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This chapter examines the systematic and thematic extension that the concept of Trieb receives in Hegel’s mature philosophy, that is, throughout a system conceived as the dialectical connection of a logic, a philosophy of nature, and a philosophy of spirit. For Hegel, the concept of Trieb is no longer the specific and exclusive province of a philosophy of nature, a psychology, or a moral philosophy. While crucial in the thematization of these fields, the notion of Trieb becomes a logical and methodological feature of dialectical processes. The chapter brings this latter point to the fore discussing the occurrence of the concept in central passages of Hegel’s Logic.
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See, famously, the case of the philosophy of spirit in relation to Aristotle.
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Think here of Hegel’s programmatic transformation of “substance” into “subject”.
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See Nuzzo (2018a).
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All translations from Hegel are my own.
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For a comprehensive account of the method, see Nuzzo (2018b).
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TW 6, 553: “Es ist dabei erstens mit dem Anfange anzufangen”.
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I discuss this point extensively in Nuzzo (2012, chapter 4).
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See for this Bonito Oliva (2002).
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———. 2018a. Wirklichkeit and Wirkung: Hegel’s Logic of Action. In Wirklichkeit: Beiträge zu einem Schlüsselbegriff der hegelschen Philosophie, ed. Luca Illetterati and Francesca Menegoni, 207–226. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann.
———. 2018b. Approaching Hegel’s Logic, Obliquely: Melville, Molière, Beckett. Albany: State University of New York Press.
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Nuzzo, A. (2022). The Trieb of Dialectic: Systematic and Thematic Extension of the Concept of Trieb in Hegel. In: Kisner, M., Noller, J. (eds) The Concept of Drive in Classical German Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84160-7_14
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