The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing

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Rebecca Comay (Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto) Frank Ruda (Visiting Lecturer, Bard College Berlin)

The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing

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Rebecca Comay (Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto), Frank Ruda (Visiting Lecturer, Bard College Berlin)

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MIT Press
04 May 2018

Philosophy of language; Lexicography

Series: Short Circuits

An argument that what is usually dismissed as the ""mystical shell"" of Hegel's thought-the concept of absolute knowledge-is actually its most ""rational kernel.""This book sets out from a counterintuitive premise- the ""mystical shell"" of Hegel's system proves to be its most ""rational kernel."" Hegel's radicalism is located precisely at the point where his thought seems to regress most. Most current readings try to update Hegel's thought by pruning back his grandiose claims to ""absolute knowing."" Comay and Ruda invert this deflationary gesture by inflating what seems to be most trivial- the absolute is grasped only in the minutiae of its most mundane appearances. Reading Hegel without presupposition, without eliminating anything in advance or making any decision about what is essential and what is inessential, what is living and what is dead, they explore his presentation of the absolute to the letter.

The Dash is organized around a pair of seemingly innocuous details. Hegel punctuates strangely. He ends the Phenomenology of Spirit with a dash, and he begins the Science of Logic with a dash. This distinctive punctuation reveals an ambiguity at the heart of absolute knowing. The dash combines hesitation and acceleration. Its orientation is simultaneously retrospective and prospective. It both holds back and propels. It severs and connects. It demurs and insists. It interrupts and prolongs. It generates nonsequiturs and produces explanations. It leads in all directions- continuation, deviation, meaningless termination. This challenges every cliche about the Hegelian dialectic as a machine of uninterrupted teleological progress. The dialectical movement is, rather, structured by intermittency, interruption, hesitation, blockage, abruption, and random, unpredictable change-a rhythm that displays all the vicissitudes of the Freudian drive.

By: Rebecca Comay (Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature University of Toronto), Frank Ruda (Visiting Lecturer, Bard College Berlin)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
ISBN: 9780262535359
ISBN 10: 0262535351
Series: Short Circuits
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 04 May 2018
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rebecca Comay is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. Frank Ruda is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee.