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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786808603321

Autore

Lumsden Simon

Titolo

Self-consciousness and the critique of the subject : Hegel, Heidegger, and the poststructuralists / / Simon Lumsden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Chichester, England : , : Columbia University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-231-53820-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

126.09

Soggetti

Self (Philosophy)

Self-consciousness (Awareness)

Idealism, German

Poststructuralism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Metaphysics of Presence and the Worldless Subject -- 2. Fichte's Striving Subject -- 3. Hegel -- 4. Heidegger, Care, and Selfhood -- 5. Derrida and the Question of Subjectivity -- 6. The Dialectic and Transcendental Empiricism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Poststructuralists hold Hegel responsible for giving rise to many of modern philosophy's problematic concepts-the authority of reason, self-consciousness, the knowing subject. Yet, according to Simon Lumsden, this animosity is rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of Hegel's thought, and resolving this tension can not only heal the rift between poststructuralism and German idealism but also point these traditions in exciting new directions. Revisiting the philosopher's key texts, Lumsden calls attention to Hegel's reformulation of liberal and Cartesian conceptions of subjectivity, identifying a critical though unrecognized continuity between poststructuralism and German idealism. Poststructuralism forged its identity in opposition to idealist subjectivity; however, Lumsden argues this model is not found in Hegel's texts but in an uncritical acceptance of Heidegger's



characterization of Hegel and Fichte as "metaphysicians of subjectivity." Recasting Hegel as both post-Kantian and postmetaphysical, Lumsden sheds new light on this complex philosopher while revealing the surprising affinities between two supposedly antithetical modes of thought.