Why is the philosopher Hegel returning as a potent force in
contemporary thinking? Why, after a long period when Hegel and his
dialectics of history have seemed less compelling than they were
for previous generations of philosophers, is study of Hegel again
becoming important? Fashionably contemporary theorists like Francis
Fukuyama and Slavoj Zizek, as well as radical theologians like
Thomas Altizer, have all recently been influenced by Hegel, the
philosopher whose philosophy seems somehow perennial - or, to
borrow an idea from Nietzsche, eternally returning. Exploring this
revival via the notion of 'negation' in Hegelian thought, and
relating such negativity to sophisticated ideas about art and
artistic creation, Andrew Hass argues that the notion of Hegelian
negation moves us into an expansive territory where art, religion
and philosophy may all be radically reconceived and broken open
into new forms of philosophical expression. The implications of
such a revived Hegelian philosophy are, the author argues, vast and
current. Hegel thereby becomes the philosopher par excellence who
can address vital issues in politics, economics, war and violence,
leading to a new form of globalised ethics. Hass makes a bold and
original contribution to religion, philosophy and the history of
ideas.
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