Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar (Tuesday - Week 6, HT24)

Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar

Interprets the experience of self-loss in Hegel’s Phenomenology through examining what is presented as a pure example of self-loss in the book, namely, consciousness’s experience of the fear of death in the life and death struggle.  Reads Augustine’s account of his experience of loss in Book IV of his Confessions as a real-life example of the experience of self-loss that Hegel describes abstractly in the Phenomenology as consciousness’s experience of the fear of death.  Uses the former to help interpret the latter, and to draw general lessons regarding Hegel’s conception of experience and its relation to philosophy in the Phenomenology.  

 

Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar Convenors: Joseph SchearManuel Dries, Kate Kirkpatrick and Mark Wrathall