Metaphysics to metafictions: Hegel, Nietzsche, and the end of philosophy

492 Pages·1998·1.48 MB·English

by  Paul S. Miklowitz

Metaphysics to Metafictions : Hegel,
title: Nietzsche, and the End of Philosophy
SUNY Series in Hegelian Studies
author: Miklowitz, Paul S.
publisher: State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin: 0791438783
print isbn13: 9780791438787
ebook isbn13: 9780585075495
language: English
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,--1770-
subject 1831, Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,--1844-
1900, Metaphysics--History.
publication date: 1998
lcc: B2948.M48 1998eb
ddc: 193
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,--1770-
subject:
1831, Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,--1844-
1900, Metaphysics--History.
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Metaphysics to Metafictions
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Dave Carnie, Hegel's Chairs (1992), photograph and mixed media, 24" × 30".
Collection of the author.
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Metaphysics to Metafictions
Hegel, Nietzsche, and the End of Philosophy
Paul S. Miklowitz
State University
of New York
Press
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SUNY Series in Hegelian Studies
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Cover photo used with permission of the photographer, Dave Carnie.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Miklowitz, Paul S.
Metaphysics to metafictions : Hegel, Nitzsche, and the end of
philosophy / by Paul S. Miklowitz.
p. cm. (SUNY series in Hegelian studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7914-3877-5 (hc: alk. paper). ISBN 0-7914-3878-3 (pb)
1. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 17701831. 2. Nietzsche,
Friedrich Wilhelm, 18441900. 3. MetaphysicsHistory. I. Title.
II. Series.
B2948.M48 1998
193-dc2l 97-35112
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Citation Conventions xi
Preface xiii
Introduction 1
Chapter One. Language and Truth: The Aufhebung of 9
Immediacy
Part I: Sense-Certainty and Expression 10
1. Deferral of the Vorrede and the "immediate" 10
beginning
2. Critiques of object-and subject-centered 13
philosophical starting points
3. The "divine nature of language": Mystery and 17
equivocation
Part II: On Reading Sense-Certainty 20
1. The Immediacy demanded by the Logic 20
2. "Sensualism" versus the always already linguistic 24
Chapter Two. Self and Other: The Mastery of Mediation 33
Part I: Self-Certainty and Mediation 34
1. The place of "Lordship and Bondage" in the 34
structure of the Phenomenology
2. The dialectic of Desire: Self as relation 37
3. The dialectic of Lordship and Bondage proper 43
4. Turning the tables on the lord and recuperating the 47
bondsman
Part II: The Scrutiny of Self-Certainty: Further 51
Mediations
1. The fragment on "Love"; commentary by Freud, 51
Solomon, and McTaggart
2. Two critical themes: The primacy of thinghood; 55
self-knowledge is self-creation
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Chapter Three. Absolute Knowing: The End of 61
Philosophy
Part I: The Absolute from Beginning to End 62
1. Stoicism and Skepticism as retreats into thought 62
2. The internalized duplicity of unhappy 66
consciousness
3. Toward the Begriff, the form of absolute synthesis 68
4. The structure of absolute knowing 71
Part II: Re-Reading the Absolute: A New Beginning 78
1. The Hegelian fundamentalism of Kojève 80
2. The materialist critique of Marx 83
Chapter Four. Anticipatory Repetition: Heterodox 87
Spirituality and Hegel's Philosophical Eschatology
1. Hegel and Joachim: A fateful syzygy (Löwith) 90
2. Narrativity and Repetition: A textual resurrection 93
(O'Regan and Murray)
3. Conclusory transition 100
Chapter Five. Eternal Return: Re-Telling the End 105
Part I: After the End of Philosophy: The Perspective of 108
an Aesthetic Attitude
1. Nietzsche contra Hegel 108
2. Regression to Vorstellungen: The pervasiveness of 111
metaphor