Word: hegel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assumed the status of a national school; the celebrities, more often than in the Civil War era, actually taught courses. This period was especially a golden age for the philosophy department. At one time James, Josiah Royce, George Santayana, George Herbert Palmer, and Hugo Munsterberg all held appointments. Darwin, Hegel, and Helmholtz had progressively gained influence through the intervening years. On the other hand, operationalism, behaviorism, and the Freud Bomb had not yet burst upon the American scene...
Instead of deploring the loss of freedom in revolutionary France, Arendt points out, 19th century political theorists decided that even more terrorism was needed to "liberate" the masses. Marx declared that only violent revolution could free the poor from the yoke of the bourgeois oppressors; Hegel announced that violence was not to be shunned but to be welcomed as an inevitable part of the historical process. In their time, the Bolsheviks solemnly followed the instructions of these teachers down to the last detail, and produced the most ferocious revolution of all, in which the declared end-freedom-was completely swallowed...
Marx turned Hegel upside down...
...cited Sartre and Hegel as examples of the creative work done by philosophers, and existentialists in general for their contributions -- "new relations between individuals, new forms of guilt and ways to freedom, new interpretations of loyalty and betrayal." In his novels, Aiken said, Sartre described a new relation between man and man; Hegel added a new dimension to moral life with a treatment of alienation...
...describes with great admiration. Sir Isaiah Berlin (who will, incidentally, stay at Harvard this Fall) has "had a vast influence on everyone of my generation;" he is "an ebullient figure, with an endless flow of ideas and speculations and paradoxes; an excellent historian of ideas. Others may simply write: 'Hegel said this, and it was wrong for the following reasons'; Berlin does succeed in recreating...enough of the atmosphere of the time, and he can make one see why a thinker should have had great influence when...