St. Louis Hegelians
anecdote · history ·
retold in 3 talks
Žižek recounts the story of German high school teachers in St. Louis who founded the first Hegelian school in America, believing the 'Spirit' had moved from Europe to St. Louis. He uses this to mock the idea of a fixed geographical center of philosophy, noting how the 'Spirit' then moved to Chicago, then the West Coast, and now allegedly China.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 3
“Some German high school teachers who around established the first Hegelian school there... Hegel came to his conclusion too quickly.”
“some German high school teachers who around established the first Hegelian school there it was pretty influential even the great pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce originated from this Hegelian sources”1:41:47 Dave and Mikey interview Slavoj Žižek! for the Theory Underground book launch + Elton and Bryanpub. 2023-09-07 · 3:42:17
“since Hegel came a couple of decades earlier he thought England, France, Germany, that's it, the top. But then the spirit moved further west to United States.”15:51 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)
contents · one story, 2 jobsuses
'Noch nicht dort' Hegelians (not-yet-there Hegelians)
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teleology
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Its cast and sources
populated by
Susan Neiman2Charles Sanders Peirce2Jean Baudrillard3Nick Land2David Ricardo1Nina Power1Buddhists1David McKerracher1
alongside works
Every retelling 3
1:44:43 Slavoj Žižek talks Nick Land AI singularity, ethics of psychoanalysis, Compact Magazine, and so on!pub. 2024-03-18 · 1:57:15
Žižek recounts the story of German high school teachers in St. Louis who founded the first Hegelian school in America, believing the 'Spirit' had moved from Europe to St. Louis. He uses this to mock the idea of a fixed geographical center of philosophy, noting how the 'Spirit' then moved to Chicago, then the West Coast, and now allegedly China., illustrating Hegel-dialectics
1:41:47 Dave and Mikey interview Slavoj Žižek! for the Theory Underground book launch + Elton and Bryanpub. 2023-09-07 · 3:42:17
German high-school teachers in St. Louis around the 1870s thought the world spirit had moved from Europe to America and then to St. Louis; their followers pushed to East Coast, West Coast, and now some Chinese thinkers claim the spirit ends in China. Žižek uses this as a comic illustration of the 'not-yet Hegelian' syndrome., illustrating not-yet Hegelians,hegel-dialectics
15:51 Slavoj Zizek on Hegel, Marx, David Harvey, and the Labor Theory of Valuepub. 2023-02-25 · 24:01
A chain of Hegelian claims that the world-spirit keeps moving west, from England/France/Germany to the US (New York, then St. Louis, then California), then to post-historical Japan (Kojève), and finally back to China, which Žižek cites only to reject as the false logic of teleology., illustrating teleology,the false logic of historical progress he rejects