Hegel's Energy

A Reading of the Phenomenology of Spirit

Michael Marder (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2021
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4339-5 (ISBN)

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Hegel’s The Phenomenology of Spirit has been one of the most important works of philosophy since the nineteenth century, while the question of energy has been crucial to life in the twenty-first century. In this book, Michael Marder integrates the two, narrating a story about the trials and tribulations of energy embedded in Hegel’s dialectics. Through an original interpretation of actuality (Wirklichkeit) as energy in the Hegelian corpus, the book provides an exciting lens for understanding the dialectical project and the energy-starved condition of our contemporaneity. To elaborate this theory, Marder undertakes a meticulous rereading of major parts of the Phenomenology, where the energy deficit of mere consciousness gives way to the energy surplus of self-consciousness and its self-delimitation in the domain of reason. In so doing, he denounces the current understanding of energy as pure potentiality, linking this mindset to pollution, profit-driven economies, and environmental crises. Surprising and deeply engaged with its contemporary implications, this book doesn’t simply illuminate aspects of The Phenomenology of Spirit — it provides an entirely new understanding of Hegel’s ideas.

Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz. He is the author of fourteen books, including Heidegger: Phenomenology, Ecology, Politics; Energy Dreams: Of Actuality; and, with Luce Irigaray, Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives.

Preface
Part I. Prolegomena to the Dialectics of Energy
Part II. The Phenomenology of Spirit & the Question of Energy: An Exegesis
Introduction: The Energy of Cognition
A. “Mere” Consciousness and Its Energy Deficit
1. Sense-certainty: “this is,” “I am”… but all “this” “is” not energy
2. Perception: the non-actual reality of seeing without seeing oneself see
3. Force and understanding: literally crystal-clear and unburdened by the energy of thinking
B. Self-consciousness and Its Surplus Energy
4. The truth of self-certainty: beyond the living energy of life
C. Reason and the Self-Limitation of Energy
5. The certainty and truth of reason: reality rediscovered
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.06.2021
Reihe/Serie	Diaeresis
Zusatzinfo	11 black & white figures
Verlagsort	Evanston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 226 mm
Gewicht	385 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	0-8101-4339-9 / 0810143399
ISBN-13	978-0-8101-4339-5 / 9780810143395
Zustand	Neuware