
New Materialisms
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Hegel's Essay on Mediation
Hegel represents a real substantive response to object or in a mythology that and new materialism that I don't think like it allows you to sustain. He accepts the Kantian idea that there is a you know we have to think through epistemology but then he goes further to say the limitations of that create a barrier for us knowing things in themselves. Hegel's whole gambit is that okay we can actually think about the world as it actually exists but only in so far as we think through the problems of epistemology which are given to us by our culture.
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