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Hegel and Race

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Hegel and Racism - Is Hegel Really Anti-Racial?

Hegel's failure to see the way in which that attitude towards Africa is itself a victim or a species of his particular epoch. I gain my identity only when I discover myself in absolute otherness, right? So that isn't that the ultimate anti-racist position, right? And so we should be all the more unforgiving about Hegel the person for that misstep.

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