Posts Tagged ‘Hegel’

Drawing the dialectic

This is brilliant.  I want some shoes of self-consciousness.  And a hat like that.

Hegel makes some interesting comments, distinctions and criticisms with respect to the respective domains of history and philosophy in the Introduction to the Philosophy of Right:
s3. Montesquieu proclaimed the true historical view, the genuinely philosophical position, namely that legislation both in general and in its particular provisions is to be treated not as something isolated [...]

The Hegel Society of America has a notice on its website, advertising the sale of a first edition of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.  A spare $15,000 US, anyone?  It just passed its 200th birthday last year.  That’s $75 for every year.  Which really, makes sense, if you pay something like $75 for a new hardback [...]

Fifth day
My apologies for the delay in finishing off my series on Agamben’s Time That Remains. But the break was worth it to slow down and think about it a bit more. I’ll try and reduce the commentary and increase the questions now.

The fifth day focuses on the words Eis euaggelion theou, [...]

Reading a book review of Judith Butler’s in History and Theory on a book about Hegel in France in the 20th C., I was struck by just how important he was, particularly for the generation of scholars who were Derrida’s teachers in Paris.  Just think, Jean Wahl, Jean Hyppolite, Alexandre Kojeve… So I went to [...]