Word: hegelizing
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...very suave but very ignorant self-satisfaction," Purdy says of the Exeter atmosphere. "There was this sense of casual entitlement." Later he was admitted to Harvard, where he became, in his own dramatic phrase, "obsessed with ethics." Listening to Purdy describe his zeal for Kant and Hegel, it's easy to see why certain critics can't help poking fun at him. Why so serious? And considering the status of Purdy's heroes--from the great French essayist Montaigne to the brave Polish dissident Adam Michnik--the objects of his derision seem like straw men. Purdy singles out for special...
Evans recalls meeting West playing pool, andeven in that setting West would "crack jokes"about Marx, Hegel or Kierkegaard...
...shot a good game of pool--or at least hethought he did--and I used to play him, and that'show I got to know him," Evans says. "Between shotshe would want to talk about Hegel or Mao Zedong orMarxism. He was very intellectually oriented...
Other: Only as noun. No credit during discussions of Hegel...
...Marx turned Hegel upside down...