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...Hegel, a great German philosopher whom I have been lucky enough to avoid reading, came up with the concept of dialectism. As I misunderstand it, Hegel sees a world with ideas in constant conflict: an original idea or state of existence (called the "thesis") automatically leads to the development of its own contradiction (called the "anitithesis"). The thesis and antithesis, after struggling with each other, form the "synthesis." Great Thinkers love this idea. Marx, Levi-Strauss an similar types found Great Truths in this idea of Hegel...
...CARE about Hegel. My thesis is about Marion Barry, and the closest I get to Hegel is the German restaurant where I interviewed a friend of Barry. But this concept of thesis, antithesis and synthesis seems a very powerful tool...
This is not a new topic for Derrida. He has openly confronted it in "Shibboleth: For Paul Clean," and the book Glas (about Hegel) and of Spirit (about Heidegger). In the Clean piece, Derrida says "There is certainly today a date for this holocaust that we know, the hell of our memory; but there is a holocaust for every date, somewhere in the world at every hour...
...worthies of the right, including George Gilder, Charles Krauthammer, Irving Kristol and George Will. The book is certain to be widely discussed, as the original article was, although probably not so widely read. Its 418 pages are dense with difficult words and concepts, many of them borrowed from Plato, Hegel and Nietzsche. (For a definition of megalothymia, see page 182; for a metaphysical discourse on what The Bonfire of the Vanities tells us about the zeitgeist, see page...
...more seriously than almost any politician does. The perfect example is his treatment of communism. That doctrine long ago proved to be a recipe for the accumulation and consolidation of raw power by a conspiratorial elite, not a monument to the theories of Marx -- or, for that matter, of Hegel, whom Marx admired almost as much as Fukuyama does. In fact, the more successful avowed communists were in practice, the more cynical they were about the theory...