Reading Group in the scope of Praxis-CFUL activities
Working language: English
Organizer: Silvia Locatelli (locatelli.silvia.96 [at] gmail.com)
When: Tuesdays from 14h-16h, according to the calendar below
Where: Sala Pedro Hispano (Department of Philosophy)* (to be confirmed)
Description
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (Phänomenologie des Geistes) represents one of the main texts for getting in touch with Hegelian systematic thought. Through the integral reading of the text, in this Reading Group an attempt will be made to understand how action and knowledge on the part of consciousness (or Spirit) develop in the course of the search for truth (of oneself and of the world). In this way, in the Phenomenology Hegel posits not only a reflection on knowledge, but also on the relationship with otherness and the active action of consciousness to reach its fulfillment.
Within the Praxis research group, the reading of this text will ensure a deeper understanding of the formation of the subject as a conscious and willing being, which begins to be possible with the figure of Antigone, who puts an end to the ethicality of the Greek state. This 2º Semester (2022/23) will be devoted to the first half of the book.
The edition to be consulted will be Terry Pinkard’s recent translation:
Hegel, Georg W.F. (2018). The Phenomenology of the Spirit. Trans. and ed. by Terry Pinkard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Program
Session 1 | 14 February 2023
Preface (pp. 3-46)
Session 2 | 7 March 2023
Introduction (pp. 49-59)
Session 3 | 14 March 2023
A. Consciousness (I-II) (pp. 60-79)
Session 4 | 28 March 2023
A. Consciousness (III) (pp. 79-101)
Session 5 | 18 April
B. Self-Consciousness (IV.A.) (pp. 102-116)
Session 6 | 2 May 2023
B. Self-Consciousness (IV.B.) (pp. 117-135)
Session 7 | 9 May 2023
C. (AA) Reason (V. A. a) (pp. 136-174)
Session 8 | 16 May 2023
C. (AA) Reason (V. A. b & c) (pp. 174-203)
Session 9 | 23 May 2023
C. (AA). Reason (V. B.) (pp. 203-226)
Session 10 | 30 May 2023
C. (AA) Reason (V. C.) (pp. 252)