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Stephen Houlgate - Hegel On Being
Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour
The Importance of Speculative Sentences
I think speculative sentences are a linguistic form that's meant to articulate the emergence of a subject matter. So I think it's very important that people not just be put off by Hegel's language, but ask themselves, why is he writing like this? And one final point, and then I'll stop this point, English readers obviously have the added difficulty of the translation. But one of the things that Hegel wants to do is draw upon familiar terms in German and Heidegger does the same thing and use those terms to name philosophical concepts.
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