Susan Hahn

Contemporary analytic color theorists ask, “Why can’t we see something as both red and green?” Goethe asks instead, “Why does the eye try to see reddish-green in a way not possible in nature?” To explain red-green unity, Goethe drew on idealist elements that took him beyond a pure empiricism. Virtually without exception, what has blocked our view of these idealist elements is a near universal misreading of Goethe as a pure empiricist. Hegel alone saw in Goethe’s red-green color experiments implied idealist elements that called for a different concept of unity. One flexible enough to allow for a concept of sameness that allows for difference. In this, we see an important anticipation of the structure that influenced Hegel’s unity-in-difference principle.

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