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Althusser’s criticism of Hegel’s conception of totality can be traced throughout all his works, starting from his early dissertation, written in 1947 and entitled Du contenu dans la pensée de G.W.F. Hegel. The Hegelian totality, understood here mainly as a historical achievement, is analyzed and questioned with the purpose of disclosing the peculiar relationship established between its form and content.
Keywords: Totality (philosophy); History; Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich; Knowledge; Plasticity; Time; Contingency (philosophy)
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Part of De/Constituting Wholes Containing:
[Frontmatter] /
Beginnings / Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Sexual Ghosts and the Whole of History / Volker Woltersdorff
Things I Learned from the Book of Ruth / Ruth Preser
Claims of Existence between Biopolitics and Thanatopolitics / Eirini Avramopoulou
Differently Queer / Manuele Gragnolati
Warburg’s Ghost / Filippo Trentin
Hegel and the Ad-venture of the Totality
The Innate Plasticity of Bodies and Minds / Robert Meunier, Valentine Reynaud
Pumping Honey / Arnd Wedemeyer
An Eclipse of the Screen / Marcus Coelen
[Backmatter] /
Title
Hegel and the Ad-venture of the Totality
Author(s)
Jamila M.H. Mascat
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-11_07
Description
Althusser’s criticism of Hegel’s conception of totality can be traced throughout all his works, starting from his early dissertation, written in 1947 and entitled Du contenu dans la pensée de G.W.F. Hegel. The Hegelian totality, understood here mainly as a historical achievement, is analyzed and questioned with the purpose of disclosing the peculiar relationship established between its form and content.
Is Part Of
De/Constituting Wholes
Place
Vienna
Publisher
Turia + Kant
Date
2017
Subject
Totality (philosophy)
History
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Knowledge
Plasticity
Time
Contingency (philosophy)
Rights
© by the author(s)
This version is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Bibliographic Citation
Jamila M.H. Mascat, ‘Hegel and the Ad-venture of the Totality’, in De/Constituting Wholes: Towards Partiality Without Parts, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Manuele Gragnolati, Cultural Inquiry, 11 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017), pp. 131–49 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-11_07>
Language
en-GB
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131
page end
149
Source
De/Constituting Wholes: Towards Partiality Without Parts, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Manuele Gragnolati, Cultural Inquiry, 11 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017), pp. 131–49
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Cite as: Jamila M.H. Mascat, ‘Hegel and the Ad-venture of the Totality’, in De/Constituting Wholes: Towards Partiality Without Parts, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Manuele Gragnolati, Cultural Inquiry, 11 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017), pp. 131–49 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-11_07>