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Illness And Dialectic In Hegel’s The Philosophy Of Nature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20082234 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tilottama Rajan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Pages | 217-236 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9781403981394_12 |
| OpenAlex | W2501505502 |
| ISBN | 9781403981394 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Hegel is often seen as a thinker who assimilates, or more melodramatically, "digests" otherness, including the self 's otherness to itself. His philosophies of art, religion, and other subjects exemplify this incorporation of the other into an encyclopedic dialectical system. The redescription of alien domains in the terms of Hegelian philosophy can be seen as cognitive imperialism.2 Or this subsumption into a philosophical absolute of the process whereby spirit complicates itself may be located in the very structure of the dialectic as self-consciousness. Thus Gasche describes Hegelian self-reflection as the self-constitution of philosophy: even "the reflective mirroring process" is recuperated as an "alienating or metaphoric detour to itself."3 Indeed Hegel himself parallels self-reflection and digestion. Noting that in chemical interactions each substance "loses its quality," whereas the animal always "preserves" itself by "sublat [ing]" the "object and the negative," Hegel describes reflection as digestion and digestion as the "organism's reflection into itself ": its "uniting of itself with itself " (PN 395).KeywordsOuter WorldGerm TheoryGerman IdealismIntroductory LectureTime IllnessThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves
Consciousness · Dialectic · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Mirroring · Psychoanalysis · Communication · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |