Time and bad infinity: unilateral negativity in Hegel

• Grant number: 24/20000-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2025
• End date: December 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - Metaphysics
• Principal Investigator: Luiz Sérgio Repa
• Grantee: Henrique Martins Tragtenberg
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The project aims to understand the amplitude of the negative form present in two determinations of Hegel's philosophy: bad infinity and time. This form of negativity is characterized as an unresolved contradiction, a unilateral negativity. The connection between the two determinations is based on two records of Hegel's work: (i) the examination of the notion of bad infinity in the logic of being; (ii) the exposition of time in philosophy of nature. Therefore, the description of the relation allows to present the structures of a specific negativity posited by the speculative discourse.