Hegel’in Aufhebung’u: Beoning (2018) Filminde Olmayanı Aramak
Hegel’s Aufhebung: Searching The Nonexistent In Burning (2018) Movie

Summary/Abstract: Hegel considers aufhebung as the most speculative concept among philosophical concepts. He uses this concept, especially when defining dialectics within dialectics. According to him, aufhebung is the movement of the dialectic. In Turkish, aufhebung is defined as “eliminating”. This concept should not be confused with nullity. Canceling (aufheben) means two things: On the one hand, it means cutting, finishing, destroying, on the other hand, keeping, and storing. What disappears does not lose its existence. The new form, which replaces the eliminated, does not deny the existence of the old. The precisely existing form keeps existing with its disappearance. Hegel’s dialectic comes up with Burning (Burning, Beoning, 2018) with the concept of aufhebung. The movie is adapted from Haruki Murakami’s story called Barn Burning (2010). Moreover, in the movie, there are traces of William Faulkner’s story, Barn Burning (1937). Burning draws characters and the audience into a growing mystery throughout the story. What creates the mystery is the disappeared and the act disappearing itself. The film builds its entire story on disappearance. The disappeared are reflected to the audience as if they never existed. The absence of something in the movie accounts for the existence of new things. The philosophical basis of existence being born from absence is aufhebung. Just like aufhebung, it replaces something new that disappears in Burning and makes its presence feel heavier. Although there are disappearances and perishments in the story, there is actually nothing that disappears, the existence of the eliminated, the disappeared are hidden behind the absence. The study aims to explain the existence of those that perish without any meaning of any sort through Hegel’s aufhebung and further than that, looking for a meaning for nullity using aufhebung.

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