Spirit and Social Death
Hegel, Historical Life and Genocide
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12901901 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tom Bunyard (0000-0001-9959-2760, University of Brighton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 410-427 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics and Social Welfare (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-6535 • E-ISSN: 1749-6543 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17496535.2021.1970789 |
| OpenAlex | W3196687505 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
This essay proposes that the interpretations of Hegelian philosophy advanced by Gillian Rose and Robert Pippin may be relevant to the theorisation of genocide. This argument is presented via a discussion of Claudia Card’s contention that genocide can be understood as a form of ‘social death’. According to Card, genocide damages or eradicates what she calls ‘social vitality’: inter-generational social relations that animate, articulate and characterise social groups, and which give meaning and context to individual lives. The essay points out limitations in Card’s claims and proposes that Pippin and Rose could help to respond to those problems. It argues that Pippin’s reading can develop Card’s ideas regarding the collective ‘life’ of groups, and that Rose’s interpretation can remedy difficulties posed by Card’s conception of evil. The essay suggests that, when taken together, this combination of ideas may point towards a means of thinking about Hegel that serves to foreground the pertinence of past disasters to any critical assessment of the present
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Genocide · Hegelianism · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Social life · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Vitality · History · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theology and Sovereignty · War, Ethics, and Justification
Hegel's Idealism
Axis Rule in Occupied Europe
Idealism as Modernism
Phenomenology of Spirit
Confronting Evils
The Drowned and the Saved
Hegel's Practical Philosophy
Don’t Think But Look
Genocide and Social Death
Modernity and the Holocaust
At the Mind's Limits
Slavery and Social Death
The Holocaust Sublime
Hegel contra sociology
Reconsidering the slaughter bench of history
Genocide, the ‘family of mind’ and the romantic signature of Raphael Lemkin
Social death and the loss of a 'world
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |