Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2013
Abstract
For Hegel, it is obvious that the part cannot be grasped apart from the whole. However, what needs to be made manifest is the deeper insight that the part encloses the whole.
Hegel attempts to grasp this paradoxical presence of the whole in the part by means of the concept of the spirit. In the Phenomenology of the Spirit, it is primarily in the passages dedicated to interpretations of literary works that the spirit is explicitly made an object of analysis.
Therefore, the presence of the whole in the part will be pursued in view of Hegel’s interpretations of Antigone and of Rameau’s Nephew.