Memory, History, Justice in Hegel by Angelica Nuzzo (English) Hardcover Book

Publisher Description

This reconstruction of the work of 'dialectical memory' in Hegel raises the fundamental question of the principle that presides on the articulation of history and indicates in Hegel's philosophy two alternative models of conceiving history: one that grounds history on 'ethical memory,' the other that sees justice as the moving principle of history.

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By exploring the connection between memory, history, and justice, the book makes Hegel into a fundamental player in the contemporary discussion

Author Biography

ANGELICA NUZZO Professor of Philosophy at City University of New York, USA. She is editor of Hegel and the Analytic Tradition (2009), and author of Ideal Embodiment. Kant's Theory of Sensibility (2008) and Kant and the Unity of Reason (2005).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction History and Memory in the Phenomenology of Spirit Thinking and Recollecting: The Logical Memories of Being Thinking and Recollecting: Psychological Memory, Personal History, and Subjectivity Memory, History, Justice After History: Absolute Memory Conclusion Bibliography Index

Long Description

Angelica Nuzzo offers a thoroughly new, engaging perspective on Hegel's idea of history by turning Hegel into a participant in the current discussion among historians and philosophers on the relation between history and memory. The fundamental question regards the guiding principle of history and the structure of historical processes. Does memory play a role in shaping developmental processes as historical? In order to answer this question the concept of 'dialectical memory' is introduced. The thesis is that Hegel offers two alternative models for thinking history. The first, developed in the early Phenomenology of Spirit, sees in 'collective memory' the moving principle of history; the second, developed on the basis of the Logic, indicates the principle of 'justice' as the foundation of history, and assigns to the works of art, religion, and philosophy the function of conveying the 'absolute memory' of spirit. The book ends with a Hegelian interpretation of the idea of memory mobilized in Toni Morrison's and Primo Levi's literary works-examples of spirit's 'absolute memory.'

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By exploring the connection between memory, history, and justice, the book makes Hegel into a fundamental player in the contemporary discussion

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