Tragedy and pardon in Phenomenology of mind: towards a re lectura of hegelian thinking on community

Abstract

The article proposes an alternative lecture of Hegelian thinking on community. Splitting up from traditional interpretations that has read the Hegelian ethical and political thinking within a totalitarian conception of the being-in-common, where the definitive reconciliation of differences is wanted, it shows that how, for Hegel, the community is rather crossed by a radical otherness that makes impossible to conceive the political and the common space starting from this idea of reconciliation. This is done through a lecture of two figures of the “Spirit” Chapter in the Phenomenology: the tragic split up of classic Greek world (illuminated Sophocles’ Antigone tragedy) and the figure of confession and pardon whereupon Hegel close that chapter.