Ricardo Crissiuma is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). He earned his PhD at Campinas State University (2017), with a one-year FAPESP-funded internship at Humboldt Universität. He is a member of the Democracy Nucleus of CEBRAP and is currently vice president of the Brazilian Hegel Society. In 2023, he was awarded a short-term CAPES-PRInt fellowship to conduct postdoctoral research at the Forschungszentrum für Klassische Deutsche Philosophie. He is now working on: i) the formation of the young Hegel’s thought; ii) the idea of social rights in the Marxist tradition; and iii) the appropriation of Hegel’s concept of Bildung in the contemporary philosophical debate.
Prof. Dr. Ricardo Crissiuma
Senior Fellow
Period at the center: April 25-Februar 26
Research Project: From the ‘enlightenment of the common man’ until the ‘need of philosophy’: the Young Hegel’s Formation.
Email: r_crissiuma@yahoo.com.br
WebsiteResearch Project
From the ‘enlightenment of the common man’ until the ‘need of philosophy’: the Young Hegel’s Formation.
This research aims to investigate the relationship between Hegel’s project as a schoolboy — an enlightenment of the common man, humbly sketched in a diary entry from 1786 — and the aspiration expressed fourteen years later, when he was about to move to Jena, of accomplishing a scientific philosophical system. The core of this research is a conceptual and historical analysis of Hegel’s texts and fragments from 1786 to 1800, thus encompassing his path from Stuttgart to Frankfurt. The results of this analysis shall shed light on what was left behind and what remains in the passage from Hegel’s ideal of an enlightenment of the common man to the first outlines of his philosophical system. Two questions will thus guide this endeavor: 1) To what extent is the birth of Hegel’s philosophical thought driven by a project of enlightening the common man? 2) How much of this project remains after the announcement of his “conversion” to science? The provisional hypotheses are: a) The young Hegel grounds his project in the diagnosis that enlightenment, when restricted to the understanding (Verstand), creates social divisions that threaten the established social order. b) The core response to this tendency is to develop a complex and sophisticated project of a new sociability — first through a popular religion, and later through a Philosophy of Right.
Selected publications
Articles
Reconciliação e libertação: potenciais e limites do núcleo do programa da filosofia prática hegeliana. in: Congresso Hegel, ed. Martins, L. F. B (Campinas: Phi, forthcoming)
Formação e Liberdade nas Linhas Fundamentais da Filosofia do Direito de G.W.F. Hegel. in: Conceito e Ação ed. Silva, F.G.; Miranda, M. (Curitiba: Kotter, forthcoming)
O interesse por emancipação na teoria crítica de Axel Honneth: da formação da identidade social às disputas pelas interpretações normativas. In: Os Caminhos da Crítica em Axel Honneth. ed. Werle, Denilson; Helfer, Inácio; Teixeira, Mariana; Tidre, Polyana. (Org.). (Caxias do Sul: UCS, 2024), 101-148.
“A conciliação entre história e saber absoluto na primeira concepção hegeliana de filosofia: em torno da articulação dos conceitos pressuposto, introdução e carecimento da filosofia”. In: Revista Eletrônica de Estudos Hegelianos, v. 14 (2017), 209—238.
The young Hegel: Tensions and articulations between philosophy and diagnosis of time. In: Hegel-Jahrbuch, ed. (Berlin: de Gruyter, v. 14, Issue 1, 2014), 12—17.