The Hegel Variations: On the Phenomenology of the Spirit

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The Hegel Variations: On the Phenomenology of the Spirit
By Fredric Jameson


  

Publisher:  Verso
Number Of Pages:  144
Publication Date:  2010-07-02
ISBN-10 / ASIN:  1844676161
ISBN-13 / EAN:  9781844676163


Product Description:

The master philosopher and cultural theorist tackles the founder of modern dialectics. In this major new study, the philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers a new reading of Hegel’s foundational text Phenomenology of Spirit.

In contrast to those who see the Phenomenology as a closed system ending with Absolute Spirit, Jameson’s reading presents an open work in which Hegel has not yet reconstituted himself in terms of a systematic philosophy (Hegelianism) and in which the moments of the dialectic and its levels have not yet been formalized. Hegel’s text executes a dazzling variety of changes on conceptual relationships, in terms with are never allowed to freeze over and become reified in purely philosophical named concepts. The ending, on the aftermath of the French Revolution, is interpreted by Jameson, contra Fukuyama’s “end of history,” as a provisional stalemate between the political and the social, which is here extrapolated to our own time.




Summary: Short and Sweet
Rating: 5

This book combines some very interesting insights and claims about the Phenomenology of Spirit with a short, lucid format - lucid if one is used to Jameson's long, sometimes baroque constructions. Despite its accessible length, the book can at times presuppose a surprising amount of familiarity with Hegel's book and the literature on it. Other times, however, Jameson slowly introduces a commentator, key claims, vocabulary, etc. in ways that are very accessible. As a result, in many ways it is an uneven read when it comes to accessibility. Those familiar with Hegel and such commentators as Kojeve will find it pleasantly breezy, with every few pages providing a very rich nugget of food for thought on many fronts philosophical, cultural, historical, political, and of course, scholarly. If one is already familiar with Hegel, I would highly recommend this quick read for its interesting insights into a Hegel who does not believe in teleology - in an ultimate moment of history, but rather one committed to the dynamism of human rationality, as each failed attempt of common sense and its derivatives struggles to rebound. In many ways, Jameson seems to argue that it is this struggle to rebound, not some ultimately derivative form of common sense (which Jameson identifies with Verstand), that constitutes Absolute Knowing.

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