Hegel: Scholar

Six dialogues on the wars over my corpse

A course on the thought of G. W. F. Hegel.

Course outline

1. What Kind of Idealist? The Dispute Over the Corpse — The deepest war in Hegel scholarship: is the system an immanent metaphysics of the Absolute, the completion of Kant's critical project, or a vision of cosmic spirit that fails at its proof? Three…
2. The Master-Slave's Afterlife: Paris, 1933 — Eleven paragraphs of the Phenomenology become the twentieth century's myth: Kojève's seminar, the end of history, the most influential footnote in modern philosophy — and Honneth's rival renewal of…
3. Standing On Its Head: Hegel and Marx — The inheritance Marx denied: species-being from my Geist, history's shape from my Roman world, estrangement from my own vocabulary — and why his famous inversion story misdescribes his own debt.
4. The Revolts: Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Adorno — Three great refusals of the system: the existing individual no science can swallow, the nothing I allegedly never questioned, and the negative dialectic that keeps my engine and breaks my closure.
5. The Ruling Categories of the World: The Indictment — Bernasconi's case in full: the corrupted editions, the theodicy's architecture, the racial exclusions documented — and the question no internal defense settles: did the system invite the crime?
6. Hegel Now: The Gravediggers' Language — The resurrection: how analytic philosophy buried me and its own children brought me back — Sellars to McDowell and Brandom — with Derrida's interminable debt, Malabou's plasticity, Taylor's situated…

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