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In this episode, Craig, Will, Matt, and Adam are joined by University of Vermont Professor Todd McGowan to discuss Hegel's concept of contradiction as he lays it out in his book, Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution. Throughout the latter part of the 20th century, Hegel's philosophy came to bear the stigma of a totalizing system responsible for seeing an era of global atrocities. McGowan attempts to disabuse readers of this perception. Instead, he endeavors to demonstrate that Hegel's system of logic is, in fact, a system that opens itself up to new possibilities and forms of autonomous life in light of the emancipatory force of contradiction. Figures in the discussion include Marx, Freud, Kojeve, Žižek, Malabou, Comay, Foucault, Kant, Stirner, and many more.

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Anonymous

You guys are killing it! Gonna have a listen to this as soon as I'm done listening to the Transgender Marxism episode!

Everett Woolsey

Great discussion about the German Hegel

Anonymous

Heraclitus vibes ~ “the moving posset stands still”

Anonymous

Fairly certain Craig is psychic or Adam has brainwashed me. Lately, I've decided we are all living in Hegel's head, our entire political and social environment is basically his head, unlike the turn in Sophie's World (Berkeley), but in some German's head from a few hundred years ago. In this scenario I can name Left Wing Hegelians but had some trouble naming Right Wing Hegelians....can I get a Mort Sahl explains politics 1967 on youtube type diagram? ...and loved the bit on Alienation, agree 100%. Wonder what Marx would of thought of Social Media/Internet in a McLuhan manner, of today, if machine were a problem, what about artificial intelligence? Great interview.

Anonymous

Right Hegelians are people such as Karl Friedrich Göschel, George Andreas Gabler, Karl Rosenkranz, Leopold von Henning, Karl Werder. None of whom have any works in English I believe. Bruno Bauer, Feuerbach, Ruge, Edgar Bauer, Moses Hess, Stirner, Szeliga, Karl Schmidt, and Engels are examples of "Young" or Left Hegelians.

Anonymous

Ich muss auch mein Deutch verbessen! The list of "old" Hegelians I gave there is almost exclusively those names listed in Bruno Bauer's work (who converted from "old/right" to "Young/left") "The Trumpet of the Last Judgement Against Hegel the Atheist and Antichrist. The main school that I can see from the Right-Hegelian camp is probably what Lawrence Stepelevich calls "accommodationism" in that they try to keep reiterating Hegel as a thinker aligned with the Christian orthodoxies of Prussia at the time, but to my knowledge very little if anything has been translated (the Left Hegelians aren't much better in many cases). Marx's Hegelianism has been the subject of a hell of a lot of debate (such as Althusser's contention of the epistemological break with Hegel). Marx abandoned Feuerbach and Bauer as influences (see theses on Feuerbach and The Holy Family), and did so partially under the influence of Stirner whom he also rejected in The German Ideology. In terms of having solutions I think many of the left Hegelians believed they were doing so (Feuerbach was active in the 1848 revolt and had a programmatic humanism), Ruge was quite active with Marx, Hess' proposals for Labour Zionism etc. Although retrospectively as you said they may seem less concrete than Marx. Stirner had little of a direct solution, at least not a program, because he saw the problem with the left-Hegelians was their very program-centredness in erecting new ideals of social change that didn't eliminate the hegemony of ideology and religiosity (the latter of which they were almost universally concerned with eliminating).