La reconnaissance et son échec. Pour une critique hégélienne de la subjectivité transcendantale

Abstract

The aim of this contribution is to offer an analysis of recognition and its failure through a reading of section IV of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. The author’s reflection appears fundamental insofar as it not only shows itself as the main occurrence of the theme in the history of thought: in it, recognition is thought of above all in relation to its intersubjective failure. We will therefore proceed with a reading that firstly sheds light on the relationship between recognition and desire. Secondly, it will be seen how the desire for recognition constitutes the object of a systematic failure. Finally, it will be a matter of recognising, in this failed recognition, the successful affirmation of a model of transcendental subjectivity, which must be transcended when one wants to think the absolute (i.e., Hegelianly, to think in the proper sense).

Keywords

Recognition, Hegel, Desire, Alterity, Transcendental