Doubt, Despair and the Conditions of Left Hegelian Critical Theory

IF 1.7 Q2 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Journal of Labor and Society Pub Date : 2023-05-17 DOI:10.1163/24714607-bja10117
V. Murthy
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This essay examines two readings of Hegel, namely Robyn Marasco’s The Highway of Despair: Critical Theory After Hegel and Stephen Houlgate’s Hegel On Being to construct a Hegelian political theory. From radically different perspectives, both books ask what it means to be “critical.” Some interpret being critical as implying avoiding ontological claims. Against this, I argue that Marxists should guard against reducing philosophy to history because this blinds us to the ontological conditions of historical narratives. Drawing on Houlgate’s book, the essay argues that by investigating general ontological conditions, one could construct a new critical theory of forms of consciousness. For example, through reading Hegel’s Logic and Phenomenology the essay suggests that recent experiences of despair might be connected to what Hegel calls the “unhappy consciousness,” which stems from both misunderstanding ontology and specific historical conditions. Radical political theories can mobilize despair when they understand its ontological and social conditions.
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怀疑、绝望与左黑格尔批判理论的条件
本文考察了马拉斯科的《绝望之路:黑格尔之后的批判理论》和霍尔盖特的《黑格尔论存在》这两种对黑格尔的解读,以构建黑格尔式的政治理论。两本书都从完全不同的角度提出了“批判”的含义。有些人认为批判意味着回避本体论的主张。与此相反,我认为马克思主义者应该防止将哲学简化为历史,因为这使我们看不到历史叙事的本体论条件。根据霍尔盖特的书,这篇文章认为,通过研究一般的本体论条件,人们可以构建一种新的意识形式批判理论。例如,通过阅读黑格尔的《逻辑学与现象学》,这篇文章表明,最近的绝望经历可能与黑格尔所说的“不幸意识”有关,这种意识源于对本体论和特定历史条件的误解。当激进的政治理论理解了绝望的本体论和社会条件时,就能激起绝望。
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