Hegel and Resistance - History, Politics and Dialectics

The concept of resistance has always been central to the reception of Hegel''s philosophy. The prevalent image of Hegel''s system, which continues to influence the scholarship to this day, is that of an absolutist, monist metaphysics which overcomes all resistance, sublating or assimilating all differences into a single organic ''Whole''. For that reason, the reception of Hegel has always been marked by the question of how to resist Hegel: how to think that which remains outside of or other to the totalizing system of dialectics.In recent years the work of scholars such as Catherine Malabou, Slavoj Zizek, Rebecca Comay and Frank Ruda has brought considerable nuance to this debate. A new reading of Hegel has emerged which challenges the idea that there is no place for difference, otherness or resistance in Hegel, both by refusing to reduce Hegel''s complex philosophy to a straightforward systematic narrative and by highlighting particular moments within Hegel''s philosophy which seem to counteract the traditional understanding of dialectics.This book brings together established and new voices in this field in order to show that the notion of resistance is central to this revaluation of Hegel.>

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• Authors: Rebecca Comay, Bart Zantvoort, Bart (Nexus Institute Zantvoort
• Assisted by: Rebecca Comay (Editor), Rebecca (University of Toronto Comay (Editor), Comay Rebecca (Editor), Bart Zantvoort (Editor), Bart (Nexus Institute Zantvoort (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781350123250
• ISBN: 978-1-350-12325-0
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continen; Bloomsbury Studies in Continen; Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Idealism, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Idealism, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis