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8806331 No.8806331 [Reply] [Original]

Is Hegel actually worth reading? Can we please settle this one? Is he a charlatan or a genius, and why?

>> No.8806339

>>8806331
Hegel was a dumbfuck. Nothing he wrote is worth reading.

>> No.8806344

>>8806339
this. anyone who managed to delude a generation of gay frenchies into writing nigh incomprehensible garbage (continentals no less) is not worth the time and/or effort

>> No.8806351

>>8806344
>>8806339
okay well that was fast, thanks

>> No.8806367

I went through a very anti-Hegel phase immediately after I abandoned Marxism, but lately I've begun to have this sneaking suspicion that he might have been right about some things after all, I mean in so far as what I understand of him.

To my mind, Hegel is the quintessential philosopher of the Enlightenment, so in the sense that we still live in a society dominated by modes of Enlightenment thought anyone would find reading him edifying.

>> No.8806459

>>8806331
bump, I'm curious too

>> No.8806492

>>8806351
>convinced by yes/no answers
Quit being stupid, it's bad for everybody.

>> No.8806505

>>8806492
fuck you, lil bitch, quit taking posts on 4chan so seriously, it's bad for everbody

>> No.8806511

>>8806331

>worth reading

I read an English translation of Phenomenology of Spirit and seeing how dense it is and how you're not even truly understanding it through a translated lense its probably only worth it if you are a German-speaking philosophy student or author

>> No.8806551

>>8806505
screw you, you freaking twerp
if you can't muster a decent reply, it's best to just leave it be

>> No.8806585

>>8806331
ive heard his stuff is a virtually impenetrable reaction to a long chain of prior philosophers and that he can only be understood if you have the context of having read all of them beforehand

wasnt he the one that was criticized for turning philosophy into a needlessly impenetrable discipline