Emancipation after Hegel : achieving a contradictory revolution / Todd McGowan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGowan, Todd, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Hegel is making a comeback. After the decline of the Marxist Hegelianism that dominated the twentieth century, leading thinkers are rediscovering Hegel's thought as a resource for contemporary politics. What does a notoriously difficult nineteenth-century German philosopher have to offer the present? How should we understand Hegel, and what does understanding Hegel teach us about confronting our most urgent challenges?In this book, Todd McGowan offers us a Hegel for the twenty-first century. Simultaneously an introduction to Hegel and a fundamental reimagining of Hegel's project, Emancipation After Hegel presents a radical Hegel who speaks to a world overwhelmed by right-wing populism, authoritarianism, neoliberalism, and economic inequalities. McGowan argues that the revolutionary core of Hegel's thought is contradiction. He reveals that contradiction is inexorable and that we must attempt to sustain it rather than overcoming it or dismissing it as a logical failure. McGowan contends that Hegel's notion of contradiction, when applied to contemporary problems, challenges any assertion of unitary identity as every identity is in tension with itself and dependent on others. An accessible and compelling reinterpretation of an often-misunderstood thinker, this book shows us a way forward to a new politics of emancipation as we reconcile ourselves to the inevitability of contradiction and find solidarity in not belonging.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction. Divided He Falls

Chapter One. The Path to Contradiction: Redefining Emancipation

Chapter Two. Hegel After Freud

Chapter Three. What Hegel Means When He Says Vernunft

Chapter Four. The Insubstantiality of Substance: Restoring Hegel's Lost Limbs

Chapter Five. Love and Logic

Chapter Six. How to Avoid Experience

Chapter Seven. Learning to Love the End of History: Freedom Through Logic

Chapter Eight. Resisting Resistance, Or Freedom Is a Positive Thing

Chapter Nine. Absolute or Bust

Chapter Ten. Emancipation Without Solutions

Conclusion. Replanting Hegel's Tree

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9780231549929

023154992X

OCLC:

1096281629