Essence of scorn12/27/2022 ![]() That is, these relational features come to “shine” or be reflected in the person the researcher observes. The former perspective sees the actions of a person as immediate qualities of their character and being, whereas the sociological perspective encounters the person as the expression of a history, material conditions, and cultural practices within which they emerge or are constituted. (175)įor instance, when we shift from a naive perspective of everydayness to say a sociological perspective, we have made the shift from the doctrine of being to the doctrine of essence. – as a result, essence is being as shining within itself. – Being has not vanished but, in the first place, essence as simple relation to itself is being while on the other hand, being, according to its one-sided determination of being something-immediate, is degraded to something merely negative, to a shine. Essence– as Being that mediates itself with itself through its own negativity – is relation to itself only by being relation to another but this other is immediately, not as what is but as something-posited and mediated. In Essence the determinations are only relational, not yet as reflected strictly within themselves that is why the Concept is not yet for-itself. In the opening paragraph of the second division, Hegel writes:Įssence is the Concept as posited Concept. This can be seen with special clarity in The Encyclopaedia Logic (trans Geraets, Suchting, and Harris). ![]() For me, Hegel’s account of essence in the Science of Logic is especially interesting as it so nicely develops an ontology of relation, paying special attention to features of self-reflexivity. I suppose I’m not the first to have this sort of love-hate relationship with Hegel. Frankly I find Deleuze’s Hegel unrecognizable and suspect that it’s Kojeve’s Hegel that’s being addressed though Deleuze, as a student of Hyppolite’s, was certainly in a position to know better. I also get nervous discussing Hegel as he’s been the object of such scorn in French theory. ![]()
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