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    In this analysis of one of the most difficult and neglected topics in Hegelian studies, Songsuk Susan Hahn tackles the status of contradiction in Hegel's ...
  • Hegel and Nonconceptual Knowledge
    Dissertation, Columbia University. 1995.
    Hegel's most interesting and controversial claims about nonconceptual knowledge arise in contexts of value. This thesis examines Hegel's views in the Phenomenology of Spirit on the relation between nonconceptual and conceptual knowledge, specifically in connection with ancient ethics and aesthetics. My dissertation demonstrates that Hegel's views about nonconceptual knowledge are the basis for a coherent, richly-interconnected theory of expression, representation, action, moral action, interpret…Read more
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    How Can a Sceptic Have a Standard of Taste?
    British Journal of Aesthetics 53 (4): 379-392. 2013.
    Why wasn’t Hume a sceptic about matters of taste? He was a thoroughgoing sceptic about fundamental matters in traditional metaphysics, such as cause, causal necessitation, inductive inferences, the self, even external objects. Yet, without exception, Hume’s aesthetics is read as abruptly reversing his sceptical position and promoting a timeless and objective standard for judging beauty. I reject the dominant approach for displacing the gains of his scepticism. To impute to Hume knowledge of a st…Read more
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    Authenticity and Impersonality in Adorno's Aesthetics
    Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1999 (117): 60-78. 1999.
    The Impossibility of Poetry Adorno's aesthetic theory bears the profound scars of his personal experience of fascism. Even after Auschwitz, he feared that modern bourgeois society is a breeding ground for new forms of fascist terror. It was said that, after Auschwitz, one could no longer write poems. But Adorno insisted that postwar art is an indispensable means for telling the truth about how the social order was fundamentally changed by that catastrophe.1 Not to tell the truth is to be guilty …Read more
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    The latest volume in the Cambridge Histories of Philosophy series, The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century brings together twenty-nine leading experts in the field and covers the years 1790-1870. Their twenty-seven chapters provide a comprehensive survey of the period, organizing the material topically. After a brief editor's introduction, it begins with three chapters surveying the background of nineteenth century philosophy: followed by two on logic and mathematics, two o…Read more
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    Hegel on Saying and Showing
    Journal of Value Inquiry 28 (2): 151-168. 1994.
    Hegel's most interesting and controversial claims about nonconceptual knowledge arise in contexts of value. This paper examines the relation between nonconceptual and conceptual knowledge in Hegel's Phenomenology, specifically in connection with early Greek aesthetics. I take up Hegel's claim that the ancient Greeks expressed in their myths, religious narratives, sculpture, and artistic materials certain high powered philosophical truths which they shouldn't express in words. I raise a paradox a…Read more