Hegel e la poesia ebraica. Tra ricezione e speculazione

The paper aims to demonstrate the theoretical importance of the Hegelian reflection on the role and the status of Jewish poetry in the Lectures on Fine Arts. It focuses on the differences shown by the presentation of the Jewish Poetry in the Nachschriften and Mitschriften. Indeed, Jewish poetry is sometimes a moment of the symbolic form of art, sometimes a moment of the classical one. Even more it is considered as poetry and in the meantime as prose. Jewish poetry seems therefore to be a critical moment in the Hegelian system. The essay tries then to find the reason why this paradoxical status takes place in the sources from which Hegel borrows his interpretation of Jewish poetry. Even if the analysed net of historical relationships could be explanatory, it is not sufficient. In order to illustrate the significance of the Hegelian confrontation with Jewish poetry it is necessary to clear up that Hegel takes charge of this cultural heritage in a speculative, philosophical way, which is to say that the paper reconstructs the way the Old Testament gains by Hegel a function in the relationship between Vorstellung and Darstellung, sensible language and conceptual language. I wish thence to show that Jewish poetry, in the context of the Lectures on Fine Arts, deals with the survival of the themes taken into consideration in the speculative sentence (Phenomenology of Spirit).