Notes of a Wayward Son

IF 0.3 3区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY

IDEALISTIC STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.5840/idstudies2021623129

Ryan J. Johnson, Nathan C. Jones

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This paper transforms elements of Hegel’s thought into antiracism through the work of James Baldwin in three Acts. Act One offers a Hegelian Account of Honesty that is structurally inspired by “conscience” from his Phenomenology of Spirit. Honesty has two, seemingly paradoxical, dimensions. To address the unacknowledged whiteness in Hegel, we turn to Baldwin in Act Two. Baldwin deepens and problematizes Hegelian Honesty through a conceptual diagnosis of “double misrecognition”: the first is the misrecognition of Blackness as inferior, the second is the misrecognition of whiteness as superior. Act Three articulates how the structure of whiteness forecloses Schuld and shame by connecting this dual foreclosure to the two dimensions of Hegelian honesty and Baldwin’s diagnosis of double misrecognition. We conclude by formulating a sketch of “antiracist idealism” as version of what the Germans call Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung, that is, doing the hard, uncomfortable labor of comprehending how the present is not separate from but completely composed of old scars, wounds, violence, and atrocities. Antiracist idealism enables us to both learn from yet also challenge canonical idealism through contemporary forms of antiracism.

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任性儿子的笔记

本文通过詹姆斯·鲍德温的三幕作品，将黑格尔的思想元素转化为反种族主义。第一幕提供了黑格尔对诚实的描述，其结构灵感来自他的《精神现象学》中的“良心”。诚实有两个看似矛盾的维度。为了说明黑格尔未被承认的白人，我们转向第二幕中的鲍德温。鲍德温通过对“双重误认”的概念性诊断，深化并质疑黑格尔的诚实主义:一是将黑人误认为劣等，二是将白人误认为优越。第三幕阐明了白的结构是如何通过将这种双重止赎与黑格尔诚实的两个维度以及鲍德温对双重误认的诊断联系起来，从而止赎了舒尔德和羞耻。最后，我们将“反种族主义理想主义”概括为德国人所说的“Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung”的版本，也就是说，做艰难而不舒服的工作，理解当下是如何与旧的伤疤、创伤、暴力和暴行分开的，而是完全由它们组成的。通过当代形式的反种族主义，反种族主义理想主义使我们既可以学习也可以挑战正统理想主义。

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期刊介绍： Idealistic Studies provides a peer-reviewed forum for the discussion of themes and topics that relate to the tradition and legacy of philosophical Idealism. Established in 1971 as a vehicle for American Personalism and post-Kantian Idealism, the journal"s purview now includes historically earlier expressions, as well as the inheritance of that past in the developments of late 19th to mid-20th century philosophy. The journal has also become a venue for a number of philosophical movements that share Idealism in their genealogies, including Phenomenology, Neo-Kantianism, Historicism, Hermeneutics, Life Philosophy, Existentialism, and Pragmatism.