Modernidad y razón.

El joven Hegel entre Spinoza y Kant

Abstract

This text deals with the comparison of Hegel with Spinoza’s philosophy in the early Jena years. As it has been said, Spinoza is, for Hegel, an antidote to what he calls “reflective philosophies subjectivity”. At the same time, my aim is to show that Hegel not only reads Spinoza against Kant – as against Fichte and Jacobi – but he also reads him through Kant (and through Jacobi), that is, through the problematics opened up by critical philosophy; and that this reading entails a “torsion” of Spinoza’s philosophy in a key that is alien to it. Above all, as I will try to show, the interpretation of Spinoza through Kant becomes evident in the reading of Spinozian concept of substance in “organic” terms, that is, in the terms of cause-effect reciprocity or whole-part reversibility; concepts, these, used by Kant to think of the organised beings of nature as natural ends.