Tag: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The Limits of Revivalism

Bourke’s defence of the German philosopher is historically thorough and philosophically compelling.

The State of Karl Marx, Part II: Avoiding Anarchy

It’s imperative that we strive to understand Marx’s account of history and justice, given that it continues to possess so much of the public debate on who we are and what our future may look like.

Hegel: The Revolutionary Afterlife, Part II

The revolutionary afterlife of Hegel’s political thought is proof of the power of a philosophical system, once seized by less cautious hands, to outpace its original creator.

The Scattershot Musings of Slavoj Žižek

Despite his colourful pessimism, Žižek still appears to indulge the fallacy that some combination of good will, rationality, and imagination is up to the task of saving our fallen world.

The Law of the Home: the Primacy of the Nation-State

If conservatives seek to uphold the law of the home, it is because they consider it neither feasible nor desirable to transcend it. Hence, they defend the local over the universal and the familiar over the anonymous. Their attachment to their country is founded on reverence and fidelity to that place which made them, and whose geography, law and culture constitutes the fabric of their identity and the object of their true affection.