KAPKI are pleased to announce their first meeting for 2009 where Diego Bubbio will be delivering a paper (abstract below) entitled 'Sacrifice in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit'. The meeting will be Wednesday March 11th at 5pm in the philosophy common room. All welcome.
Sacrifice in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit In this paper I apply the post-Kantian revisionist interpretation of Hegel, and specifically the recognition-theoretic approach, to the notion of sacrifice in the Phenomenology of Spirit. Firstly, I conduct a preliminary analysis by examining the general meaning of sacrifice as a form of determinate negation. Secondly, I focus on two phenomenological moments (the struggle between "faith" and "pure insight", and the cult) in order to answer the question, "Is an authentic (effective and unselfish) sacrifice possible?" Finally, I argue that sacrifice should be considered as a Darstellung, and I explain the twofold connection between sacrifice and recognition. I conclude that there is no sacrifice without recognition, and the process of sacrifice is intrinsically sacrificial.
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