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Reason, Religion, and Sexual Difference: Resources for a Feminist Philosophy of Religion in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Kimerer L. Lamothe
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Abstract

Reading Hegel's 1827 Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion alongside his Phenomenology of Spirit, I argue that his vision for becoming a self-conscious subject—or seeing (oneself as) “spirit”—requires taking responsibility for the insight that every act of reason expresses an experience of sexual difference. It entails working to bring into being communities whose conceptions of gender and the absolute realize this idea.

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Hypatia , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , Winter 2005 , pp. 120 - 149
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Copyright © 2005 by Hypatia, Inc.

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