El caso Hegel. Sobre el "Prólogo" a Fenomenología del espíritu

Abstract

This paper is a critical review of the Preface in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. Its aim is to show how the development of Hegel’s work, always in search of the reason, ends up getting close to madness and, in consequence, reveals some negative features of the human being. To achieve this objective, a series of analogies supported in later authors are constructed. These are: psychosis in the Schreber case, on Freud; sacrifice and death, on Bataille; and syncope and photography as resources for the proposed approach to Nancy. Finally, it is proposed that the work of Hegel can be used to understand current philosophy as a labor of raving, a task which involves both retake and denial of Hegel’s work, and even forgetting it.