Hegel and the Art of Negation: Negativity, Creativity and Contemporary Thought by Andrew Hass

Author:Andrew Hass [Hass, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Logic, Religious, Political Theory, Religion, Hegelian Philosophy, Negativity, Philosophy, History of ideas, Hegelianism
ISBN: 9781780765570
Google: ot3jMgEACAAJ
Goodreads: 19475519
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: 2013-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

The Living of Hegel and Negation: Kristeva, Nancy, Agamben, Žižek, Malabou

It is impossible to read contemporary appropriations and figurations of Hegel’s negation without going through the prism of the Derrida we have tried, in a dangerously foreshortened manner, to configure in the previous chapter. For as Derrida himself exemplified, any taking up of Hegel and his negation is always both a re-appropriation and a dis-appropriation, a re-figuration and a dis-figuration, any of which can be made only through another. This alter-ation might in fact be another Hegel, but now a Hegel as the Aufhebung to himself, which always manifests itself in another thinker. Such an Aufhebung – the cogenitivity within ‘the Aufhebung of Hegel’ – has a long nineteenth- and twentieth-century history (Kierkegaard, Marx, Feuerbach, Kojève, Bataille, Heidegger, Sartre, Hyppolite, Blanchot, Adorno, Derrida…), and it tells us something about the history of Hegel: history works by negation. If we have arrived now at a living history, a history made present in figures still living, this only says that the present negation is itself historical, and must be read through its history. Derrida is now a spectral figure in this history, a spirit who remains behind each of the thinkers we now (selectively and briefly) turn to, even if their own work is elsewhere to Derrida, or elsewhere to his Hegel.

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