Another Thinking in the Introductionof Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit

Abstract

In this text, I shall attempt a different reading of the ‘Introduction’ of Hegel's Phe-nomenology of Spirit. A piece of reading intended as a going back to listen to the word of Hegel. In such a reading, we shall promptly hear two languages, two registers, in which Hegel speaks. A first register is the language of modern philosophy: science, conscious-ness, knowledge. That is the language that has always been the most listened to as if He-gel’s thinking was just a quarrel with his modern predecessors. However, little attention has been paid to a second register: the other language, the other one, the language thatis be-yond modernity. The other language is that of another way of thinking: wisdom, spirit, rec-onciliation. Another way of thinking that in spite of being torn apart, all fragmented, embraces the possibility of being reunited, of becoming a whole, a totality. A way of thinking that starts from the whole, from the unit, and never abandons that position