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Hegel on Self-ConSCiouSneSS PRINCETON MONOGRAPHS IN PHILOSOPHY Harry G. Frankfurt, Series Editor The Princeton Monographs in Philosophy series offers short historical and systematic studies on a wide variety of philosophical topics. Justice Is Conflict by Stuart Hampshire Liberty Worth the Name: Locke on Free Agency by Gideon Yaffe Self-Deception Unmasked by Alfred R. Mele Public Goods, Private Goods by Raymond Geuss Welfare and Rational Care by Stephen Darwall A Defense of Hume on Miracles by Robert J. Fogelin Kierkegaard’s Concept of Despair by Michael Theunissen Physicalism, or Something Near Enough by Jaegwon Kim Philosophical Myths of the Fall by Stephen Mulhall Fixing Frege by John P. Burgess Kant and Skepticism by Michael N. Forster Thinking of Others: On the Talent for Metaphor by Ted Cohen The Apologetics of Evil: The Case of Iago by Richard Raatzsch Social Conventions: From Language to Law by Andrei Marmor Taking Wittgenstein at His Word: A Textual Study by Robert J. Fogelin The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel’s Social Theory by Axel Honneth Michael Oakeshott’s Skepticism by Aryeh Botwinick Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit by Robert B. Pippin Hegel on Self-ConSCiouSneSS Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit Robert B. Pippin princeton university press princeton and oxford Copyright © 2011 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TW All Rights Reserved ISBN 978-0-691-14851-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2010935118 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available This book has been composed in Janson Printed on acid-free paper. ∞ press.princeton.edu Printed in the United States of America 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Contents Acknowledgments vii Introductory Remarks 1 Chapter One On Hegel’s Claim That Self-Consciousness Is “Desire Itself” (Begierde überhaupt) 6 Chapter Two On Hegel’s Claim That “Self-Consciousness Finds Its Satisfaction Only in Another Self-Consciousness” 54 Concluding Remarks 88 Index 99 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments The following is an expanded and revised version of the Spinoza Lectures given at the University of Amsterdam in April and May of 2009. The idea was to combine an inter- pretation of what I and many others regard as the most important chapter in all of Hegel—the fourth chapter of the Phenomenology of Spirit—with an essay about the philosophi- cal significance of Hegel’s ideas. I am most grateful to the philosophy department at the University of Amsterdam for the opportunity to present these lectures and especially for the opportunity to live and teach in one of the world’s most cultivated, interesting, and beautiful cities. For many small and large favors during my stay, I am especially indebted to the chair of the department Josef Früchtl, to my friend Beate Rössler, to Yolanda Ver- beek for her kind and efficient attention to so many of the details of our visit, and to Marijke de Wit for her help with the administration of the masters seminar that I taught on Hegel’s phenomenology of self-consciousness. I began to discuss this interpretation of Hegel’s theory of self-consciousness at a special symposium hosted by Col- gate University in November 2008 (the Kokonas Sympo- sium) and I am grateful to the philosophy department there viii acknowledgments for the invitation and for the many lively and illuminating discussions with members of the department and with stu- dents, and to my co-symposiasts, John McDowell and Rob- ert Brandom, for their reaction and comments there and for their work in general, which I have always found inspiring. John McDowell’s comments and correspondence after the event were especially beneficial in helping me clarify his (and my) understanding of this sometimes baffling, often profound, and clearly pivotal chapter in Hegel’s work. Hegel on Self-ConSCiouSneSS
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