Word: hegelizing
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...then you will emerge from the author's thicket of anecdotes, aperçus and subordinate clauses to find your mind stimulated and faith in America renewed. Oh, another problem: Lévy is French. That means a preoccupation with theory, and he duly invokes Althusser, Aristotle, Habermas, Hegel, Heidegger, Husserl, Lacan, Montesquieu, Nietzsche, Rousseau and a pantheon of other high domes in his attempt to understand America. Sometimes he tries too hard. A visit to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, prompts a thesis about that sport as the country's true religion. Americans themselves probably...
...rolling your eyes as he’s speaking, but he’s got the floor. He always has the floor—because he…say it with me now…is that guy. That guy cannot stop quoting the one introduction of Hegel he read for tutorial last year because it must apply to every situation, and the Presidential that guy will never stop assuring you that everything can be answered with a simple cost-benefit analysis. That guy believes he possesses all the answers. Sadly, even when that guy is qualified to handle...
...disorder. I have intellectual bulimia. There. I said it, and I won’t retract it. I sit in Lamont or in Widener or in Ticknor, trying hopelessly to study for my four massive finals. I see my peers with eyes fixed on the writings of Hume and Hegel, and feeling the inevitable pressure not to fall behind, I remain in the library in agony. Sadly, I achieve nothing. I read, skim, outline, and peruse, but in the end, the facts never stick. In a matter of minutes, they are regurgitated from my brain into that dark abyss...
...Moby Dick is written on three levels.” (English)“The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.” (History)“Locke is a transitional figure.” (Philosophy)“Marx turned Hegel upside down.” (General Education)“Any theory of underconsumption and purchasing power must be grounded in the psychology of the people.” (Economics)“Berlioz is the founder of modern orchestration.” (Music)“Shaw’s heroes...
Such opinions don’t stray too far from historical debates over the purpose of art. It wasn’t too long ago that some philosophers, such as Georg Hegel, deemed the sole function of art as a way to convey the Spirit of God in visual terms. Its ultimate purpose, in his opinion, was to disappear entirely once mortals were enlightened with the Spirit. Plato himself believed in the eternal existence within the subjects of a work as an imitation of a phenomenal world...