Re: Heidegger & Hegel

>Reading Heidegger, one would surely think that it would be difficult (to
>say the least) to read the Hegelian absolute in terms of difference.

>Iain

But what about mediation as a dialectic towards the Absolute? Where "ego,
or becoming in general, this process of mediating, is, because of its being
simple, just immediacy coming to be, and is immediacy itself" (in Hegel's
preface to _Phenom. of Geist_).

The immediacy of lived experience (reduced to ego) is thought as mediation,
and even though "mediating is nothing but self-identity working itself out"
(ibid) where Hegel's dialectic is actually supposed to complete itself in a
self-identical Absolute, this is still a "self having knowledge of itself
in the absolute antithesis of itself" (ibid), or a self-negation (a not?).
Hegel goes from mediation to absolute self-identity as a negation, where
identity and difference seem to be constantly at play in his text, although
it ends in the 'high ether' of Absolute self-consciousness as the ground
for any empirical science of lived experience.

Reading the preface alongside Div.II chpt 1-3 of _Being and Time_ on the
methodology of authentic projection, Heidegger's project seems very
Hegelian, but open ended whereas Hegel is always attempting (or deferring)
a closure of sorts. An authentic disclosure of care as the temporalizing
temporality of everydayness, the nullity of the (they)self, the emphasis on
difference over identity, and the analysis (a realist idealism) of lived
experience in terms of ego/self/care: how can Heidegger not be responding
(albeit in a Kantian style) to one of the main protagonists of German
Idealism?

Malcolm.




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