Heidegger's confrontation with Hegel in the lecture of 1930-1931: the «restricted» concept of being and the «ontotheology» in the Phenomenology of Spirit

Abstract

This paper undertakes a critical analysis of the philosophical stance that Heidegger counterposes to Hegel in the Freiburg lecture of the winter semester of 1930-1931. To do so, it synthesizes their points of encounter and locates them within the framework of Heidegger's writings of the same period. In this way, the concept of «ontotheology», as a diagnosis of Hegelian philosophy, is embedded in Heidegger's other more familiar conceptual schemes, such as the «ontological difference» and the critique of the «metaphysics of presence». This provides the reader the access to the interpretation that Heidegger carries out of Hegel, thus approaching a possible evaluation on this interpretation.