Dear All, Prof. Andrew Benjamin (Monash University) will be delivering a talk for the Workgroup on Hegel and Recognition at Macquarie University.
Date: Tuesday September 28, 2-4pm, W6A building, room 707 Title: Hegel’s Other Woman The Figure of Niobe in Hegel’s Lectures on Fine art. Abstract: In a work written in 1789 of which only a few fragmentary pages still exist, a fragment now known as "Love", Hegel wrote that: ‘A pure heart (Ein reines Gemüt) is not ashamed of love; but it is ashamed if its love is incomplete'. Thereby allowing for the two following questions to be posed: Of whom can it be said that they have ‘a pure heart' and secondly: Whose continuity is defined by the enduring mark of shame? The question of ‘the pure heart’, as will be suggested, cannot be disassociated from a concern with Niobe. Moreover, her name is that which will have been given, from the outside, as an answer to the second question. In enduring as inherently incomplete Niobe is presented at the end of assimilation. Hence, not as the other tourt court but the other who, in standing in stone on the outside, complicates assimilation by standing beyond her automatic incorporation as recognized. As such she becomes an exemplary instance of the ethical. The aim of this paper will be trace the philosophical consequences of the positioning of Niobe within Hegel's text and within aspects of Greek literature. All Welcome! -- Dr Robert Sinnerbrink Lecturer, Department of Philosophy Building W6A, Balaclava Rd Macquarie University North Ryde NSW 2109 Sydney, Australia email: [email protected] Tel: +612 9850 9935 Fax: +612 9850 8892 www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/sinnerbrink.htm http://mq.academia.edu/RobertSinnerbrink Chair, Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy http://www.ascp.org.au/
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