The aim of this essay is to examine issues held together by the Hegelian Zeitdiagnose on modernity as a period marked by a growing tendency toward knowledge. In particular, I will discuss to what extent such an epochal turning point, characteristic of a Bildung that has a cosmic dimension, seems to place philosophy as «thought of the world [Gedanke der Welt]», i.e. its very time «apprehended in thoughts [in Gedanken]», in a favourable position: namely, that of working on an actuality that in its forming (bilden) seems to exhibit in an extensive, widespread manner the element in which its philosophical understanding takes place. Through an analysis of some textual places from the Berlin period, I will show how the presence of Gedanke both on the side of the object (reality to be comprehended) and on the side of the discourse (philosophy offering the comprehension of the present) conditions the critical-diagnostic exercise of philosophy. This presence gives rise to a contemporaneity of philosophy with the world in which it is inscribed that is, however, different from what was the ursprüngliche Geschichte in antiquity. In this examination I will discuss the relationship between philosophy and that to which the concept of spirit also belongs: the religion of modernity, Protestantism, in which truth is for all.
Der erhabenste Begriff, der der neuern Zeit und ihrer Religion angehört: note sul concetto hegeliano di moderno
Giulia Bernard
2022
Abstract
The aim of this essay is to examine issues held together by the Hegelian Zeitdiagnose on modernity as a period marked by a growing tendency toward knowledge. In particular, I will discuss to what extent such an epochal turning point, characteristic of a Bildung that has a cosmic dimension, seems to place philosophy as «thought of the world [Gedanke der Welt]», i.e. its very time «apprehended in thoughts [in Gedanken]», in a favourable position: namely, that of working on an actuality that in its forming (bilden) seems to exhibit in an extensive, widespread manner the element in which its philosophical understanding takes place. Through an analysis of some textual places from the Berlin period, I will show how the presence of Gedanke both on the side of the object (reality to be comprehended) and on the side of the discourse (philosophy offering the comprehension of the present) conditions the critical-diagnostic exercise of philosophy. This presence gives rise to a contemporaneity of philosophy with the world in which it is inscribed that is, however, different from what was the ursprüngliche Geschichte in antiquity. In this examination I will discuss the relationship between philosophy and that to which the concept of spirit also belongs: the religion of modernity, Protestantism, in which truth is for all.
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