What does thinking mean for Hegel? What is the relation between thought and the I and between thought and reality? In Thinking and the I. Hegel and the Critique of Kant, Alfredo Ferrarin seeks an answer to these questions. Hegel's dialectic entails a radical criticism of the ordinary conception of thinking. Ferrarin shows that, according to Hegel, thought, negation, truth, reflection, and dialectic are not the conscious subjective activity of an I. Thought is instead objective in different senses. Reality as a whole is animated by a movement of thought and an unconscious logic as a spontaneity that reifies itself in determinate forms. What Hegel calls representation is one of the ways in which thought embodies and objectivizes itself in a habitual second nature wherein it can move at ease. Ethical institutions, the logic of language, Hegel’s critique of the traditional form of judgment, and the speculative sentence are among the best illustrations of this dialectic of thought. The book concludes with a comprehensive comparison of Hegel’s and Kant’s concepts of reason as self-critique and the relation between reason and the I, reason and history, and reason and its ends.
Thinking and the I. Hegel and the Critique of Kant
ferrarin alfredo
2019
Abstract
What does thinking mean for Hegel? What is the relation between thought and the I and between thought and reality? In Thinking and the I. Hegel and the Critique of Kant, Alfredo Ferrarin seeks an answer to these questions. Hegel's dialectic entails a radical criticism of the ordinary conception of thinking. Ferrarin shows that, according to Hegel, thought, negation, truth, reflection, and dialectic are not the conscious subjective activity of an I. Thought is instead objective in different senses. Reality as a whole is animated by a movement of thought and an unconscious logic as a spontaneity that reifies itself in determinate forms. What Hegel calls representation is one of the ways in which thought embodies and objectivizes itself in a habitual second nature wherein it can move at ease. Ethical institutions, the logic of language, Hegel’s critique of the traditional form of judgment, and the speculative sentence are among the best illustrations of this dialectic of thought. The book concludes with a comprehensive comparison of Hegel’s and Kant’s concepts of reason as self-critique and the relation between reason and the I, reason and history, and reason and its ends.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
