Berner, Christian

Becoming the Other: Michael Theunissen’s Interpretation of Hegel - 2025.


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We attempt to clarify the issues at stake in Michael Theunissen’s interpretation of Hegel’s logic. In the Science of Logic, he brings to light not only a critical presentation of metaphysics, but also an outline of social theory. Subjective logic, which is the goal of logic, aims, according to Theunissen, to develop a theory of absolute relationality, which paves the way for dialogicity and communicative freedom. In the process of developing the thought of the Other, he shows how the relationship to the Other can be exempted from both relations of indifference and relations of domination.