Time and Philosophy in Hegel’s 'Phenomenology of Spirit'

Abstract

We want to indicate, in this text, an alternative way of reading and understanding the Hegel’s Phenomenology of spirit. With regard to anthropological-existential reading by Alexandre Kojève and Jean Hyppolite, we agree with Adorno that Phenomenology is not an archetypal history of the human towards the philosopher, nor does it deal with the passage from a common non-philosophical consciousness to the philosophical consciousness itself. Phenomenology’s object would be philosophy itself. Not philosophy in general, but philosophy as German idealism conceives it.