Butler and Hegel

[Charles Brown]

Thanks to Frances and Chuck for essays on Hegel. I understand that Engels and Marx called him the philosopher of the French Revolution which dovetails with some of Chuck's comment. Engels discusses the revolutionary kernel in Hegel in _Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of German Classical Philosophy_

Charles Brown
>>> Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at tsoft.com> 01/31 4:45 AM >>>

I found Hegel's _Phenomenology of Mind_, the ratty paper copy I passed
over at Moe's three days ago and was mulling over Francis's post that
summarized the key sections when it occurred to me that maybe a lot of
people on this list have not taken their core history of humanities
classes. For shame. The poverty of higher education in the United
States these days is truly appalling. Judging from some of the
responses to Butler's Psyche Life of Power, it seems to me a lot of
Econ majors shined their L&S core requirements. Please allow me to
make up for this tragic loss.

In order to place and understand Butler (at least in this work), you
have to have been exposed to Hegel and understand his position in the
history of western philosophy. And it also helps to have some idea of

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