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In this episode, we continue our series on dialectics by completely losing our minds talking about Hegel. We break through Kant’s critical prohibition on speculative metaphysics and grasp the in-itself as the movement of dialectical negativity. We realize the unity of opposites. We are seized by the necessity of the absolute Idea in history. It’s a banger, folks. In retrospect, it couldn’t have been any other way.

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References:

G.W.F. Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right, trans. H.B. Nisbet, ed. Allen W. Wood (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011).

G.W.F. Hegel, Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Basic Outline, trans. and ed. Klaus Brinkmann and Daniel O. Dahlstrom (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Music: Vintage Memories by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com

Comments

Drew Levanti

thank you guys! I did so much 'reading around' philosophy in social sciences/critical theory in college and your work is helping me realize what was actually going on.

Charles Conway

"[Hegel] thinks that part of the reason we should do this rational reconstruction, this philosophical labor, is that it shows us where our abstractions are getting in our own way." You all are doing such an amazing job of invigorating subjects with clarity and meaning that otherwise often feel gate-kept behind so much jargon and half-explication. Really loving this podcast...

Elliot Swain

This was a ton of fun and full of insights. Do you think you guys might ever do an Adorno episode? I only ask because I think Adorno’s “negative dialectics” offers its own unique approach to dialectical thinking and was pretty influential on the course taken by the left in the postwar era, whether good or bad certainly well within the domain of thinking about the relationship between leftist politics/political action + philosophy

Peter Hillson

Really enjoyed this episode and got me thinking that y'all should do an episode on Alexandre Kojève's reading of Hegel! I think Kojève tries to work through/past the conservatism of Hegel's project that you identified, in particular via attention to the Master-Slave dialectic. Whether this attempt is successful/worthwhile might be an interesting topic for discussion (especially since Kojève seems to be attempting a variation on Marxist dialectics, but one that remains grounded in Hegel's idealism).