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- Title
Acción y muerte en la Antígona de Hegel.
- Authors
Pérez, Berta M.
- Abstract
The aim of this paper is to offer, along an analysis of the passage on Sophocles' Antigone in the Phenomenology of Spirit, an interpretation of Hegel's concept of action that opposes the usual assumption that he had thought tragic conflict to be overcome by the development of modern action (or modern spirit). This text reveals that action, though proving itself to be an absolute principle, possesses nevertheless a broken and paradoxical structure: it necessarily both presupposes and negates an immediate and substantive ground "in-itself" that in the end hides the negativity of death. By showing that this bond to substance is for Hegel essential to action, the paper argues against other readings that even if the ancient "ethical substance" is superseded in the history of spirit, (modern) action cannot free itself from this tragic character. Finally, I defend that it is precisely because of this very condition that action is destructive as well as productive, and hence able to open up history.
- Publication
Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía, 2019, Vol 36, Issue 1, p107
- ISSN
0211-2337
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5209/ASHF.63364