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Ingrid Vendrell Ferran on “Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s Work in 20 Volumes” - Aesthetics for Birds
This is entry in #64 in our ongoing 100 Philosophers, 100 Artworks, 100 Words Series. Philosopher: Íngrid Vendrell Ferran, (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) Artwork: Dieter Roth, 1974, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s Work in 20 Volumes Words: This provocative “neo-dadaist” work is one of the “literature sausages” (Literaturwurst) elaborated by Roth between 1961 and 1974, using traditional sausages recipes but replacing the meat with paper. In this case, the 20 sausages in question have been fabricated using Hegel´s collected works. How would you feel about seeing the philosophical work of an admired philosopher transformed in sausages? What is the sense of such a metamorphosis? In my view, the work suggests that some of our deepest philosophical thoughts start as “gut feelings” and have to be somehow “digested” in order to be understood.
Rebecca Millsop