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...Marx turned Hegel upside down...
...intelligent reading of it requires an education very different from the one obtained by the average member of the Harvard Faculty. It requires not analytical philosophy but Hegel, not marginal utility theory but Smith and Ricardo, not quantifiable political science but reflections about revolution. It also requires a serious interest in labor, from the way most people spend their lives to the history, and especially the mistakes, of the labor movement. Since many of these subjects are now taught, it is difficult today to recall accurately how narrow was the gamut run at Harvard between behavioust psychology and studies...
...What experience and history teach is this," said Hegel, "that people and governments never have learned anything from history." At times like these, amid the din of clanging metaphors, one almost wishes he were right. -By Charles Krauthammer
...arrest after Mao's death; nor on the Cultural Revolution. I pressed him on what had gone wrong in China since our youth and his triumphant career; he dodged. When I finally pressed, deeply and hard, on the transition, he elegantly replied, "You must remember what Hegel said, that a man reaches an understanding of the history of his own time step by step ? only step by step...
That assertion would seem to present new evidence of Japan's literary resurgence. But there is an equal and opposite force at work in the country, and pessimists cite it as an indication of decline. "It used to be that every potential intellectual in Japan read Hegel or Kant," laments Keene. "But no more. The people who seven or eight years ago were reading Romain Rolland are now reading comics...