ABSTRACT
This chapter considers more closely whether general suggestion of Klaus Vieweg can be applied to the method and system of the Phanomenologie and whether it produces a significant contribution to solving the problem of unity in this work. As Campbell emphasises, the problem of multidimensional temporality affects not only the unity of the work and the theory of time, but also the identity of the person himself — Tristram Shandy. It is precisely the connection between history, time and the identity of the consciousness that can be justly asserted for Hegel's Phanomenologie. The consciousness experiences the negative variations in reality's process of becoming as the passing of time. Tristram Shandy and the humorous novel around 1800 may be considered literary points of reference for Hegel's Phanomenologie des Geistes, for they express a view on the consciousness that in a certain sense goes beyond scepticism.
