{"id":4959,"date":"2010-02-19T17:21:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T21:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=4959"},"modified":"2010-04-03T21:52:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T01:52:49","slug":"houlgate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2010\/02\/19\/houlgate\/","title":{"rendered":"houlgate on koj\u00e8ve"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houlgate, S. G. W. F. Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit.
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Houlgate opines on page 13:<\/p>\n

In my view, however, Koj\u00e8ve seriously distorts Hegel’s account of self-consciousness in the Phenomenology<\/em> by conflating the idea that desire is the activity of negation with the further idea that the subject of desire is essentially “empty.” \u00a0According to Koj\u00e8ve, the desiring subject is “an emptiness (vide) <\/em>greedy for content; an emptiness that wants to be filled by what is full”; that is to say, “desire is absence<\/em> of being” that seeks to fill itself “with a natural<\/em>, biological content.” To my mind, this distinctively Koj\u00e8vian conception of desire finds no place in Hegel’s account. \u00a0Desire does, indeed, negate the object. Yet it does so not to fill a void in the subject, but rather to confirm and enhance the subject’s sense of self: desire, Hegel writes, is simply the movement of consciousness whereby its “identity of itself with itself becomes explicit for it.” \u00a0Pace <\/em>Koj\u00e8ve, the desiring self in the Phenomenology<\/em> does not lack a sense of its own being. If anything, it is rather too full of itself, for it regards everything around it as there for it alone. In so doing, desire considers the other to be nothing but an opportunity for desire itself to negate it. \u00a0Desire is thus for Hegel “certain of the nothingness of this other,”<\/strong> but it is by no means clear that desire takes itself to be sheer “absence” or “emptiness.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Houlgate, S. G. W. F. Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit. Houlgate opines on page 13: In my view, however, Koj\u00e8ve seriously distorts Hegel’s account of self-consciousness in the Phenomenology by conflating the idea that desire is the activity of negation with the further idea that the subject of desire is essentially “empty.” \u00a0According to Koj\u00e8ve, … Continue reading “houlgate on koj\u00e8ve”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,38,100,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desire","category-ethics","category-hegel","category-subjectivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4959"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5402,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions\/5402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}