VICTOR TAVARES BERTUCCI

Through Hegel’s self-insertion in a theoretical debate between both his former colleagues Schelling and Hölderlin in the wider field of late eighteenth century German Idealism, one seeks to demonstrate how the three fragments that inaugurate the philosopher’s Frankfurt oeuvre constitute a logical base for the construction of his own metaphysics as a critique of representational thinking and of reflexive understanding. The exposition of this critique, aided by the restitution of the young Hegel’s intellectual context, allows the basis of an interpretation of his Frankfurt works as the elaboration of a concept of Religion as an ascension beyond reflection, only to show itself wholly determined by representational thinking by the time of his departure to Jena (1800).