Sfera pubblica e coscienza
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Volker Gerhardt [1]
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[1] Humbolt Universität zu Berlin
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- Localización: Giornale di Metafisica: revista bimestrale di filosofia, ISSN 0017-0372, Vol. 36, Nº. 2, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Metafisica in Jacques Derrida / coord. por Leonardo Samonà), págs. 453-470
- Idioma: italiano
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Resumen
By presenting Consciousness as an originally public faculty in human life, in this essay Volker Gerhardt inverts the thesis of the public sphere as a political form of Consciousness. With the introduction of the transcendental role of the public sphere of Consciousness, the argumentation allows an access, on the one hand, to its intermediate position in life’s relationships and, on the other, to its original constitution. As an originally objective and public faculty for the common reference to a recognized world, Consciousness is not a private organ, but a universal form of communication. Similar to technical, political and cultural institutions, this Consciousness as homo publicus has peculiar organizing principles, binding persons both to objective common material things and to subjective common motivations. From this properly cultural role of mediation, arises the internal constitution of Consciousness. Referring to theories of the triangular structure of Consciousness (Cassirer and Davidson) Gerhardt returns to underline his theory of its sociomorphic and more specifically politomorphic (politomorph) character. This Consciousness shows an ontological space of natural organizing forms. By mediating individuality and universality, it grounds the possibility of technique and culture, producing spaces of common actions and preserving at the same time the sphere of individuality. In this sense, Consciousness is the transcendental condition to establish not only Politics and Law, but Thought itself.
