Event overview
Two of the most original contemporary scholars of Hegel discuss the relation between the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Science of Logic
In The Dash鈥擳he Other Side of Absolute Knowing (MIT Press, 2018), Rebecca Comay and Frank Ruda present a reading of Hegel鈥檚 most reviled concept, absolute knowing. Their book sets out from a counterintuitive premise: the 鈥渕ystical shell鈥� of Hegel鈥檚 system proves to be its most 鈥渞ational kernel.鈥� Hegel鈥檚 radicalism is located precisely at the point where his thought seems to regress most. Most current readings try to update Hegel鈥檚 thought by pruning back his grandiose claims to 鈥渁bsolute knowing.鈥� Comay and Ruda invert this deflationary gesture by inflating what seems to be most trivial: the truth of the absolute is grasped only in the minutiae of its most mundane appearances. What if everything turns out to hinge on the most inconspicuous and trivial detail鈥攁 punctuation mark?
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 25 May 2019 | 10:00am - 1:00pm |
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