The Hegel's “Phenomenology of the Spirit" and the Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship"

Abstract

The current paper shows the nexus that involve the self-conscious and how this one serves as point of inflexion to the constitutive movement of the spirit as the authentic subject of the hegelian philosophy. Considering that the writing of the romance is not a “continuum”, but a construction produced in the movement continuity in its discontinuities and ruptures of its permanence, a connection between the “Phenomenology of the spirit” and the Goethe's romance “Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship” is tried, highlighting the following aspects: 1) the existence of a claire differentiation between the hegelian writing style and the romanescian literature structure; 2) the self-conscious itinerary mimes the one represented by the character Wilhelm Meister, which seeks for the truth around himself; 3) the scientific nature of the hegelian project deserves to be flexible because the movement of the discovery realized by the conscious presumes the mistake experience.