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Hegel's Questionable Legacy

Hegel's Questionable Legacy HEGEL’S QUESTIONABLE LEGACY by DANIEL DAHLSTROM Boston University A BSTRACT This paper suggests that Hegel’s legacy is precisely the questionability of any attempt to put it in question. Derrida’s acknowledgment of di V érance’s “absolute proximity” to Hegel’s notion of Aufhebung is an admission of this di Y culty and an insistence, never- theless, on disestablishing Hegel’s thinking. Part one reviews four Hegelian legacies, summed up in the notion of Aufhebung : a suspicion of immediacy, a presumption of the fully mediated character of reality, a decentering of subjectivity by way of recov- ering nature and society, and Ž nally, an endorsement of the absolute power of nega- tion. Part two brie y recounts how Derrida manages, nevertheless, to deconstruct Hegel’s legacy. However, the paper concludes that, since deconstruction and di V érance also call for the humility of deferring to a non-deferral of meaning, the questionabil- ity of putting Hegelian legacy in question remains its legacy. From ‘ legatus ’ and ‘ legare ’, the English term ‘legacy’ once signiŽ ed the function of representing some authority or, more often, the message or group sent to do so, a signiŽ cance that survives in the uses of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Research in Phenomenology Brill

Hegel's Questionable Legacy

Dahlstrom, Daniel
Research in Phenomenology , Volume 32 (1): 3 – Jan 1, 2002
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HEGEL’S QUESTIONABLE LEGACY by DANIEL DAHLSTROM Boston University A BSTRACT This paper suggests that Hegel’s legacy is precisely the questionability of any attempt to put it in question. Derrida’s acknowledgment of di V érance’s “absolute proximity” to Hegel’s notion of Aufhebung is an admission of this di Y culty and an insistence, never- theless, on disestablishing Hegel’s thinking. Part one reviews four Hegelian legacies, summed up in the notion of Aufhebung : a suspicion of immediacy, a presumption of the fully mediated character of reality, a decentering of subjectivity by way of recov- ering nature and society, and Ž nally, an endorsement of the absolute power of nega- tion. Part two brie y recounts how Derrida manages, nevertheless, to deconstruct Hegel’s legacy. However, the paper concludes that, since deconstruction and di V érance also call for the humility of deferring to a non-deferral of meaning, the questionabil- ity of putting Hegelian legacy in question remains its legacy. From ‘ legatus ’ and ‘ legare ’, the English term ‘legacy’ once signiŽ ed the function of representing some authority or, more often, the message or group sent to do so, a signiŽ cance that survives in the uses of

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