Hegel, Revolution, and Historicism (Prof. Richard Bourke)
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Hegel's World Revolutions
Hegel was the quintessential political philosopher for understanding politics in larger as we might say historical contexts and they were of course global historical contexts. So this interest in revolutionary processes and indeed world-stakel revolutions, it seemed to me then boiled down to a preoccupation with historical transitions essentially and epochal transitions. His work very much is an attempt to give an account of modernity and its underlying value systems and institutional organisation. That also picks up on a theme from your inaugural lecture from just over a year ago where you spoke of Hegel's wisdom for modern historians. Could you say more about this insight and where it might lead the history of political thought and indeed the Cambridge school?
