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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Queering Hegel

three incisions

Joanna Hodge

pp. 39-59

Abstract

The selection of this citation from Feuerbach is designed to suggest that a certain Young Hegelianism, in its dispute over the Hegelian inheritance with more strictly scholarly readings, has already queered Hegel, long before other more obviously queer candidates for the task and the honor can come on the scene: Michel Foucault, for example, or indeed Judith Butler. The embodiment of the philosopher, the diversity of human embodiments queers the model of abstract absolute reason. The writings of Derrida might seem as unlikely a source for a queering Hegel as those of Feuerbach. Certainly, the trajectory of Specters ofMtzrx, The State of the Debt, the Work of "Mourning and the New International (1993), of Politics of Friendship (1994), and of Rogues: Two Essays on Reason (2001)3 looks rather more like an intervention within and on the margins of political theory and political economy, than like contributions to the increasingly sophisticated discussions of gender and queer theory. The argument to be developed here, however, will follow a return from these more recent writings of Jacques Derrida, to propose a re-reading of Glas: What Remains of Absolute Knowing (1974).4 This is designed to demonstrate the radical nature of Derrida's rethinking of politics, and thereby to demonstrate that this text from 1974 affects at least the first stage of queering Hegel.

Publication details

Published in:

Hutchings Kimberly, Pulkkinen Tuija (2010) Hegel's philosophy and feminist thought: beyond Antigone?. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 39-59

Full citation:

Hodge Joanna (2010) „Queering Hegel: three incisions“, In: K. Hutchings & T. Pulkkinen (eds.), Hegel's philosophy and feminist thought, Dordrecht, Springer, 39–59.