Del vínculo trascendental entre la modernidad, lo barroco y lo romántico

Abstract

“El caso Hegel. Sobre el ‘Prólogo’ a Fenomenología del espíritu” (Mario Morales Domínguez). This paper is a critical review of the Preface in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. Its aim is to show how the development of Hegel’s work, always in search of the reason, ends up getting close to madness and, in consequence, reveals some negative features of the human being. To achieve this objective, a series of analogies supported in later authors are constructed. These are: psychosis in the Schreber case, on Freud; sacrifice and death, on Bataille; and syncope and photography as resources for the proposed approach to Nancy. Finally, it is proposed that the work of Hegel can be used to understand current philosophy as a labor of raving, a task which involves both retake and denial of Hegel’s work, and even forgetting it.“Del vínculo trascendental entre la modernidad, lo barroco y lo romántico”(Víctor Gerardo Rivas). This dissertation contains an introduction and three sections. In the former I explain the import of the concepts that I use here so as to show that the baroque and the romantic have a philosophical relevance because they show each to its own the difference of subjectivity and nature that is the starting point of Modernity. In the first section I reconstruct the Cartesian project of a methodical certainty that overcomes the contradictions of the ancient metaphysics and I show too why that project implies a conflictive relation between the representation and the sensitivity that contradicts it through the deceitful seductiveness of images and the force of time that devastates any sense. In the second section, I show that this leads us to the baroque, that I consider a way for represent the tension between subjectivity and absolute temporality. In the last section I do the same regarding the romantic, which I take as the experience of the desiderative complexity of the subject.