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US
/hiˈdʒiɫiən/
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NOUN
- a follower of the thought of Hegel
ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to Hegel or his dialectic philosophy
How To Use Hegelian In A Sentence
- The Hegelian dialectic attempts to grasp the totality of the system and argues that change occurs as a result of contradictions internal to that system.
- Like Lukács, too, he is a Hegelian historicist for whom the art that matters is one flushed with the dynamic forces of its age.
- One cannot count on Jacques Martinez to sing the bad pean to the «death» or «decrepitude» of art, this « thing of the past , like the Sunday Hegelians -- he doesn't believe in it anymore than he does, say, in the death of human beings 'desire for transcendence. Bernard-Henri Lévy: Run to See Jacques Martinez
- He has criticized liberal Protestantism, Marxism, Hegelianism, naturalism and deconstructionism.
- His work complements this project on a political plane by reading Marx and Lenin to develop an adequate political critique of Hegelianism.
- It is necessary, as in the Hegelian method, to start from the abstract concept and go from there to the particular.
- It's hard to envision neurasthenic pulling or other activity, but I don't grok Hegelian infinitesimals either.
- Bloechl's criticism focuses upon the Hegelian sublation he finds in Gibbs' effort to reconcile the dialectical opposition between philosophy and Judaism.
- Milbank claims that their basic thrust is nihilistic, as is that of positivism, Hegelianism, liberalism, relativism, subjectivism and pluralism, and that they are founded on the ultimacy of aggression, violence and war.
- In what some would consider the culmination of his thought, he weds Existentialist biography with Marxian social critique in a Hegelian "totalization" of an individual and his era, to produce the last of his many incompleted projects, a multi-volume study of Flaubert's life and times, The Family Idiot (1971-1972). Jean-Paul Sartre