Debate Dialectic and Post-Hegelian Dialectic (Again)
Žižek, Bhaskar, Badiou
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21159385 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Roberts (0000-0002-0059-430X, University of Wolverhampton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 72-98 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Critical Realism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-7430 • E-ISSN: 1572-5138 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/rea.12.1.y409052730562143 |
| OpenAlex | W1561179367 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 7 |
Looking at the emergence recently of a New Hegelianism (Badiou, Bhaskar, Jameson, Žižek), in which Hegel’s dialectic is variously reassessed for its political and philosophical resistance to the prevailing ‘weak nihilisms’ of left and right, I argue with Žižek and Jameson against Badiou and Bhaskar for Hegel as, essentially, a philosopher of the ‘productive return’ and failure. In this sense, what emerges is a picture of Hegel as a profoundly nonlinear historical thinker, in which loss, dissolution, breakdown and the excremental prevail. This means that the received notion of Hegel as a crude historicist is deeply problematic. But, more importantly, it means that Hegelian dialectic can find a renewed anti-teleological and non-synchronistic identity within the Marxist tradition
Aesthetics · Contradiction · Dialectic · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Historicism · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Teleology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |