Word: hegelian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doesn't need to understand or believe in Hegelian epistemology to recognize the syndromes Understanding Toscanini analyzes. Many decades have passed since "classical" music, whatever that is, was a living, breathing art, unencumbered by its own prestige and the status-seeking of audiences...
...sense to assume that any trend will keep on advancing until it triumphs all along the line. A trend postulates a countertrend, a force to be overcome, and if that latter has any raison d'etre to begin with, it will eventually reassert itself, and turn things around. The Hegelian triad of thesis-antithesis-synthesis has much to recommend it as a scheme of change...
...Henry Luce wrote an article for LIFE called "The American Century," which was partly meant to urge Americans into the war and partly to put forth the apparently Hegelian proposition that the Idea had at last touched these shores. Luce's article, a grand-gesture declaration of American pre-eminence in the world, was as dangerous as it was magnanimous, since it could easily be read (and was) as the rationale for the ensuing blunders of more recent American foreign policy. But the basis of the piece bespoke what most Americans and many others in the world acknowledged, whether...
...succintly, I see in this period an emerging self-consciousness in Southern culture, a quasi-Hegelian process as it were...