TY - BOOK ID - 119430608 TI - Hegel's 'individuality' : beyond category PY - 2023 SN - 3031213696 3031213688 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Idealism, German. KW - Philosophy KW - German Idealism. KW - History of Philosophy. KW - History. KW - German idealism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:119430608 AB - This book explores an overlooked area in Hegel studies: his use of ‘individuality’ (Individualität). Hegel joined a lively conversation, from Leibniz to Romanticism and beyond, about this novel concept/phenomenon. Successive chapters track Hegel’s engagement, in such texts as the Phenomenology, Encyclopedia, and Aesthetics. Hegel’s system tends to follow a syllogistic logic (universal, particular, singular), but ‘individuality’ departs from the norm. The category enacts a certain pragmatics (as against semantics or syntactics) regarding tacit assumptions at work or implicit terms of address, which requires active participation by a thinking subject charged with discerning individuality (which bars resort to explicit rules). The category reflexively implicates the user even in presuming an objective context. ‘Individuality’ should not be confused with ‘individualism,’ wholly distinct in origin. Moreover, Hegel’s Aesthetics embraces a paradoxical anachronism. Like ‘art’ itself, ‘individuality’ emerged as an essentially modern category, though one transferred to the past and to distant cultures. ER -