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书名: Hegel: The Restlessness Of The Negative
作者: Jean-Luc Nancy (Author), Jason E. Smith (Translator), Steven Miller (Translator)
出版社: Univ Of Minnesota Press; First edition edition (April 18, 2002)
语言：English
ISBN-10: 0816632219
ISBN-13: 978-0816632213
Book Description
At once an introduction to Hegel and a radically new vision of his thought, this remarkable work penetrates the entirety of the Hegelian field with brevity and precision, while compromising neither rigor nor depth. One of the most original interpreters of Hegel, Jean-Luc Nancy offers a portrait as startlingly unconventional as it is persuasive, and at the same time demonstrates its relevance to a very contemporary understanding of the political. Here Hegel appears not as the quintessential dispassionate synthesizer and totalizer, but as the inaugural thinker of the contemporary world-one whose thought is inseparable from anxiety and desire, as well as the concrete, the inconclusive, the singular.
Under Nancy's scrutiny, no facet of Hegel's work remains untouched or unrevised: problems of aesthetics, affect, and history, as well as the implications of freedom, politics, and being-in-common. Engaging eleven judiciously chosen points essential to Hegel's sprawling system of thought-restlessness, becoming, penetration, logic, present, manifestation, trembling, sense, desire, freedom, and "we"-Nancy develops precise arguments for their philosophical importance for us today.
Nancy's Hegel is the thinker who foregrounds the original, irrepressible, and joyous embrace of the inevitable will to philosophize; he is the philosophical guide who negotiates between the two extremes of stupidity and madness along the path to meaning. In the face of the horror of history and despite the temptation of past-based solutions, this Hegel's uncompromising foothold in the real makes him our contemporary, a thinker for our time.
Review
"The extraordinary feat of Nancy's book is providing a fresh look at Hegel. An entirely new picture of Hegel emerges from Nancy's pages, not that of the system-builder, the homogenizing and totalizing philosopher, the champion of dialectical acrobatics, the end of history philosopher, but of a thinker of our time, one whose thought concerns us, a thinker of the we, in short, of community." — Rodolphe Gasché, SUNY Buffalo
"Nancy makes Hegel accessible, but he also makes him new, evoking a sense of the affirmative and open character of his thinking that is rarely acknowledged within contemporary discourse." — Judith Butler, author of Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France
"In less than 100 pages, Jean-Luc Nancy provides an innovative and strikingly original interpretation of Hegel’s philosophy." — Virginia Quarterly Review
"Nancy’s re-thinking of Hegel is both intriguing and plausible, and most importantly, a profoundly insightful penetration of our world, both in order to understand and describe, but most importantly to critique and improve." — Philosophy in Review
About the Author
Jean-Luc Nancy is professor of philosophy at the University of Strasbourg. Among his many books are The Inoperative Community (1991), and The Sense of the World (1998), both published by the University of Minnesota Press.
Jason Smith and Steven Miller are doctoral candidates in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.
