
- Dialectics of Madness: Foucault, Hegel, and the Opening of the Speculative 127
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Section 2 Women for and against Hegel
- Hegel’s Master and Servant Dialectics in the Feminist Debate 141
- Giving an Account of Precarious Life and Vulnerability. Antigone’s Wisdom after Hegel 149
- “Men and women are wonderfully alike after all”. The Practical Adaption of Hegel by Anna C. Brackett (1836–1911) 161
- Simone de Beauvoir Reading Hegel. The Master-Slave Dialectic 173
- Irigaray as a Reader of Hegel. The Feminine as a Marginal Presence 183
- Domination and Exploitation. Feminist Views on the Relational Subject 195
- Subversion without Subject? Criticism of the Dissolution of Nature and I-Identity in Performativity 205
- Considerations on the Female Body between Political Theory and Feminism. The Rehabilitation of Hegel? 213
- Reading Hegel on Women and Laughing. Hegel against or with Women/Other? 223
-
Section 3 Female Characters in Hegel’s Philosophy
- Hegel’s Constellation of the Feminine between Philosophy and Life. A Tribute to Dieter Henrich’s Konstellationsforschung 239
- Von Antigone zur anständigen Frau. Hegels Frauenbild im Spannungsfeld zwischen der Phänomenologie des Geistes und der Rechtsphilosophie von 1820 255
- „Der Stand der Frau − Hausfrau“. Hegels Affirmation der bürgerlichen Geschlechterverhältnisse 273
- Antigone and the Phenomenology of Spirit. Between Literary Source (vv. 925–928) and Philosophical Reading 287
- The Feminist Potential of Hegel’s Tragic Heroines 301
- Welches Recht ist gerecht? ‚Sittlichkeit‘ und ‚Gerechtigkeit‘ in Hegels Deutung der Antigone 313
- Antigone’s Guilt. Reading Antigone with Hegel and Butler 327
- Die Tochter der Nacht: „Nemesis“ im Maß. Das Maßlose und die absolute Indifferenz in Hegels Wissenschaft der Logik 337
- Die mütterliche Seite der Dreieinigkeit an einer Stelle der Phänomenologie des Geistes 349
- The Sphinx and Hegel’s Philosophy of History. On the Philosophical Riddle 357
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Section 4 The Twentieth Century and Hegel: Subversion or Conciliation?
- Subversion or Conciliation? The Challenges of Hegel’s Legacy 369
- Hegels Relevanz für den heutigen Diskurs zu „Gemeinschaft/Community“ 375
- The Work of Man and the End-of-History. Hegel Transfigured by Kojève’s Thought 397
- Subjects of Desire and Law Hypothesis on Kojève’s Hegel 407
- Der Andere in der Begierde. Kojèves Hegelianismus und dessen Einfluss auf die französische Philosophie 419
- Kreis und Ellipse Adornos Kritik an Hegel 431
- The Hegelian Influence in Adorno’s Construction of the Idea of Nature 439
- Difference and Affirmation. Deleuze against Hegel 449
- WO-MAN DIFFÉRANCE (I): Figuras indecidibles. Sexual Difference and Gender (Hegel read by Heidegger, read by Derrida, read by Cixous, read by Butler … et ainsi de suite) 461
- The Logic of Remains in Derrida 475
- With Portia in the Passage towards Philosophy. The Place of Translation in Hegel’s System 485
- Reading Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. A Feminist Issue 497
-
Section 5 Re-thinking the Absolute Spirit
- Suggestions on a Re-interpretation of Hegel’s Philosophy of Absolute Spirit 509
- Friendship and Religion. Some Missing Elements in Hegel’s Conception of “Lordship and Bondage” 521
- „Das Lob der Frauen“. Hegel und das ästhetische Ideal Schillers 535
- The Reins of the Inconceivable. Contemporary Echoes of Hegel’s Theory on Symbolic Art: Interpreting Kapoor’s Art between Danto, Mitchell and Gadamer 549
- Philosophy and the End of Art. Hegel in Danto’s View 565
- Judaism as the Other of Greek-Christian Civilization. Samuel Hirsch, Franz Rosenzweig, and Ernst Cassirer on Hegel’s Religionsphilosophie 573
- Von Homer bis Hegel. Die Konzeption der Geschichte in Homer und der ‚Traum des Hades‘ als vorstrukturierte Lesart der Hegelschen spekulativen Philosophie 585
- Hegel’s Thought in Egypt. The “East”, Islam, and the Course of History 599
- The “Feminine”. A Breach in the Absolute Levinasian Anti-idealism 611
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Conclusion
- Critique, Refutation, Appropriation: Strategies of Hegel’s Dialectic 625
- List of Contributors 641
- Editors 641
- Invited Contributors 642
- Selected Papers 643
- Index 651