Transgression, border and metaphysics in doctrine of G.W.F. Hegel

Philosophical searches of Hegel are based on two opposite tendencies. On theone hand, negativity is released from the power of identity and positive presence, negativity has the status of an independent andfundamental vector of life. On the other hand, there is a tendency to submission of negativity to presence, identity, which finally winsand becomes the determining moment of Hegel systems. Kant criticised the content of metaphysics, however, preserving its form - theopposition of the sensually perceived and super-sensual worlds. Criticism of Hegel is directed at this form. The fundamental mistake ofmetaphysics by Hegel is that it takes the finite and the infinite as two extreme terms, as different spheres of being contrary to each other,occurring outside each other's areas, separated by an unsurpassable border. Transcendental infinity is only the result of denying thefinite. Opposing the finite, the infinite is nothing, pure negativity, emptiness. Hegel replaces transcendence as the exit to the beyond bytransgression. Transgression assumes displacement of borders resulting in the transformation of the starting point. For Hegel themovement of transgression, formation is primary, with contrasts being only moments of this formation. There is a neutralization of thetranscendental world: it no more has the independent ontological status, but becomes something to overcome. Neutralization of thetranscendental results in similar neutralization of the immanent - this area of being is also overcome as a moment without independentbeing. At first sight, such a result is close to Nietzsche's thesis on overcoming metaphysics. However, similarity here is only formal.Hegel, preserving the metaphysical tradition going from the antiquity, prioritizes presence and identity, considering formation anddistinction as moments whose movement inevitably results in final identity. Nietzsche, on the contrary, approves formation, believingthat any steady and completed existence is the purely feigned, the platform for even greater differentiation. By Hegel, the identityneutralizing itself is the moment of self-consciousness or spirit as presence (identity) of a higher level than simple definiteness, asunique true presence, original life. By Nietzsche, the identical and the present are the simulation of will to power, which levels anypresence and reveals the formation of surplus, loss, and transgression. Hegel tested the power of transgression as an independent vectorof life on own experience and built a grand system to rescue the breaking and escaping world of identity. Thus, Hegel remains in thesphere of metaphysics of presence and totality, despite the successful destruction of the metaphysical theory of two worlds.

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