Word: hegelizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Great Books approach is predicated on the belief that "the sacred texts" should be read as classics qua classics, independent of time or place. As a history department offering, the new course will place the works of Nietzsche, Marx and Hegel in a historical context; they will not simply be revered...
...Marx turned Hegel upside down...
...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