Benjamin and Hegel. A Constellation in Metaphysics (CWB (constel·lacions)) by Jan Urbich

Author:Jan Urbich [Urbich, Jan]
Language: eng
Format: azw
Tags: Jan Urbich, Girona, Càtedra Walter Benjamin, Universitat de Girona, Hegel, Georg, Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831, Metafísica, Història, Filosofia, Veritat, Representació, Metaphysics , History, Philosophy, Truth, Representation, Metafísica , Historia, Filosofía, Verdad, Representación
Published: 2016-02-13T16:00:00+00:00

Consciousness, as spirit which along the way of manifesting itself frees itself from its immediacy and external concretion, attains to the pure knowledge that takes these same pure essentialities for its subject matter as they are in and for themselves. They are pure thoughts, spirit that thinks its essence. Their self-movement is their spiritual life and is that through which science constitutes itself, and of which it is the exposition (Darstellung).170

The philosophical Darstellung of the self-development of spirit through the stages of Logic and “philosophy of the real” (Realphilosophie) is not something exterior or secondary to the process of the spirit. Darstellung is the original space of realization for spirit in the course of its becoming truthful actuality, although it is not the only form of its existence. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and the Science of Logic aim therefore at the overcoming of the abstract oppositions that derive from common consciousness, such as subject and object, thing-in-itself and representational idea, eternity and temporality within the prior, more fundamental space of Darstellung: oppositions that construe the insufficient logic of representation as an external way of registering the prior conceptual contents and immediate subject matter according to the faculty of imagination and the “Doctrine of Being”. Therefore, Hegel declares:

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