Nothing

Citation

Hass A (2023) Nothing. In: Rajan T & Whistler D (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism. 1 ed. Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 343-360. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27345-2

Abstract
This chapter argues that the return of the question of nothing and negativity in late modernity was in response less to nihilism or existentialism since German Idealism and more to German Idealism itself, and to Hegel especially, where the problems of self-consciousness, freedom, and self-creation remained to be reconciled.

Keywords
nothing; negation; German Idealism; poststructuralism; Hegel

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Dr Andrew Hass

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