Whoever has carefully read our title will undoubtedly evoke that of that masterpiece of Philosophy that is Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. We do not mean that Hegel neglects the "we", but rather that in some sense he "deduces" it in experience, or supposes it as the phenomenological "we", which knows the necessary logic of the whole project, which is "science of the experience of consciousness. For Hegel, the "we" is not the starting point, but appears in the unfolding of theoretical consciousness (as self-understanding) as self-consciousness, to finally know itself to be reason, which manifests itself as the historical realization of that reason, which Hegel calls "spirit", in the immediate substantiality of ethics. The problem lies in the arbitrary universalization of the self that language produces at the very beginning of the phenomenological itinerary as presented by Hegel. Face...read more