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Hegel’s Offene: Apperception, Absolution and the Absolute

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2017

Joshua Wretzel
Joshua Wretzel*
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Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germanyjwretzel@gmail.com
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Abstract

This paper offers a limited defence of two seemingly disparate interpretive approaches to free thought in Hegel’s Jena Phenomenology of Spirit. On the one hand, I defend the view of so-called post-Kantian Hegelians, that Kant’s synthetic unity of apperception is central to Hegel’s account of free thinking in the Phenomenology. On the other hand, I argue that the notions of das Offene in Heidegger’s Vom Wesen der Wahrheit and Ab-Lösung in his 1930/31 lectures on Hegel’s Phenomenology are no less crucial to an understanding of free thought in Hegel’s work. I show that absolution is a condition for the possibility of das Offene, which is a condition for the possibility of apperception in its reflexive capacity.

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Hegel Bulletin , Volume 38 , Special Issue 1: Hegel and Phenomenology , May 2017 , pp. 171 - 187
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© The Hegel Society of Great Britain 2017 

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