Hegel's Legacy
Jean-Michel Rabaté profile
W 12-3
The focus of this graduate seminar will be Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and its literary legacy. Starting from accounts of Hegel's narrative of reflexive consciousness we will reach the main questions posed by literary modernity. The aim of this class will be to study the influence of Hegel's first masterpiece whose structure and plan we will first survey on various moments of modernity that all stress links with Hegel. We will thus examine a number of poets and novelists (Mallarm�, Proust, Breton, Bataille, Eliot, Joyce, Queneau) as well as philosophers (Croce, Althussser, Fukuyama, Derrida) and theoreticians of psychoanalysis (Lacan, Zizek). We will study in succession: 1. The Structure of the Phenomenology. From Hegel to Proust. 2. Hegel and the French Symbolists: Villiers, Mallarm�. 3. Hegel and British idealism: Bradley, Bosanquet, Eliot. 4. Hegel and Joyce (Vico and Hegel in the Wake). 5. Hegel and Madness (Foucault). 6. Hegel and Breton: Vera, Croce and Surrealism. 7. Hegel and Kojeve -- Fukuyama's "end of history". 8. Hegel and Bataille. 9. Lacan's Hegel : between Kojeve and Hyppolite. 10. The ghost of Hegel: Althusser's earlier texts. 11. Hegel and Derrida (Glas). 12. The Sublime Hegel: Zizek between Ding and Thing.
updated 2006-10-17
