Abstract
Susan Sontag wrote a controversial article about pornography: "The pornographic Imagination" in which she refers to Hegel. Hegel radically changes th. way of understanding the philosophical task and thus inaugurates, in her understanding, a new post-religious language that opens possibilities hitherto unknown to Western culture. The concept of negativity is central. Pornography is a radical exercise in negativity. The subject travels a painful but necessary learning patheto reach their liberation. In this "critical" way, authors such as Freud, Sartre, Derrida or Genet are presents briefly in this article coming from the hand of Sontag.
Highlights
Susan Sontag wrote a controversial article about pornography: “The pornographic Imagination” in which she refers to Hegel
En el interesante artículo de Susan Sontag “The Pornographic Imagination” encontramos una sorprendente referencia a Hegel: “Hegel made perhaps the grandest attempt to create a post-religious vocabulary, out of philosophy, that would command the treasures of passion and credibility and emotive appropriateness that were gathered into the religious vocabulary
Hegels failure lies like a gigantic disturbing hulk across the intellectual landscape
Summary
Xabier Insausti Ugarriza es doctor en Filosofía por la Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität de Múnich (Alemania). Ha publicado diversos trabajos sobre el Idealismo Alemán, especialmente sobre Hegel. Ha traducido al euskera la Phänomenologie des Geistes (Fenomenología del espíritu) de Hegel, además de otros libros de Adorno y Freud. Susan Sontag escribió un polémico artículo sobre la pornografía: “The pornographic Imagination” en el que hace una referencia a Hegel. Hegel cambia radicalmente el modo de entender el quehacer filosófico y así inaugura, a su entender, un nuevo lenguaje post-religioso que abre posibilidades hasta entonces desconocidas a la cultura occidental. La pornografía es un ejercicio radical de negatividad. Por esta vía “crítica” van a discurrir autores como Freud, Sartre, Derrida o Genet que presentamos brevemente en este artículo de la mano de Sontag
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