Recollective Pulse of the Absolute: Erinnerung in Hegel’s Philosophical System

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2026-8-20

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Uçar, Meryem

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This dissertation proposes a systematic reinterpretation of recollection (Erinnerung) as the fundamental speculative rhythm animating Hegel’s system as a whole. Moving beyond conventional accounts that reduce recollection to a psychological faculty or a motif isolated within the final pages of the Phenomenology of Spirit, this study demonstrates that Erinnerung operates as an immanent ontological movement. Through this movement, the Hegelian system continuously gathers its determinations, folds back into itself, contracts historical experience into conceptual necessity, and reopens toward renewed self-differentiation. By taking seriously Hegel’s structural motif of a “circle of circles,” the disertation reconstructs the core systematic transitions—from the Phenomenology of Spirit to the Science of Logic, from Logic to Nature, and from Nature through the spheres of Spirit—as differentiated expressions of a single recollective drive. Within this architecture, Nature functions as a necessary phase of methodological forgetting, whereas Subjective, Objective, and Absolute Spirit articulate deepening stages through which spatial and historical externality is interiorized into conceptual freedom. Ultimately, the dissertation argues that recollection is neither a passive retention of the past nor a static principle, but the living pulse that preserves the systemic vitality of Hegel’s philosophy by continually converting moments of completion into fresh beginnings.

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Hegel, Recollection, Erinnerung, Speculative Rhythm, Circle of Circles, Recollected Immediacy, Logic, Nature, Spirit

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/120082

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis