Kafka, Aristófanes y las Lecciones de Estética de Hegel. El espectro de una doble forma de nihilismo ontológico-político que recorre Occidente desde Grecia hasta nuestra contemporaneidad.
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2025
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Sánchez Domínguez, A. (2025): “Kafka, Aristófanes y las Lecciones de Estética de Hegel. El espectro de una doble forma de nihilismo ontológico-político que recorre Occidente desde Grecia hasta nuestra contemporaneidad”. Hybris: revista de filosofía, 16(1), -pp. 13-33.
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Una doble imposibilidad de la comunidad política ―polis en sentido clásico o res pública en sentido moderno, respectivamente― aflora en los textos de Aristófanes y Kafka. La posibilidad de tener una suerte de predicados compartidos ―naturales en sentido clásico, formal-normativos en sentido moderno― en torno a los que articular una comunidad política de futuro es el punto de partida necesario para observar las tensiones que atraviesan dos mundos en crisis, muy diferentes, pero en los que la posibilidad de tener un horizonte de sentido unitario parece desvanecerse en el aire. Partiendo de las Lecciones de Estética de Hegel y del lugar que este otorga a Aristófanes, en este trabajo se pretende observar hasta qué punto ese lugar podría ser otorgado, por sustitución, a Kafka. Semejante aproximación permitiría arrojar luz sobre la recepción, valga decir, cómica en sentido técnico, de Kafka, y una recalibración del lugar de esa “comedia” en tiempos de crisis.
A double impossibility of the political community —polis in the classical sense or state community in the modern sense— emerges respectively in the texts of Aristophanes and Kafka. The possibility of having a sort of shared predicates — natural in the classical sense, formal-normative in the modern sense— around which to articulate a future political community is the necessary starting point for observing the tensions that traverse two worlds in crisis, very different, but in which the possibility of having a unified horizon of meaning seems to vanish into thin air. Starting from Hegel's Aesthetics Lectures and the place he assigns to Aristophanes, the aim of this work is to observe to what extent that place could be assigned, by substitution, to Kafka. Such an approach would shed light on the reception, technically speaking, comedic in Kafka's sense, and a recalibration.
A double impossibility of the political community —polis in the classical sense or state community in the modern sense— emerges respectively in the texts of Aristophanes and Kafka. The possibility of having a sort of shared predicates — natural in the classical sense, formal-normative in the modern sense— around which to articulate a future political community is the necessary starting point for observing the tensions that traverse two worlds in crisis, very different, but in which the possibility of having a unified horizon of meaning seems to vanish into thin air. Starting from Hegel's Aesthetics Lectures and the place he assigns to Aristophanes, the aim of this work is to observe to what extent that place could be assigned, by substitution, to Kafka. Such an approach would shed light on the reception, technically speaking, comedic in Kafka's sense, and a recalibration.









