“Logic is also the theory of knowledge of Marxism, but for quite another reason, because the forms themselves of the activity of… — Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov Copy Share Image
“to Hegel, history was like a running river. Every tiny movement in the water at a given spot in the river is… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
H.P.Lovecraft could've been trying to do a Marx to Hegel, that kind of thing, in other words, turn the thing upside down… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“The only way to survive such shitty times, if you ask me, is to write and read big, fat books, you know?… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
In Marxism there are some very unhelpful ideas about the need to push for a revolution that will overturn all of society.… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Beauty and art, no doubt, pervade all business of life like a kindly genius, and form the bright adornment of all our… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Life is more than thought: what a man feels, and what his senses awaken in him, are more indispensable to his life's… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
[T]ruly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Hegel claimed that the 'world spirit' is developing toward an ever-expanding knowledge of itself. It's the same with rivers--they become broader and… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Whereas Kant maintains a single, static set of experience-organizing processes necessarily linked to experience and so not transcendent but transcendental, Hegel posits… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“For Hegel, freedom was not just a psychological phenomenon, but the essence of what was distinctively human. In this sense, freedom and… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
The fact is that philosophy has been a decisive source of inspiration in all the great crises that Europe has faced. It… — Roberto Esposito Copy Share Image
“Like Rousseau, Hegel appreciated quite early on that in modern commercial societies, individuals' desires and needs were generated by the desires and… — Darrin M. McMahon Copy Share Image
The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There's a sense in which Marx does contribute to the fund of human knowledge, and we can no more dismiss him than… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Unwittingly, then, the philosophers of the Enlightenment instigated the end of ancien régimes everywhere – in thought if not in fact. They… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“The violence of Hegel’s writing style consists in not allowing the reader to translate the conflicts of a proposition into the higher… — Katrin Pahl Copy Share Image
Since substance is infinite, the universe as a whole, i.e., god, Hegel is telling us that philosophy is knowledge of the infinite,… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
“Only the modern city,” Hegel dares write, “offers the mind a field in which it can become aware of itself.” We are… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is the universal nature of human Bildung to constitute itself as a universal intellectual being. Whoever abandons himself to his particularity… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
“Yet it is also true, Hegel granted, that in many cases the individual’s freedoms and interests will genuinely be set aside, overridden,… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music in the kitchen, against Plato… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image