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GF colloquium: Katrin Pahl (Johns Hopkins) on Hegel and Kleist

20 June 2018 @ 08:00 - 17:00

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The talk argues that G.W.F. Hegel and Heinrich von Kleist intervene in the new binary organization of “the sexes” that emerges at the end of the eighteenth century, reaching its philosophical culmination in Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s “Outline of Family Right” in Foundations of Natural Right (1797), and that their intervention can, from today’s perspective, be described as queer or queering (to different degrees). The young Hegel develops a critique of Fichte’s system of natural right under the heading of Sittlichkeit (ethical life or ethical…
The talk argues that G.W.F. Hegel and Heinrich von Kleist intervene in the new binary organization of “the sexes” that emerges at the end of the eighteenth century, reaching its philosophical culmination in Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s “Outline of Family Right” in Foundations of Natural Right (1797), and that their intervention can, from today’s perspective, be described as queer or queering (to different degrees). The young Hegel develops a critique of Fichte’s system of natural right under the heading of Sittlichkeit (ethical life or ethical order), but by the time of The Phenomenology of Spirit, he exposes the inherent contradictions of ethical life and presents them, with reference to Sophocles’ Antigone, as tragic – a tragedy rooted in the gender binary. The talk will present Kleist’s tragedy Penthesilea as parodying Hegel’s gendered notion of tragic conflict while also offering important insights into the workings of emotion. For more on prof. Pahl, see: http://grll.jhu.edu/directory/katrin-pahl/

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Date:
20 June 2018
Time:
08:00 - 17:00
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Utrecht
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The talk argues that G.W.F. Hegel and Heinrich von Kleist intervene in the new binary organization of “the sexes” that emerges at the end of the eighteenth century, reaching its philosophical culmination in Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s “Outline of Family Right” in Foundations of Natural Right (1797), and that their intervention can, from today’s perspective, be described as queer or queering (to different degrees). The young Hegel develops a critique of Fichte’s system of natural right under the heading of Sittlichkeit (ethical life or ethical order), but by the time of The Phenomenology of Spirit, he exposes the inherent contradictions of ethical life and presents them, with reference to Sophocles’ Antigone, as tragic – a tragedy rooted in the gender binary. The talk will present Kleist’s tragedy Penthesilea as parodying Hegel’s gendered notion of tragic conflict while also offering important insights into the workings of emotion.

For more on prof. Pahl, see:
http://grll.jhu.edu/directory/katrin-pahl/

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