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نویسنده
Kings College London
چکیده
Hegel has been subjected to a variety of incompatible interpretations in recent times, from absolute
idealism to realism, from pro-metaphysical to sans-metaphysical. One of the more eccentric Hegelian
thinkers is Slavoj Žižek, who believes that Hegel must be read as a radical materialist to clear the path
to true human liberation. Žižek’s highly controversial interpretations of Hegel have gained a celebrity
level of exposure and popularity and are mixed with Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalytic themes and
post-Marxist anti-capitalist political-social ruminations.
This paper will traverse themes in Hegel’s early religious writings through to the Phenomenology of
Spirit to critically assess Žižek’s claims/ It will support his assertion that Hegel was not an absolute
idealist but will reject the claim that Hegel was a materialist. Not only was Hegel strongly opposed to
materialism and rejected its most basic assumptions, but his dialectic evolves beyond this into a form
of radical mysticism.
Hegel considered naÔve traditional empiricism, rationalism, and mysticism to be unfit for a new urban
landscape in which science and technology were flourishing at an accelerating rate. He also wanted to
defend philosophy and religion as independent fields which addressed truth, higher reality, and the
greatest consciousness that the human mind could reach in the journey to surpassing its limitations.
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عنوان مقاله [English]
Hegel: Radical Materialist or Radical Mystic?
نویسنده [English]
- Shuja Zaidi
Kings College London
چکیده [English]
Hegel has been subjected to a variety of incompatible interpretations in recent times, from absolute
idealism to realism, from pro-metaphysical to sans-metaphysical. One of the more eccentric Hegelian
thinkers is Slavoj Žižek, who believes that Hegel must be read as a radical materialist to clear the path
to true human liberation. Žižek’s highly controversial interpretations of Hegel have gained a celebrity
level of exposure and popularity and are mixed with Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalytic themes and
post-Marxist anti-capitalist political-social ruminations.
This paper will traverse themes in Hegel’s early religious writings through to the Phenomenology of
Spirit to critically assess Žižek’s claims/ It will support his assertion that Hegel was not an absolute
idealist but will reject the claim that Hegel was a materialist. Not only was Hegel strongly opposed to
materialism and rejected its most basic assumptions, but his dialectic evolves beyond this into a form
of radical mysticism.
Hegel considered naÔve traditional empiricism, rationalism, and mysticism to be unfit for a new urban
landscape in which science and technology were flourishing at an accelerating rate. He also wanted to
defend philosophy and religion as independent fields which addressed truth, higher reality, and the
greatest consciousness that the human mind could reach in the journey to surpassing its limitations.
کلیدواژهها [English]
- Hegel
- Žižek
- Materialism
- Mysticism
- Philosophy of Religion
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