Reverberating the Glas: Towards a Deconstructive Account of Particularity in Hegel’s Logic of the Concept

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hgl.2020.24" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hgl.2020.24</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hgl.2020.24" target="_blank" >10.1017/hgl.2020.24</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Reverberating the Glas: Towards a Deconstructive Account of Particularity in Hegel’s Logic of the Concept

Original language description

Understanding Hegel’s account of particularity has proven to be anything but straightforward. Two main accounts of particularity have been advanced: the particular as an example or instance and the particular as a subjective perspective on a universal concept. The problem with these accounts is that they reduce particularity either to singularity or to universality. As Derrida’s analyses make apparent, the ‘structure of exemplarity’ in Hegel is quite intricate. Hegel uses ‘example’ in three senses: it means (1) ‘instance’, ‘illustration’, or (2) ‘model’, ‘exemplary individual’, ‘paradigm’, or (3) a by-play (a meaning derived from Hegel’s neologism beiherspielen, in which Beispiel is understood quasi-etymologically as a ‘by-play’ of accidental moments). A Beispiel in the first sense can be replaced by another instance in a free play (by-play). This play of accidental moments, however, is not entirely free; it generates a series (of replacements) that ultimately leads to an example in the second sense, to an exemplary individual. I argue that particularity can be taken as exemplarity of this kind, oscillating between a singular example and a universal paradigm. Within this by-play, the universal concept, its law, is supposed to be mediated and determined. However, out of the differences between the examples the by-play induces another law, the law of non-mediation, which may, in Derrida’s view, actually negate the dialectical movement towards universality. I argue, utilizing Malabou’s concept of plasticity, that this disruption may be recovered. This implies that each individual example within a series is a particular determination of the universal. Hence, we can take literally Hegel’s claim that the movement of the concept is play.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-16680S" target="_blank" >GA19-16680S: Paradigmatic thinking: singularity, universality, self-reference</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Hegel Bulletin

ISSN

2051-5367

e-ISSN

2051-5375

Volume of the periodical

43

Issue of the periodical within the volume

19

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

28

Pages from-to

93-120

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85130224074