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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'

Hegel, Phenomenology, Lordship & Bondage « Previous | |Next »
July 27, 2005

I haven't able to access J.M. Bernstein's seminar on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit these last few days. The site has been down. Then my server was down.

With Seminar 4 we have shifted from consciousness to self-consciousness. This seminar is a long way from those who continue to mis-read Hegel in terms of being a Platonist logicist metaphysics that denies the existence of individual things; Hegel's metaphysics really being about God; and the metaphysics is the foundation of modern statism and totalitarianism.

We jump straight in once again to soemthignh that has been going on for a while. It takes a while to pick up what is going on, and to figure out which bit of the text we are working from, and how Bernstein is reading this well-known passage.

Hegel says:

'SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS exists in itself and for itself, in that, and by the fact that it exists for another self-consciousness; that is to say, it is only by being acknowledged or "recognized"'...Self-consciousness has before it another self-consciousness; it has come outside itself. This has a double significance. First it has lost its own self, since it finds itself as an other being; secondly, it has thereby sublated that other, for it does not regard the other as essentially real, but sees its own self in the other.' (para 178-9)

This is the world of natural desire, repression, transforming the given though activity (work), the desire for recognition,negativity and death within dynamic social relationships. It is in this section that we need to become aware of our ways of reading Hegel.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 1:45 PM | | Comments (0)
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