Hegel

Martin Heidegger, Niels Feuerhahn, Joseph Arel

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Martin Heidegger's writings on Hegel are notoriously difficult but show an essential engagement between two of the foundational thinkers of phenomenology. Joseph Arel and Niels Feuerhahn provide a clear and careful translation of Volume 68 of the Complete Works, which is comprised of two shorter texts—a treatise on negativity, and a penetrating reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. In this volume, Heidegger relates his interpretation of Hegel to his own thought on the event, taking up themes developed in Contributions to Philosophy. While many parts of the text are fragmentary in nature, these interpretations are considered some of the most significant as they bring Hegel into Heidegger's philosophical trajectory.

Translators' Introduction

NEGATIVITY. A CONFRONTATION WITH HEGEL APPROACHED FROM NEGATIVITY (1938/39, 1941)

I. Negativity. Nothing – abyss – beyng
II. The realm of inquiry of negativity
III. The differentiation of being and beings
IV. Clearing – Abyss – Nothing
V. Hegel
Appendix
Supplement to the title page
Supplement to section 1

ELUCIDATION OF THE "INTRODUCTION" TO HEGEL'S "PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT"
(1942)

Preliminary consideration. On the various roles and positions of the Phenomenology
of Spirit within Hegel's metaphysics

I. The grounding of the enactment of the presentation of appearing knowledge
(paragraphs 1-4 of the "Introduction")

II. The self-presentation of appearing knowledge as the course into the truth of its own
essence (paragraphs 5-8 of the "Introduction")

III. The criterion of the examination and the essence of the examination in the course
of appearing knowledge (paragraphs 9-13 of the "Introduction")

IV. The essence of the experience of consciousness and its presentation
(paragraphs 14-15 of the "Introduction")

V. Absolute metaphysics (sketches for paragraph 16 of the "Introduction")

Appendix. Supplements to I-IV (paragraph 1-15 of the "Introduction")

Editor's Afterword

German-English Glossary
English-German Glossary

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Épistémologie
• Philosophie de l'esprit
• Philosophie de la psychologie
• Movements
• PHILOSOPHY
• Philosophie et théologie
• Phenomenology
• Continental
• Social

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• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 31 août 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 10
• EAN13: 9780253017789
• Langue: English

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Hegel
Studies in Continental Thought
EDITOR
JOHN SALLIS
CONSULTING EDITORS
Robert Bernasconi
John D. Caputo
David Carr
Edward S. Casey
David Farrell Krell
Lenore Langsdorf
James Risser
Dennis J. Schmidt
Calvin O. Schrag
Charles E. Scott
Daniela Vallega-Neu
David Wood
Martin Heidegger
Hegel
1. NEGATIVITY. A CONFRONTATION WITH HEGEL APPROACHED FROM NEGATIVITY (1938-39, 1941)
2. ELUCIDATION OF THE INTRODUCTION TO HEGEL S PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT (1942)
Translated by
Joseph Arel and Niels Feuerhahn
Indiana University Press
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Published in German as Martin Heidegger Gesamtausgabe 68: Hegel: 1. Die Negativit t. Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Hegel aus dem Ansatz in der Negativit t (1938/39, 1941); 2. Erl uterung der Einleitung zu Hegels Ph nomenologie des Geistes (1942) , ed. Ingrid Sch ler
2009 by Vittorio Klostermann GmbH, Frankfurt am Main
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
[Works. Selections English]
Hegel / Martin Heidegger ; translated by Joseph Arel and Niels Feuerhahn.
pages cm. - (Studies in continental thought)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-253-01757-4 (hardback : alk. paper) - ISBN 978-0-253-01778-9 (ebook) 1. Negativity (Philosophy) 2. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. Ph nomenologie des Geistes. I. Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. Negativit t. English. II. Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. Erl uterung der Einleitung zu Hegels Ph nomenologie des Geistes. English. III. Title.
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CONTENTS
Translators Introduction
NEGATIVITY. A CONFRONTATION WITH HEGEL APPROACHED FROM NEGATIVITY (1938-39, 1941)
I.
Negativity. Nothing-abyss-beyng
1. On Hegel
(1) Clarification of a concern regarding the value of such a confrontation
(2) Specification of the conceptual language that comes into play in the confrontation
(3) Preliminary characterization of the standpoint and principle of Hegel s philosophy
2. At a glance
3. Becoming
4. Negativity and the nothing
5. Negativity and being-other [ Anderssein ]
6. Negativity and otherness [ Andersheit ]
7. Negativity-difference of consciousness-subject-object relationship and essence of truth
8. Hegel s concept of being
9. Hegel s absolute negativity interrogated directly about its origin
10. Hegel s negativity
11. Review
12. Negativity
13. The differentiation (separation)
14. The negative
15. Being and the nothing
16. Hegel s concept of being in the narrow sense ( horizon and guiding thread )
17. The standpoint of Hegelian philosophy is the standpoint of absolute idealism
18. The (thoughtful) pre-suppositions of Hegelian thinking
19. The pre-suppositions of Hegelian thinking of being in the narrow and broad sense
20. Review
21. The historical confrontation and the regress to presuppositions
II.
The realm of inquiry of negativity
1. On the conceptual language
2. Negativity
3. Review
III.
The differentiation of being and beings
1. Differentiation as de-cision
2. The differentiation of being and beings
IV.
Clearing-Abyss-Nothing
1. The clearing (beyng)
2. Being: the a-byss
3. Beyng and nothing
4. A-byss and nothing and no
5. Beyng and nothing
6. Negativity
7. The nothing
V.
Hegel
1. Essential considerations concerning the conceptual language
2. Hegel
3. Becoming
4. The pure thinking of thinking
5. The higher standpoint
6. Hegel s impact
7. Metaphysics
8. On Hegel
9. The logical beginning ( pure being )
Appendix
Supplement to the title page
Supplement to I, section 1 (p.3)
ELUCIDATION OF THE INTRODUCTION TO HEGEL S PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT (1942)
Preliminary consideration. On the varied role and position of the Phenomenology of Spirit within Hegel s metaphysics
I.
The grounding of the enactment of the presentation of appearing knowledge (paragraphs 1-4 of the Introduction )
II.
The self-presentation of appearing knowledge as the course into the truth of its own essence (paragraphs 5-8 of the Introduction )
III.
The criterion of the examination and the essence of the examination in the course of appearing knowledge (paragraphs 9-13 of the Introduction )
1. The criterion-forming consciousness and the dialectical movement of the examination
2. Review of the previous discussion (I-III)
3. The experience [ Er-fahren ] of consciousness
IV.
The essence of the experience of consciousness and its presentation (paragraphs 14-15 of the Introduction )
1. Hegel s ontological concept of experience
2. Guiding propositions to Hegel s concept of experience
V.
Absolute metaphysics (sketches for paragraph 16 of the Introduction )
1. Essential considerations. Objectness and science
2. At a glance 1
3. The ray of the absolute. At a glance 2
4. The phenomenology of spirit
5. The movement
6. The by-play [ Bei-her-spielen ]
7. The examination
8. The onto-theological character
9. The reversal
10. The Germans and metaphysics
11. The absolute and man
12. Reflection-counter push-reversal
13. Projection and reversal
14. Experiences as transcendental experiences
15. The metaphysics of Schelling and Hegel
16. Phenomenology and absoluteness
17. Confrontation with Hegel
18. Hegel (Conclusion)
Appendix. Supplements to I-IV (paragraphs 1-15 of the Introduction )
1. Dialectic
2. Our contribution [ Zu-tat ]
3. The reversal-properly speaking four essential moments
4. The experience as the essential midpoint of consciousness
Editor s Afterword
Translators Notes
German-English Glossary
English-German Glossary
Translators Introduction
This is a translation of Martin Heidegger s Hegel , which was originally published in German as volume 68 of Heidegger s Gesamtausgabe in 1993. This volume comprises two different works: The first, shorter part of the volume has the original title of Die Negativit t. Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Hegel aus dem Ansatz in der Negativit t (1938-39, 1941) . The second part bears the title Erl uterung der Einleitung zu Hegels Ph nomenologie des Geistes (1942) . Though the text, especially the first part, is fragmentary and much less polished than many of his other texts, Heidegger seems to have considered it especially important. As the editor of the German original notes, it was Heidegger himself who grouped the two treatises together and assigned them to a special volume on Hegel. It was also Heidegger himself who assigned both treatises to the third division of the Gesamtausgabe . At the time of its publication it was the second volume to come out under the third division of the Gesamtausgabe : Unpublished Treatises: Addresses-Ponderings. The first volume to appear under this division was Beitr ge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis) , whose first edition was published in 1989.
In addition to giving some priority to these texts in the organization of his works, Heidegger also explains Hegel s importance quite explicitly. Early on in the first part, he writes, The singularity of Hegel s philosophy consists primarily in the fact that there is no longer a higher standpoint of self-consciousness of spirit beyond it. Thus any future, still higher standpoint over against it, which would be superordinate to Hegel s system-in the manner by which Hegel s philosophy for its part and in accord with its point of view had to subordinate every previous philosophy-is once and for all impossible (p.3). Though Heidegger s writing and lectures on Hegel, as well as on the German Idealism of Fichte and Schelling, increased significantly during the period in which this volume takes place, his insistence on Hegel s importance is not new. Many years earlier, in 1915, Heidegger writes that Hegel s philosophy contains the system of a historical worldview which is most powerful with regard to its fullness, its depth, its conceptuality, and the richness of its experiences, and which as such has removed and surpassed all preceding fundamental philosophical problems. It is the task of philosophy, he continues, to confront Hegel. 1
Heidegger engages in two such confrontations in the present volume, though this was not his first and would not be his last. In section 82 of Being and Time , 2 some twelve years after Heidegger claimed that such a confrontation was needed, he addresses Hegel with respect to the relationship between time and spirit. Hegel is one of the philosophers whom Heidegger confronted repeatedly and extensively throughout his life. Heidegger taught a seminar on Hegel s Logic as early as 1925-26. In the summer of 1929 he gave a lecture course on German Idealism at the University of Freiburg in which he devoted himself to the philosophies of Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, although Fichte figures most prominently in the course. The lecture course was published as Der deutsche Idealismus (Fichte, Schelling, Hegel) und die philosophische Problemlage der Gegenwart (GA28) in 1997. The lecture course was accompanied by a seminar devoted to the Preface of Hegel s Phenom