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The Betrayal of Substance - Death, Literature, and Sexual Difference in Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit” (Hardcover)
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The Betrayal of Substance - Death, Literature, and Sexual Difference in Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit” (Hardcover)
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Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit exerts a unique influence on
contemporary philosophy. Major figures from Jacques Derrida and
Luce Irigaray to Jean-Paul Sartre and Judith Butler were shaped in
large part through their engagement with Hegel’s challenging
masterwork. It unfolds a grand narrative of the ways of thinking
and acting that comprise human experience. Along the way, Hegel
seeks to incorporate all the fundamental structures of human
life—from political community to consciousness to selfhood—into
a whole that encompasses the total movement of human knowledge and
culture. Mary C. Rawlinson offers a critical reading of the
Phenomenology of Spirit that exposes three crucial elisions:
Hegel’s effacements of sexual difference, human mortality, and
literary style. In attempting to arrive at an “absolute
knowing” that would transcend all differences, Hegel discounts
specificity in each of these areas in favor of a generic subject.
Rawlinson turns Hegel’s critique of abstraction against him,
showing how his own phenomenological analysis undermines his
attempt to master difference. Rawlinson’s critique reveals
Hegel’s attempt to erase the difference of his own style,
highlighting his images, tropes, and rhetorical strategies.
Demonstrating how the power of Hegel’s phenomenological method
goes beyond even Hegel’s own project of a pure logic, The
Betrayal of Substance is a magisterial rereading of the
Phenomenology of Spirit that encompasses crucially overlooked sites
of complexity and difference.
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