Hegel's Unconscious: Analyzing Matter in the Philosophy of Nature

ii Acknowledgments iii Table of Contents iv Introduction 1 0.1 Other Approaches to Hegel 2 0.2 Toward Hegel’s Unconscious Poetics 6 Chapter 1 13 1 The Double Abstraction 13 1.1 The Mechanics of Abstraction 13 1.2 The Abstractions of Mechanics 18 1.3 Text and Reality 27 Chapter 2 31 2 Light and the Elements, or Phantasm and Reverie 31 2.1 Light 31 2.1.1 Light and Phenomenology 32 2.1.2 Fiat Lux 35 2.1.3 Light and Reflection 38 2.1.4 Phantasmatological Reading and the Semiotic 42 2.2 Meteorology 45 2.2.1 The Four Elements 45 2.2.2 General Economy, Metaphor, and Meteorology 49 2.2.3 Matter and the Unconscious According to Bachelard 51 Chapter 3 54 3 The Organism: Reality as Allegory 54