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In this major new study, philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers an innovative reading of a book that forms part of the bedrock of modern Western thought: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.Whereas other writers have interpreted the Phenomenology as a rigidly closed system, Jameson discovers it to be a more fluid, open-ended work. Hegel's mind is revealed to be a less systematic mechanism than normally thought, one whose ideas never solidify into pure abstractions. The conclusion of the Phenomenology, on the aftermath of the French Revolution, is examined as a provisional stalemate between the political and the social—a situation from which Jameson draws important lessons for our own age.
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The Hegel variations, Fredric Jameson
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- Released
- 2010
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- Title
- The Hegel variations
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Fredric Jameson
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 144
- ISBN10
- 1844676161
- ISBN13
- 9781844676163
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, Philosophical Topics, Germany, Sociology, Scientific Theories, 21st Century
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- 3.75 out of 5
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- In this major new study, philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers an innovative reading of a book that forms part of the bedrock of modern Western thought: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.Whereas other writers have interpreted the Phenomenology as a rigidly closed system, Jameson discovers it to be a more fluid, open-ended work. Hegel's mind is revealed to be a less systematic mechanism than normally thought, one whose ideas never solidify into pure abstractions. The conclusion of the Phenomenology, on the aftermath of the French Revolution, is examined as a provisional stalemate between the political and the social—a situation from which Jameson draws important lessons for our own age.