Word: hegelian
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...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...
...turning away from Christ, has reached "the dubious conclusion that history will emancipate him from all evil." But there is no salvation through history, and no escape from it, either. Determinism is not the answer, nor is the Hegelian theory that man improves on his journey through history, no matter what action he takes. "Christianity moves in all history, but it has a dimension above history . . . We Christians must accept the fact that we are in this age. We have to work out our lives' history in this period . . . We must make decisions...