How Lacan Discovered the Subject of Capitalism
Lacan based his theory of the subject on Hegel’s master-slave dynamic…
The politics of the castaway story
The castaway story has helped promulgate a view about human nature as eternal and unchanging. By taking human beings out of society, our supposedly fundamentally individualist survival instincts come to the fore.…
Hegel is considered the hardest philosopher, but his views aren’t actually that outlandish
The final irony here is that Hegel’s views are actually much less bizarre and outlandish than many other philosophers with less challenging reputations, such as Leibniz with his monads, Kant with his…
The myth of Aufheben
the Hegelian Aufhebung works not to a logic of mastery, not to a logic that overcomes what it negates, but to a logic of life and death that lives and dies, negates and preserves,…
Eduard Gans and the awakening of the social question
Hegel is one of such paragons that marks a route to many adventurers in the realms of philosophy until today.…