Spirit and Social Death: Hegel, Historical Life and Genocide

IF 0.7 Q4 SOCIAL WORK

Ethics and Social Welfare Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI:10.1080/17496535.2021.1970789

Tom Bunyard

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This essay proposes that the interpretations of Hegelian philosophy advanced by Gillian Rose and Robert Pippin may be relevant to the theorisation of genocide. This argument is presented via a discussion of Claudia Card’s contention that genocide can be understood as a form of ‘social death’. According to Card, genocide damages or eradicates what she calls ‘social vitality’: inter-generational social relations that animate, articulate and characterise social groups, and which give meaning and context to individual lives. The essay points out limitations in Card’s claims and proposes that Pippin and Rose could help to respond to those problems. It argues that Pippin’s reading can develop Card’s ideas regarding the collective ‘life’ of groups, and that Rose’s interpretation can remedy difficulties posed by Card’s conception of evil. The essay suggests that, when taken together, this combination of ideas may point towards a means of thinking about Hegel that serves to foreground the pertinence of past disasters to any critical assessment of the present.

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精神与社会死亡：黑格尔、历史生活与种族灭绝

摘要本文认为吉莉安·罗斯和罗伯特·皮平对黑格尔哲学的解释可能与种族灭绝的理论化有关。这一论点是通过对克劳迪娅·卡德的论点的讨论提出的，她认为种族灭绝可以被理解为一种“社会死亡”的形式。根据卡德的说法，种族灭绝破坏或根除了她所谓的“社会活力”:代际社会关系，使社会群体充满活力，表达和特征，并赋予个人生活意义和背景。本文指出了卡德主张的局限性，并提出皮平和罗斯可以帮助回应这些问题。它认为皮平的阅读可以发展卡德关于群体集体“生活”的想法，而罗斯的解释可以弥补卡德的邪恶概念所带来的困难。这篇文章认为，当这些观点结合在一起时，可能会指向一种思考黑格尔的方法，这种方法有助于突出过去灾难对当前任何批判性评估的相关性。

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Ethics and Social Welfare SOCIAL WORK-

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