By Paul S. Miklowitz
Examines the most important position performed by means of Nietzsche within the undoing of the Hegelian process of totality.
Through shut studying and interpretive reflections, Paul Miklowitz examines key dialectics in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit with a purpose to come to phrases with the undoing of the Hegelian approach of totality inaugurated through Nietzsche. In his interpretation of the Phenomenology, Miklowitz indicates how Hegel skillfully manipulates narrative buildings, even whereas disavowing them. Tracing the self-undermining implications latent in Hegel's technique of retrospective phenomenological reconstruction via to their "coming to self-consciousness" in Nietzsche's relevant personality of Zarathustra, Miklowitz argues that Hegel leaves a complex legacy to philosophers, claiming to have completed finished knowledge in "absolute knowing," and that Nietzsche responds by means of undermining the authority of the thinker. hence metaphysical questions are reformulated and resolved in narratives self-consciously mediated through irony: they turn into "metafictions," philosophic imperatives that expressly recognize their very own createdness and contact into query their universality.
In analyzing Nietzsche's post-apocalyptic and anti-Hegelian perspectivism, Miklowitz specializes in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, delivering a brand new interpretation of "eternal go back" in gentle of the complex personality of repetition intrinsic to the narrative constitution of metaphysical illumination: Nietzsche's undertaking, not like Hegel's metaphysics, proposes to serve philosophy now not as a uniquely precise resource of doctrine, yet particularly as an exemplary test in metafiction. eventually, Miklowitz additionally in brief examines a number of the "postmodern" results of this highbrow historical past and its results for the theoretical discourse of philosophy--whose finish (in the experience of a telos) used to be reached in Hegel, simply to have its finish (in the feel of demise or destruction) proclaimed via Nietzsche.
"This is a great publication. It has an enormous thesis--the fictionalization of discourse because the quintessentially sleek response to the presumptive cognizance of metaphysics in Hegel's philosophy of absolutely the. The paintings outlines in exemplary, if schematic, model the foremost function performed via Nietzsche within the undoing of the Hegelian procedure of totality and marks the issues in Hegel that Nietzsche can capitalize on." -- Cyril O'Regan, writer of The Heterodox Hegel
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