Date of Award
8-2023
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Philosophy
First Advisor
Sebastian Rand
Second Advisor
Eric Wilson
Third Advisor
Edgar Illas
Abstract
This thesis identifies a problem in Hegel’s thought regarding the relationship between time and eternity, and it interprets Heidegger’s and Agamben’s respective work on time as two attempts to resolve it. Time plays a distinct role in the logic of Hegel’s dialectic; specifically, time is identified with the negation of the negation. However, in the Phenomenology of Spirit, the dialectical progression culminates in the Absolute, and the dialectical and temporal manifestation of reality is grasped in its unchanging truth. Time is somehow related to eternity, but Hegel says that eternity is neither something that lies outside of time, nor something that comes after time. Hegel never gives a precise account of this relationship beyond these negative remarks. I interpret Heidegger’s work on temporality and Agamben’s concept of Messianic time as two attempts to clarify the problematic relationship between time and eternity, and I discuss the relative merits of each.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/35687632
Recommended Citation
Bergen, Nicholas, "The Time of Life and the Life of Time: An Articulation of the Problem of Time and Eternity in Hegel and Two Attempts to Resolve it." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2023.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/35687632
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