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Metaphysics to Metafictions: Hegel, Nietzsche, and the End of Philosophy

Metaphysics to Metafictions: Hegel, Nietzsche, and the End of Philosophy

Miklowitz, Paul S.

Paperback

Series: Suny Hegelian Studies

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0791438783
ISBN13: 9780791438787
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Aug 13 1998
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.92 Depth: 8.93
Language: English

Examines the key role played by Nietzsche in the undoing of the Hegelian system of totality.

Through close reading and interpretive reflections, Paul Miklowitz examines key dialectics in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit in order to come to terms with the undoing of the Hegelian system of totality inaugurated by Nietzsche. In his interpretation of the Phenomenology, Miklowitz shows how Hegel skillfully manipulates narrative structures, even while disavowing them. Tracing the self-undermining implications latent in Hegel's strategy of retrospective phenomenological reconstruction through to their coming to self-consciousness in Nietzsche's central character of Zarathustra, Miklowitz argues that Hegel leaves a problematic legacy to philosophers, claiming to have achieved comprehensive wisdom in absolute knowing, and that Nietzsche responds by undermining the authority of the philosopher. Thus metaphysical questions are reformulated and resolved in narratives self-consciously mediated by irony: they become metafictions, philosophic imperatives that expressly acknowledge their own createdness and call into question their universality.

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