This other life that knows itself as life
- In this paper, I discuss Karen Ng's reconstruction of Hegel's concept of life. On Ng's account, Hegel's conception of life has a remarkable double role to play: Life is both the proper object of judgment as well as a fundamental characterization of the activity of the judging subject. In a first step, I highlight the insight that Ng's account sheds on the internal connection of life and self-consciousness and the peculiar normativity of life. In a second step, I raise three concerns about Ng's strong focus on the logical notion of life which she characterizes as non-empirical and a priori. I argue that in order to uncover the full significance of the notion of life for Hegel we have to turn to his Philosophy of Nature and Spirit.
| Author details: | Thomas KhuranaORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12745 |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-094761-3 |
| ISSN: | 0966-8373 |
| ISSN: | 1468-0378 |
| Title of parent work (English): | European journal of philosophy |
| Subtitle (English): | comments on Karen Ng's Hegel's concept of life |
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Place of publishing: | Oxford |
| Publication type: | Review |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2022/01/06 |
| Publication year: | 2021 |
| Release date: | 2023/03/17 |
| Volume: | 29 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Number of pages: | 9 |
| First page: | 1136 |
| Last Page: | 1144 |
| Remarks: | Rezension zu: Ng, Karen: Hegel's concept of life : self-consciousness, freedon, logic. - New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020. - xiii, 319 p. - ISBN 978-0-19-094761-3 |
| Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Philosophie |
| DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 10 Philosophie / 100 Philosophie und Psychologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| License (German): |  CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
