Hegel on Self-Consciousness

Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit

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ID19949865
AuthorsRobert B Pippin (0000-0002-4589-9190, corresponding author)
Year2010
Pages120
Publication date2010-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueHegel on Self-Consciousness (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPrinceton University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9781400836949
OpenAlexW2256697151
ISBN9781400836949
Open LibraryOL29031036M
LanguageEN
Citations received16

In the most influential chapter of his most important philosophical work, the Phenomenology of Spirit , Hegel makes the central and disarming assertions that "self-consciousness is desire itself" and that it attains its "satisfaction" only in another self-consciousness. Hegel on Self-Consciousness presents a groundbreaking new interpretation of these revolutionary claims, tracing their roots to Kant's philosophy and demonstrating their continued relevance for contemporary thought. As Robert Pippin shows, Hegel argues that we must understand Kant's account of the self-conscious nature of consciousness as a claim in practical philosophy, and that therefore we need radically different views of human sentience, the conditions of our knowledge of the world, and the social nature of subjectivity and normativity. Pippin explains why this chapter of Hegel's Phenomenology should be seen as the basis of much later continental philosophy and the Marxist, neo-Marxist, and critical-theory traditions. He also contrasts his own interpretation of Hegel's assertions with influential interpretations of the chapter put forward by philosophers John McDowell and Robert Brandom

Consciousness · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Psychoanalysis · Self-consciousness · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Psychology · 19th century · Awareness · georg wilhelm friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) · German literature · German literature, history and criticism · History and criticism

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