Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2019
Abstract
The author analyses Hegel's conception of time in the Phenomenology of Spirit. She focuses on Hegel's criticism of Newton's and Kant's conception and his introduction of subjective time into the very concept of time.
With this subjectification of time, the consciousness, or the protagonist of the Phenomenology itself, starts thinking in historical terms. It even seems as if the entire world and the consciousness thereof were completely integrated into a time-horizon, even "devoured" by time.
Yet, at the end of his Phenomenology, Hegel formulates a concept of the eternal and he says that in the end the consciousness abolishes time. The author focuses on possible meanings of this eternity wrought from time itself.