The Self and its Body in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (Toronto Studies in Philosophy)

216 Pages·2001·2.88 MB·English

by  John Russon

T H E S E L F A N D I T S B O D Y IN
HEGEL'S PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT
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JOHN RUSSON
The Self and Its Body in
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Toronto Buffalo London
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Toronto Studies in Philosophy
Editors: James R. Brown and Calvin Normore
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Russon, John Edward, 1960-
The self and its body in Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit
(Toronto studies in philosophy)
ISBN 0-8020-0919-0
I. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. Phanomenologie
des Geistes. 2. Body, Human (Philosophy). I. Title.
II. Series.
B2929.R87 1997 193 C97-930066-5
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publishing program of the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council.
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Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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Hekaton, and Apollonios of Tyre in Book I of About Zeno, say that when he con-
sulted the oracle about what he should do to live the best way, the god answered
that he would live the best way if he would mix his flesh with corpses [sugchrotizoito
tois nekrois], from which he understood that he should read the works of the
ancients [ta ton archaion anaginoskein}.
Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, vn.l
It is necessary to insist upon this idea of culture-in-action, of culture growing
within us like a new organ [un nouvel organe] ...
Antonin Artaud, Le theatre et son double
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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Kill
A NOTE ON THE TEXT XV
Introduction: The Project of Reading Hegel's Phenomenology of
the Body 3
SECTION A: SELF-CONSCIOUS SELFHOOD
Chapter 1: Unhappy Consciousness and the Logic of Self-Conscious
Selfhood 15
Introduction 15
1. Stoicism 16
2. Scepticism 18
3. Unhappy Consciousness 22
Conclusion 28
Chapter 2: Reason and Dualism: The Category as the Immediacy of
Unconditioned Self-Communion 30
Introduction 30
1. Reason in General 32
2. Reason and Observation 34
3. Reason and Action 40
4. Reason and Responsibility 44
Conclusion 48