Abstract

ZAMBRANA, Rocío. HEGEL'S LEGACY. Univ. philos. [online]. 2012, vol.29, n.59, pp.15-31. ISSN 0120-5323.

Answering the challenge of Hegel's idealism and its perceived logocentrism, has arguably been a defining feature of nineteenth-and twentieth-century philosophy. In this essay, I offer a reflection on the legacy of Hegel by reconstructing a Hegelian notion of legacy. I develop this notion in response to Jacques Derrida's discussion of inheritance. Both Hegel and Derrida articulate the structure of legacy, inheritance, and history on the basis of the structures of gathering. For both, gathering is an act of memory that determines a legacy as a legacy, a history as a history. Gathering determines an event, norm, idea, or institution as something to be passed on for a future to come. While Derrida concludes that inheritance implies decision, Hegel's recollection provides the basis for what I will call a critical history.

Keywords : Hegel; Derrida; absolute knowing; immanent critique; Phenomenology of Spirit.

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