Hegel in Jena: Dialectics of Time
The general understanding that Hegel dealt with the problem of the dialectic of time in the Jena period only in the "Sense-Certainty" chapter of the Phenomenology of Spirit has taken on a new dimension in the last century with the publication of manuscripts from the middle Jena period. In...
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Istanbul University Press
2024-12-01
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| Series: | Felsefe Arkivi |
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| Online Access: | https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/7E99BA4FDEBC4B73AD0392CBA5AD1B87 |
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| Summary: | The general understanding that Hegel dealt with the problem of the dialectic of time in the Jena period only in the "Sense-Certainty" chapter of the Phenomenology of Spirit has taken on a new dimension in the last century with the publication of manuscripts from the middle Jena period. In the so called "Jena System-Drafts" (1804-1805/1805-1806), Hegel develops a comprehensive dialectic on the three dimensions of natural time. In this study, Christophe Bouton analyzes how the finite dialectic produced by the moments of the abstract time of nature is overcome through Hegel’s logical concept the true and spurious infinity. According to Bouton, the drafts of the middle Jena period not only shed light on the process of Hegel’s intellectual development, but also ground the relation between the time of nature and history as the time of the Spirit, which Hegel will elaborate in greater detail in the Berlin period. In this context, unlike commentators such as Heidegger, Koyré and Bloch, Bouton rejects the thesis of the primacy of the past or the future in the Hegelian understanding of time. According to Bouton, time finds its meaning not in the past, which is an isolated moment from the other dimensions of time, but in the concrete present, which contains the three temporal dimensions in itself. Bouton examines then the aporia created by time and events subjected to time, as well as the relationship between eternity and the concrete present in the light of the lectures of the Jena and Berlin periods. |
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| ISSN: | 2667-7644 |