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(adjective) of, relating to, or characteristic of Hegel, his philosophy, or his dialectic method / (noun) a follower of Hegel; an adherent of Hegelianism

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Let me express myself in as simple and Hegelian a manner as possible.

This sentence is weirdly adorable

—p.128 Letters to Walter Benjamin (110) by Theodor W. Adorno
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Modern thought is pledged to a kind of applied Hegelianism: seeking its Self in its Other.

—p.69 The anthropologist as hero (69) by Susan Sontag
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Within the larger field of bourgeois ideology, a German tendency could be distinguished from the Anglo-French one. The Hegelian school professed the primacy of the ideals of a people

—p.70 The Abolitionist—II (69) by Gopal Balakrishnan
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they functioned as vanishing mediators—destructive operations which, by some Hegelian ruse of history, clear the terrain for new and unexpected developments

—p.131 Aesthetics of Singularity (101) by Fredric Jameson
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Whatever the polemical virtues of this account—and it sounds as true as anything Baudrillard ever said about the simulations of the capitalist code—it remains firmly within Hegelian coordinates.

I know all of these words but I don't really know what he's saying tbh

—p.148 Chapter 6: The Magic of Debt; or, Reading Marx Like a Child (137) by Richard Dienst
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One should take a Hegelian step back and question the very measure from which fundamentalism appears in all its horror.

—p.101 Prognosis (90) by Slavoj Žižek
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G. K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday, in which the highest police authority is the same person as the super-criminal, staging a battle with himself. In a proto-Hegelian way, the external threat the community is fighting is its own inherent essence

this word will show up many more times in this book, believe me

—p.23 Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo: (8) by Slavoj Žižek
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It is only when she decides on her revenge that she effectively acts as and becomes one of them, losing her arrogant, superior position. In killing them, she recognises them in a Hegelian way.

—p.164 Allegro: (151) by Slavoj Žižek
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There is the elementary matrix of the Hegelian dialectical process here: the external opposition (between law and its criminal transgression) is transformed into the opposition, internal to the transgression itself, between particular transgressions and the absolute transgression which appears as its opposite, as the universal law.

—p.55 Allegro moderato – Adagio: (34) by Slavoj Žižek
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