Hegel, Revolution, and Historicism (Prof. Richard Bourke)
Interventions | The Intellectual History Podcast
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Hegel's History of the Past
Hegel is the opposite of revivalism it's seeing that the past died a necessary death due to its own imminent incoherence. In Hegelese by a process of dialectical supersession it gave way to a new successor set of norms norms generated themselves by antecedent failure. We are still in some sense the children of Plato and Aristotle and Cicero but we're not their students we are beneficiaries of worlds they created which have to be superseded and were superseded thanks very much for speaking with us today says Amiran Mouding.
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