Publikationsdetails
The Freedom of Life: Hegelian Perspectives, Berlin: August Verlag 2013.
Sammelband (Hrsg.)Autor(en): Khurana, Thomas
Publikationsjahr: 2013
Abstract: For post-Kantian philosophy, “life” is a transitional concept that relates the realm of nature to the realm of freedom. From this vantage point, what is living seems to have the double character of being both already and not yet free: Compared with the external necessity of dead nature, living beings already seem to exhibit a basic type of spontaneity and normativity that on the other hand still has to be superseded on the path to the freedom and normativity of spirit. The contributions in this volume take their departure from Hegel in order to investigate the extent to which concepts of the living are needed to understand the genesis and structure of theoretical and practical self-determination. These analyses find in Hegel’s philosophy a form of thinking that contests the mere opposition between the determinations of life and the freedom of spirit, a thinking that strives to conceptualize a freedom that realizes itself in and through life: a freedom of life.
Keywords: Norm and Nature; Second Nature; Autonomy; Life; Hegel
Forschungsfeld: Forschungsfeld 1 - Die Normativität normativer Ordnungen: Entstehung, Fluchtpunkte, PerformativitätForschungsprojekt: Normativität und Subjektivität: 1. Natur – 2. Natur – Geist
Fachrichtung(en): Philosophie
