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natlib91's review against another edition
3.0
jameson reads hegel against the grain here, the notion that the phenomenology forms a bildungsroman that walks us from the most primeval forms of sense-data to world-spirit in the abstract, that synthesis can be read as a progessive eventuality, are repudiated in favour of a reading of the phenomenology as a dialectics of negation, a critique of origins, a theory of language as a symptom of modern alienation and all the familiar bugbears of contemporary critical theory. this is all proven and argued in typical jamesonian style, it is virtuoso performance, but it's also slightly irritating that jameson is riffing rather than reading hegel as hegel in himself. maybe i'm coming to jameson for the wrong reasons, but i would love if a brain as big as his would take the time to help me grasp some of the more involved aspects of hegel's philosophy rather than read hegel as jameson avant la lettre
ilchinealach's review against another edition
3.0
jameson reads hegel against the grain here, the notion that the phenomenology forms a bildungsroman that walks us from the most primeval forms of sense-data to world-spirit in the abstract, that synthesis can be read as a progessive eventuality, are repudiated in favour of a reading of the phenomenology as a dialectics of negation, a critique of origins, a theory of language as a symptom of modern alienation and all the familiar bugbears of contemporary critical theory. this is all proven and argued in typical jamesonian style, it is virtuoso performance, but it's also slightly irritating that jameson is riffing rather than reading hegel as hegel in himself. maybe i'm coming to jameson for the wrong reasons, but i would love if a brain as big as his would take the time to help me grasp some of the more involved aspects of hegel's philosophy rather than read hegel as jameson avant la lettre
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