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Hegel's Circles: Self-Surprise in the Subjective Logic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2022

Andreja Novakovic Open the ORCID record for Andreja Novakovic [Opens in a new window]
Andreja Novakovic*
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University of California, Berkeley [email protected]
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Abstract

Hegel's Science of Logic tracks the self-contained and self-generated development of what Hegel calls the concept. My question is: can the concept in the Logic surprise itself? I argue that the answer to that question is yes—the concept can surprise itself when it rediscovers itself in a place it did not expect to be. I first clarify the kind of perspective that the Logic asks us as readers to occupy and its difference from the perspective inside the ‘opposition’ of consciousness. I then provide an example of the concept's self-surprise, namely, the transition from subjective to realized purpose in the Subjective Logic. I conclude by drawing out some implications of self-surprise for Hegel's method in the Logic and in the subsequent Realphilosophie.

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Hegel Bulletin , Volume 44 , Special Issue 1: Hegel and Teleology , April 2023 , pp. 5 - 26
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Hegel Society of Great Britain

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