German Studies Lecture Series: Hegel in Jena - The Birth of a New Paradigm by Klaus Vieweg (University of Jena)

Please join the German Studies Lecture Series talk entitled, "Hegel in Jena - The Birth of a New Paradigm" by Klaus Vieweg (Professor of Philosophy, University of Jena).

Abstract:
It was in Jena that Hegel built his new idealism. This was the exciting period of intellectual growth where he created his one groundbreaking idea—the moment when Hegel became Hegel. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, the greatest book ever to be written in Jena, was both the highlight and the ending of the Golden Age of philosophy around 1800. The Phenomenology served as the legitimation of the beginning of philosophy, an ambition that Hegel’s Science of Logic properly illuminates in full.

There were three main goals: a) the Bildung of consciousness towards knowledge, to be carried out in a step-by-step way through knowledge itself; b) the presentation of ‘phenomenal’ knowledge in its complete shape, the path of consciousness to conceptual  (begreifendes) thinking; and c) self-fulfilling skepticism: The birth of a new paradigm of philosophy, the sublation of the paradigm of consciousness. In this talk, Professor Klaus Vieweg shows how Hegel’s thought remains vital today as a philosophy of reason and freedom.

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The German Studies Lecture Series is hosted by the Department of German Studies, Stanford University.