Hegel on America and Russia in the 1820s
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In his Philosophy of History introduction, Hegel says of both America and Russia that it is too early to develop them conceptually because the next century will be theirs, Žižek reads this as evidence of Hegel's genuine openness to contingency.
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“we cannot yet know what these countries will be next century will be that”
“Next, 20th century, will be the century of these two countries. We cannot develop theory now.”
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Owl of Minerva
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negative predictability
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Hegel of radical openness
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In his Philosophy of History introduction, Hegel says of both America and Russia that it is too early to develop them conceptually because the next century will be theirs, Žižek reads this as evidence of Hegel's genuine openness to contingency., illustrating Hegel's openness and contingency,owl of Minerva,historical closure
In his Philosophy of History lectures, Hegel states that we cannot yet know what Russia and the United States will be in the next century, demonstrating that even at the 'end of history' Hegel explicitly refused to predict the future., illustrating Hegelian contingency,negative predictability,history
Writing in the 1810s, Hegel said it was too early to theorize Russia and the United States, predicting the 20th century would belong to them, cited as evidence that Hegel was far from the caricature of someone who thought history ended with him., illustrating Hegel as non-ideological empiricist,anti-caricature