Hegel's Recollection

Download or read book Hegel's Recollection written by Donald Phillip Verene and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1985-06-30 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Phillip Verene has advanced a completely new reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. He shows that the philosophic meaning of this work depends as much on Hegel's use of metaphor and image as it does on Hegel's dialectical and discursive descriptions of various stages of consciousness. The focus is on Hegel's concept of recollection (Erinnerung). Consciousness confronts itself with the aim of achieving absolute knowing. This is the first commentary to regard metaphor, irony, and memory as keys to the understanding of Hegel's basic philosophical position.