Hegel’s Enlightenment and the Dialectics of Vulva

Abstract

This essay is based not on academic research, but on the sum of perso-nal, collective, political and philosophical experiences that someway or another relate to the reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit , deve-loped in the course of the seminar that I have been holding in St. Petersburg for several years now. Being a lecturer on Hegel was my dream since the days of youth, when I read Alexander Kojeve, and I used the first institutional opportunity to engage myself in this enterprise. The seminar began in 2015 as a part of the university program, for which I was reading authoritative commentaries, preparing introductory lec-tures and remarks, although I had never been properly trained for such instruction, my command in German was close to zero, and my entire competence in the German idealism rather basic. Gradually, the seminar became less and less academic, until got eventually from and an as a kind of amateur artists, and other members of the public, which, due also an informal circle friends. on the floor”—on some fine morning , where the noontime is bloodless and when the infection has permeated every organ of spiritual life. Only then does memory alone still preserve the dead mode of spirit’s previous shape as a vanished history (although exactly how it does this nobody knows), and the new serpent of wisdom, which is elevated for adoration, has in this way painlessly only shed its withered skin.