Ausência e espectro dos jacobinos negros, o terror e o fanatismo na história hegeliana

In this paper we seek to analyze the reasons why the Haitian Revolution lacks a conceptually explicit place in Hegelian philosophy of World History, despite directly interpellating the modes of historical, political, economic, and cultural representation of global identities at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries. Unlike Susan Buck-Morss’s celebrated thesis, our position, which we hope to approach from a broad historical and philosophical perspective, is that not only does the Haitian Revolution not have a relevant place in Hegelian philosophy, nor does it influence its categorial development, but the very logical composition of Weltgeschichte prevents Hegel from thinking about the concrete processes of transformation that were unleashed in the Caribbean against the contemporary European formulations of the French post-revolutionary period. The anteposition of a Eurocentrically racialized epistemological criterion in the non-materialized analysis of the Revolution and the association of continental and diasporic African culture with a state of infantile development of consciousness are, in our opinion, the reasons why Hegel ultimately evades any concrete approach to the Caribbean geopolitical transformation, and therefore evades any further possibility of rational Verwirklichung of World History beyond the margins of the already established limits of the autoreferring reason.