Word: hegelian
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There are signs that, hesitantly and sometimes unintentionally, professional philosophers are beginning to take such reproaches to heart. At long last, philosophy may have stopped attacking the Hegelian bogey and be about ready to put its analytic tools to work on the real issues facing...
...Then throw it in the wastebasket. Hortense Calisher, a novelist (False Entry, Textures of Life) and short-storyteller of formidable skill, has unaccountably produced in Journal from Ellipsia a prodigious intellectual plonk: the autobiography of a-well, maybe it is a Hegelian monad, maybe it is an unborn soul, maybe it is a visitor from outer space, maybe it is just something the lady ate. Whatever it is, she writes about it in a style that combines the least admirable characteristics of James Joyce and Henry James with a Hortenseness all her own, and she writes about...
...Lasch grounds his initially biographical approach on the Hegelian premise that "history is the record of consciousness" (anybody's consciousness) and on a mass of largely unexplorel family records: the Bourne and Addams papers. But as the opportunities for original research decrease a complex and rather obliquely stated thesis emerges. In the late 19th century, when most of the early reformers were growing up, the American family as an instrument of repression was almost extinct, leaving the young intellectuals with no firm social structure to rebel against. Perhaps for this reason, perhaps because Jane Addams was not the daughter...
...Disgrace. Part of Chambers' loneliness was the fact that he was a philosopher in an unphilosophical nation. He was a Hegelian, seemingly unaware or uncaring that Hegelianism had been in philosophic disgrace for half a century. Hegel believed that history moved in terms of a set of abstract forces said to be in "contradiction." These, by the workings of another abstraction called the dialectic, would resolve themselves into a great and final synthesis in which man would become perfect within a perfect state. The attractions of such a view of history are, of course, obvious...
...finally the time has arrived for our little brother school to attempt some generic master-synthesis, some Hegelian superstructure...