Continental Philosophy - A Very Short Introduction by Simon Critchley

Author:Simon Critchley [Critchley, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0192853597
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-10-04T17:59:48+00:00

11. Facsimile of the first page of the System Programme 65

Boumann, it was not included in their 1834 5 colection of miscelaneous Hegelian writings, probably because the text did not harmonize wel with the more conservative views of the mature Hegel. The System-Programme was one of the last of Hegel's texts to be of ered up for auction in Berlin in 1913, when it was bought by the Prussian State Library. The first publication and commentary of the text was in 1917 when it at racted the at ention of the great GermanJewish philosopher, Franz Rosenzweig, who gave the text its now famous title and who initiated the extensive philosophical discussion to which the SystemProgramme has given rise.The text neatly crystal izes a number of themes in post-Kantian thought. Here are eight key discussion points that it raises, but there are others.

1. The idea (that we already met in Chapter 2) that what is required philosophical y after Kant is a reconciliation of the dualisms of critical system combined with the romantic idea that the artwork is the vehicle for such a reconciliation. The artwork provides a sensuous image of freedom, and brings into harmony the domains of nature and reason.

2. The idea that in order to create this artwork the philosopher must become like the poet, and possess the same aesthetic power. Philosophy and poetry separated since Plato's Republic must become one.

3. The unification of philosophy and poetry in an artwork is of a piece with the demand for a mythology of reason, which would al ow the people to become rational and the philosophers to become sensuous. At this point, eternal unity wil reign among us . The idea here is that in order to become social y ef ective, the ideas of reason have to become concrete. Thus, the way in which the formalism of Kantian rationality is to be avoided is by embodying reason in the form of myth. This is what is also cal ed in the text a sensuous religion .

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