Hegel on Monarchy
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Hegel supported monarchy not for its power but because it prevents the rule of experts, serving as a symbolic figure of 'common sense' above the technocratic administration.
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“Hegel was for monarchy because he saw something very well that the alternative often to monarchy is the rule of experts”
“The function of the king is to sign his name... the less he knows all the better.”
“Africa is zero level, they're not even purely human, humanity begins with China where only one is free”14:36 Slavoj Zizek on Hegel, Marx, David Harvey, and the Labor Theory of Valuepub. 2023-02-25 · 24:01
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
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Charles Taylor2Édouard Balladur2Damásio Pires Pimentel1Christiane Vulpius1David Ricardo1Josef Krips1Pontalis1Spartacus1
alongside works
Every retelling 5
Hegel supported monarchy not for its power but because it prevents the rule of experts, serving as a symbolic figure of 'common sense' above the technocratic administration., illustrating hegel-dialectics,ideology
Hegel’s defense of constitutional monarchy: the King is an 'idiot' whose function is merely to sign his name, representing the necessary element of radical contingency at the top of the rational state., illustrating contingency of necessity,hegel-dialectics
14:36 Slavoj Zizek on Hegel, Marx, David Harvey, and the Labor Theory of Valuepub. 2023-02-25 · 24:01
Hegel's Eurocentric schema, Africa as zero, China where only one is free, Persia where some are free, Greece/Christianity where all are free but limited to the religious sphere, modern Western Europe where all are free, cited as the naïve teleology Žižek then retools into 'dislocated teleology'., illustrating teleology,Hegel's dislocated teleology
36:01 Slavoj Zizek's "THE PARALLAX OF LACK AND SURPLUS IN POLITICS" (LACK V, 2025)2025-03-15 · 1:28:55
Hegel’s formula: the surplus of wealth in capitalism structurally creates the lack (poverty/rabble) it is supposed to fill., illustrating surplus recreates lack,paradox of wealth
Hegel's constitutional monarch is born into the role with no self-mediation or work, the highest ideal power coincides with the most natural, inert given; this is Hegel's own example of how Aufhebung always requires a remainder that resists sublation., illustrating Aufhebung,unaufhebbar,Hegelian state