Word: hegelian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many of the values developed at home in favor of the new ones he imagines to have found here. But Harvard, while it spurns the richness of a full American tradition, does not provide a satisfactory Continental substitute. To the undergraduate, Europe is a spectrum ranging from Germany's "Hegelian mysticism" to England's ubiquitous middle class muddling through Asia and Africa are still thought of as lower civilizations, admired only for primitive art and Japanese prints. This is the average extent of undergraduate cosmopolitanism. Meanwhile, the non-Eastern student has been taught the inadequacies of his own provincialism...
...pulled out his pipe and mentioned the theologian as he struck a match. "Fabulous, isn't he? Depth psychology, symbolic meaning, Hegelian dialectic, expressionist art, existentialism, and all twentieth-century: complex, bold, systematic...Everything...
...Karl Marx has an earlier title. In his Introduction to a Critique of the Hegelian Philosophy of Right, he wrote: "It [religion] is the opium of the people...
Thus to my Hegelian sensibility, the pendulum theory appears an arbitrary construct. Western culture incorporates not only Biblical and Hellenic elements, but also Gothic. It takes up parts of these traditions and discards others. The classical Renaissance did not simply resurrect the Ancients in their old form. Gibbon dressed his Romans and his Christians as neo-classicists, and while Hellenism dominated the synthesis, it did not emerge pure. Consequently, it hardly seems likely that the impending transformation will be accomplished with a religion designed for the Hellenic Babel...
Where the Hegelian perspective seems to be subtly and profoundly assimilated in Professor Taubes' article, Mr. de Man espouses Heidegger more than he cares to admit. His article, The Inward Generation, represents an extremely ambitious attempt to define the contemporary nibilism in literature in terms of some of the tenets of Existential philosophy. But it is disquieting to be offered no more than glimpses into a mammoth question. A minute area of this question argued with sustained lyricism or philosophic incisiveness would reveal the whole in a more compelling manner that the almost breathless exposition which Mr. de Man offers...