G.W.F. Hegel. Ricci, V. In Bernecker, S. & Michaelian, K., editors, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory, pages 487–495. Routledge, New York, 2017.
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[first paragraph] Recollection and memory are not among the themes Hegel is mostly famous for. However, this does not mean that his discussion of recollection and memory cannot be of interest for a philosophical reflection on these topics. On the contrary, as I aim to show in this chapter, recollection in particular plays an important role within the system, although its significance has not always been recognized by the scholarship. This might be partially explained by the fact that there is no single systematic locus where Hegel discusses it: rather, recollection appears at several points within the system itself, usually crucial points of transition between different parts of it. A careful examination of such places can illuminate the vital role recollection plays for spirit's freedom and actualization and for the attainment of objective thought. Recollection, as I will show, is a key function in that it allows spirit to internalize the spatio-temporal determinateness of the content of its experience and to attain the stage of thought (in the Psychology) and the stage of the concept in its purity (in the transition between the Phenomenology and the Logic), that is, the content of experience that has been purified by its determinateness. In what follows, I present what I consider the three most important discussions of recollection and memory in Hegel's work, namely those we can find in the Psychology, the Phenomenology of Spirit, and the Logic. My aim is to illuminate the function of these concepts in Hegel's system and to show how this task can both support a better understanding of Hegel's philosophy as a whole and offer some insights to a general philosophical reflection on memory as such.
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abstract = {[first paragraph] Recollection and memory are not among the themes Hegel is mostly famous for. However, this does not mean that his discussion of recollection and memory cannot be of interest for a philosophical reflection on these topics. On the contrary, as I aim to show in this chapter, recollection in particular plays an important role within the system, although its significance has not always been recognized by the scholarship. This might be partially explained by the fact that there is no single systematic locus where Hegel discusses it: rather, recollection appears at several points within the system itself, usually crucial points of transition between different parts of it. A careful examination of such places can illuminate the vital role recollection plays for spirit's freedom and actualization and for the attainment of objective thought. Recollection, as I will show, is a key function in that it allows spirit to internalize the spatio-temporal determinateness of the content of its experience and to attain the stage of thought (in the Psychology) and the stage of the concept in its purity (in the transition between the Phenomenology and the Logic), that is, the content of experience that has been purified by its determinateness. In what follows, I present what I consider the three most important discussions of recollection and memory in Hegel's work, namely those we can find in the Psychology, the Phenomenology of Spirit, and the Logic. My aim is to illuminate the function of these concepts in Hegel's system and to show how this task can both support a better understanding of Hegel's philosophy as a whole and offer some insights to a general philosophical reflection on memory as such.},
address = {New York},
author = {Ricci, Valentina},
booktitle = {The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory},
editor = {Bernecker, Sven and Michaelian, Kourken},
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pages = {487--495},
publisher = {Routledge},
title = {{G.W.F. Hegel}},
year = {2017}
}

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