A System of Trust? Robert Brandom and Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss Robert B. Brandom’s reading of G. W. F. Hegel, especially his later work, A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology, in order to tackle the question of “trust” as the structure of recognition. First, we reconstruct Brandom’s reading of Hegel’s philosophy as a form of “social recognitive pragmatics” with a “historical recollective account of conceptual content”, by which he aims at a re-definition of practical normativity based upon trust. Then, we examine his notion of trust as the ground for a future, post-modern society. Finally, we point at some difficulties concerning Brandom’s notion of post-modern age and examine the concept of trust as key to the modern understanding of social bonds.

U ovom tekstu diskutujemo Brendomovo čitanje Hegela, posebno njegovo novije delo, A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology, da bismo razmotrili pitanje „poverenja“ kao strukture priznanja. Na početku rekonstruišemo Brendomovo čitanje Hegelove filozofije kao oblika „pragmatike društvenog priznanja“ uz „objašnjenje pojmovnog sadržaja zasnovanog na istorijskom pamćenju“, kojim on nastoji da ponudi redefiniciju praktične normativnosti utemeljene na poverenju. Potom razmatramo njegovo shvatanje poverenja kao temelja budućeg, postmodernog društva. Na kraju skrećemo pažnju na izvesne poteškoće u vezi s Brendomovim pojmom postmodernog doba i razmatramo pojam poverenja kao ključa za moderno razumevanje društvenih veza.