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An Afternoon with Slavoj Zizek -- Hegel

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The End of History - Is It?

Hegel famously, that famous line that we've recounted before from the preface of the philosophy of Wright, the Al-Menerva takes flight only with the falling of dusk. And that idea is... you can see how that's tied to retroactivity. So it's in a sense importing Freud's notion of noctreglikite or retroactivity into the analysis and understanding of Hegel. If we understand the philosophy of history through the science of logic, then we can make a lot more sense of it.

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