{"product_id":"the-betrayal-of-substance-death-literature-and-sexual-difference-in-hegels-phenomenology-of-spirit-9780231199049","title":"The Betrayal of Substance Death Literature and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary C. Rawlinson offers a critical analysis of Hegel’s \u003ci\u003ePhenomenology of Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e that exposes three crucial elisions: Hegel’s effacements of sexual difference, human mortality, and literary style. Demonstrating the power of Hegel’s phenomenological method, \u003ci\u003eThe Betrayal of Substance\u003c\/i\u003e is a magisterial rereading of this challenging masterwork.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Rawlinson has written an elegant, nuanced analysis of Hegel’s phenomenology that addresses its constitutive limits. She undertakes a Hegelian critique of Hegel, revealing his blindspots—his understanding of sexual difference, the finite individual, and the arts in general—while affirming his insights regarding the play of difference in human history. -- Elizabeth Grosz, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Rawlinson’s \u003ci\u003eThe Betrayal of Substance \u003c\/i\u003eelaborates a sophisticated and thought-provoking Hegelian critique of Hegel himself. With decades of experience deftly interpreting Hegel’s philosophy, Rawlinson powerfully argues for a phenomenology of death, literature, and sexual difference as singular instances resisting uptake into any purported encyclopedic System of Absolute Knowledge. -- Adrian Johnston, author of \u003ci\u003eA New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek, and Dialectical Materialism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Betrayal of Substance\u003c\/i\u003e provides one of the most thorough and careful readings of Hegel's \u003ci\u003ePhenomenology of Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e to date. Rawlinson sees the limitations of what Hegel is doing while appreciating the magnitude of his achievement. This book's project is distinct, and its voice is singular. -- Todd McGowan, author of \u003ci\u003eEmancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Betrayal of Substance\u003c\/i\u003e is a careful elucidation of \u003ci\u003eThe Phenomenology of Spirit \u003c\/i\u003ewhich pays equal attention to its blind spots. Rawlinson argues, persuasively, that despite his enduring emphasis on life, Hegel betrays his phenomenological project in untethering consciousness from its immediate sensuous existence. Responding to these betrayals, she outlines a new conception of the political inspired by Hegel but based on creativity and the material aspects of public life. -- Elaine Miller, author of \u003ci\u003eHead Cases: Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eOn Reading Hegel’s \u003ci\u003ePhenomenology of Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning: Philosophy and the Problem of the Preface\u003cbr\u003eOur Time Is the Birth-Time of Spirit: Kant and the Bird on a Lime-Twig\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Epoch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eē\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Critique of Immediacy: The Unreality of the Sensuous\u003cbr\u003e2. Self-Consciousness: The Fate of the Singleton\u003cbr\u003e3. Happiness: Reason at Work\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The Phenomenology of Spirit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Spirit, or Transubstantiated Life: Infrastructures of Community\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Absolute Knowing: The Betrayal of Substance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Leaving Literature Behind: The Return to Immediacy in the Life of the Concept\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400355455319,"sku":"9780231199049","price":93.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231199049.jpg?v=1730470477","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-betrayal-of-substance-death-literature-and-sexual-difference-in-hegels-phenomenology-of-spirit-9780231199049","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}