Emancipation After Hegel : : Achieving a Contradictory Revolution / / Todd McGowan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: McGowan, Todd,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Hegel is making a comeback. After the decline of the Marxist Hegelianism that dominated the twentieth century, leading thinkers are rediscovering Hegel's thought as a resource for contemporary politics. What does a notoriously difficult nineteenth-century German philosopher have to offer the present? How should we understand Hegel, and what does understanding Hegel teach us about confronting our most urgent challenges?In this book, Todd McGowan offers us a Hegel for the twenty-first century. Simultaneously an introduction to Hegel and a fundamental reimagining of Hegel's project, Emancipation After Hegel presents a radical Hegel who speaks to a world overwhelmed by right-wing populism, authoritarianism, neoliberalism, and economic inequalities. McGowan argues that the revolutionary core of Hegel's thought is contradiction. He reveals that contradiction is inexorable and that we must attempt to sustain it rather than overcoming it or dismissing it as a logical failure. McGowan contends that Hegel's notion of contradiction, when applied to contemporary problems, challenges any assertion of unitary identity as every identity is in tension with itself and dependent on others. An accessible and compelling reinterpretation of an often-misunderstood thinker, this book shows us a way forward to a new politics of emancipation as we reconcile ourselves to the inevitability of contradiction and find solidarity in not belonging.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction. Divided He Falls -- Chapter One. The Path to Contradiction: Redefining Emancipation -- Chapter Two. Hegel After Freud -- Chapter Three. What Hegel Means When He Says Vernunft -- Chapter Four. The Insubstantiality of Substance: Restoring Hegel's Lost Limbs -- Chapter Five. Love and Logic -- Chapter Six. How to Avoid Experience -- Chapter Seven. Learning to Love the End of History: Freedom Through Logic -- Chapter Eight. Resisting Resistance, Or Freedom Is a Positive Thing -- Chapter Nine. Absolute or Bust -- Chapter Ten. Emancipation Without Solutions -- Conclusion. Replanting Hegel's Tree -- NOTES -- INDEX