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Author Lumsden, Simon, author.

Title Self-consciousness and the critique of the subject : Hegel, Heidegger, and the poststructuralists / Simon Lumsden
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 265 pages)
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Metaphysics of Presence and the Worldless Subject: Heidegger's Critique of Modern Philosophy -- 2. Fichte's Striving Subject -- 3. Hegel: Self-Consciousness and Self-Determination -- 4. Heidegger, Care, and Selfhood -- 5. Derrida and the Question of Subjectivity -- 6. The Dialectic and Transcendental Empiricism: Deleuze's Critique of Hegel -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976
SUBJECT Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 fast
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 fast
Subject Self (Philosophy)
Self-consciousness (Awareness)
Idealism, German.
Poststructuralism.
post-structuralism.
PHILOSOPHY -- Mind & Body.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Personality.
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Critical Theory.
Idealism, German
Poststructuralism
Self-consciousness (Awareness)
Self (Philosophy)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780231538206
0231538200