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ZIZ015 The Return to Hegel (2009)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

CHAPTER

The Hegelian Concept of Totality

Hegel may appear to be this kind of a totally closed structure, but I think the way we should read the Hegelian notion of totality is more in this. At every historical moment we don't have just the present, the present is always also the entire past. The idea is here what in structure is and it was called the priority of synchrony over diachrony. This is how we should distinguish common changes and a true radical change. Common change is just explore possibilities within this structure of the past,. Radical change restructures in this sense the past itself.

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