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Subject: [hegel] A Crites paragraph on PhS
From: "R Srivatsan r.srivats@... [hegel]" <hegel@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sat, December 22, 2018 7:35 pm
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Here's a remarkably insightful and deeply significant excerpt from Crites own speculative take on the Phenomenology

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We may lament the fact that the system Hegel had in view in that Preface never got written, but the further question arises whether Hegel was able to compose a system on these terms.  If there was in the Jena systematic manuscripts the ambivalence we have suggested between an experience-negating and experience-appropriating conception of the system, it may well be that the firm commitment to the experience-appropriating type expressed in that Preface was a commitment he found impossible to execute.  In that case Napoleon's intervention may have been timely,  sparing Hegel the embarrassment of the inability to follow through on his announced conception of science.  It is possible, indeed, that the science of phenomenology is inimical to any sort of putatively final systematization: that Hegel's Phenomenology is an alternative to the system, implying quite a different conception both of spirit and of a science of spirit.  In that case Hegel's actual accomplishment in the Phenomenology will have a significance quite different from what he intended for it when he wrote it as a propaedeutic to the system.  Such a divergence between intention and actual accomplishment is, after all, a characteristic of Hegelian irony, particularly if the accomplishment should turn out to be more significant than the intention that informed it.

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It goes beyond modern totalizing thinking, and beyond postmodernism to boot, adhering faithfully to Hegel's own concept.

Srivats

 

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