La contradicción de la razón consigo misma reflexiones en torno a la concepción de la locura en la antropología de Hegel

the radical distinction between reason and madness that according to foucault, would characterize the philosophy of the enlightenment, cannot be found in hegels conception, for whom madness is a "privilege" of a rational being. more than that, madness represents for him on the one hand, a "necessary" stage in the formation of the human mind and on the other hand, it reveals essential aspects of normal conciousness. in this article i deal mainly with the relation between madness and consciousness. for hegel madness is not synonymous of irrationality but an unsolved conflict of reason with itself.