Jean Wahl. Professional name dropper. Existentialist. Rife in a day of French Hegel. Most of this (And partly what I got from a review) would be so much easier to understand with a more supplemental understanding of Hegel. Wahl IS a dialectician according to himself in this book,
and apparently in his book on Hegel’s view of unhappy consciousness. He’s not a guy who wants to DO metaphysics. That’s the point of the chapter, I think. Wahl sees a dialectical character (Still struggling to understand the deeper meaning of this) between received/ unchanging metaphysical concepts and necessary ‘revolutions’ in metaphysical concepts.
This one has a deep historical bent. The same supplement I read talks about how there is a rejection of metaphysics, which I also see here in Wahl. It would have been cool to have some more opinions on Spinoza, but those will probably come up in the next Chapter on Substance.
The point of the chapter seems to be this dialectical development of thought and the phenomenological basis of ‘feeling’ as the one that will define knowledge above other kinds of priorities. This feeling is the shifting characteristic/ Zeitgeist of the time and period.
A similar thing is seen in Marx, but these are reducible (Sort of) to material relations of production. I don’t know where Wahl would emphasize this.
The supplement also shows there was a French reaction between rationalism and spiritualism, and this makes sense, as in my first post announcing the Wahl reading, there is an article showing Wahls interest is sustained in the development of the religion. So instead of material relations, it is the relation between intellect and a vitality that Wahl sees as primary. But he does focus and endorse this towards a secular understanding bolstered by Science. This would make sense concerning the Lebensphilosophie (Look at first Wahl blog post) interpretation of Hegel adopted by Wahl.
I name-dropped a lot too. Let’s work through this. No need to hit word count. 100 minimum, so one paragraph, 3 if you can 500 ideally.
Jean Wahl. Professional name dropper. Existentialist. Rife in a day of French Hegel. Most of this (And partly what I got from a review) would be so much easier to understand with a more supplemental understanding of Hegel. Wahl IS a dialectician according to himself in this book,
and apparently in his book on Hegel’s view of unhappy consciousness. He’s not a guy who wants to DO metaphysics. That’s the point of the chapter, I think. Wahl sees a dialectical character (Still struggling to understand the deeper meaning of this) between received/ unchanging metaphysical concepts and necessary ‘revolutions’ in metaphysical concepts.
This one has a deep historical bent. The same supplement I read talks about how there is a rejection of metaphysics, which I also see here in Wahl. It would have been cool to have some more opinions on Spinoza, but those will probably come up in the next Chapter on Substance.
The point of the chapter seems to be this dialectical development of thought and the phenomenological basis of ‘feeling’ as the one that will define knowledge above other kinds of priorities. This feeling is the shifting characteristic/ Zeitgeist of the time and period.
A similar thing is seen in Marx, but these are reducible (Sort of) to material relations of production. I don’t know where Wahl would emphasize this.
The supplement also shows there was a French reaction between rationalism and spiritualism, and this makes sense, as in my first post announcing the Wahl reading, there is an article showing Wahls interest is sustained in the development of the religion. So instead of material relations, it is the relation between intellect and a vitality that Wahl sees as primary. But he does focus and endorse this towards a secular understanding bolstered by Science. This would make sense concerning the Lebensphilosophie (Look at first Wahl blog post) interpretation of Hegel adopted by Wahl.
I name-dropped a lot too. Let’s work through this. No need to hit word count. 100 minimum, so one paragraph, 3 if you can 500 ideally.