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Re: Hegel Today

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Post by Emma_Goldman »

culi wrote: post #2

Continental philosophy is making a comeback! The kids love Žižek

'Continental' philosophy never went anywhere, it was only sidelined among certain parts of the Anglophone academy. The analytic-continental distinction is nonsensical to begin with, given that one is a style, the other a geography.

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Post by bluquark »

For those new to Hegel, The Accessible Hegel by philosopher Michael Allen Fox is a great nutshell introduction book.

As a software engineer, I was surprised to see how some of Hegel's ideas describe dynamics I've observed in my career. His dialectical process resembles how software systems evolve over time, and his "Spirit" reminds me of the ferment of ideas and collaboration on the Internet. The beauty of Hegel's rich texts is that each generation of readers brings him back to life in a new way.

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Post by [deleted] »

medo-bear wrote: post #3
culi wrote: post #2

Continental philosophy is making a comeback! The kids love Žižek

its cool that hegel is being thought about again in professional philosophy, but zizek is not mentioned in the article

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Post by throwaway2331 »

culi wrote: post #10
throwaway2331 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hegel's views on education seem to mirror policy (almost 1:1) in the U.S. Perhaps, if only because the Prussian education system was imported into our culture, by our Founding Robber Baron fathers. Unfortunately, It'll be hard to go against his views, since they've been baked into almost every child's subconscious as "this is just how life is."

Interesting. Could you give an example of education policy that can be traced to Hegel's views?

I cannot.

I can only make observations that Hegel's writings on education mirror the realities of U.S. public (and most private) schools -- if only because he was a teacher in the "Prussian System," (itself, a reactionary thing born of Frederick William III's loss of face from losing to Napoleon) and thus his views were molded by his culture and the time he lived in.

I don't think Hegel really had any say in the matter -- or was that popular (or even heard of) among policymakers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Only that he is a window into the soul (or rather its destruction) of his nation at the time.

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Post by recuter »

culi wrote: post #2

Continental philosophy is making a comeback! The kids love Žižek

I find him to be a bit of a character, and a lovable one at that, but can't bring myself to actually sit down and listen/read because of it - am I missing out?

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Post by sndksb »

Emma_Goldman wrote: post #11
culi wrote: post #2

Continental philosophy is making a comeback! The kids love Žižek

'Continental' philosophy never went anywhere, it was only sidelined among certain parts of the Anglophone academy. The analytic-continental distinction is nonsensical to begin with, given that one is a style, the other a geography.

"the me–you distinction is nonsensical to begin with, given that one is an experience, the other an organism"

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Post by RNCTX »

medo-bear wrote: post #3
culi wrote: post #2

Continental philosophy is making a comeback! The kids love Žižek

its cool that hegel is being thought about again in professional philosophy, but zizek is not mentioned in the article

again?

we are all rats trapped in Hegel's maze until the apocalypse ;).

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