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Single Idea 8215

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / d. Nineteenth century philosophy ]

Full Idea

Hegel was the last philosopher of the Book.

Gist of Idea

Hegel was the last philosopher of the Book

Source

report of Georg W.F.Hegel (works [1812]) by Jacques Derrida - Positions p.64

Book Ref

Derrida,Jacques: 'Positions' [Continuum 2002], p.64

A Reaction

Reference to 'the Book' connects this to the great religions which rely on one holy text. The implication is that Hegel was proposing one big solution to all problems. It is doubtful if many philosophers before Hegel dreamt of that either.

The 7 ideas with the same theme [overview of philosophy from 1801 to 1878]:

20109 Hegel inserted society and history between the God-world, man-nature, man-being binary pairs [Hegel, by Safranski]
8215 Hegel was the last philosopher of the Book [Hegel, by Derrida]
20255 Early 19th century German philosophers enjoyed concepts, rather than scientific explanations [Nietzsche]
20260 Carlyle spent his life vainly trying to make reason appear romantic [Nietzsche]
22036 In Hegel's time naturalism was called 'Spinozism' [Pinkard]
20110 Hegel, Fichte and Schelling wanted to know Kant's thing-in-itself, as ego, or nature, or spirit [Safranski]
21943 Since Kant, self-criticism has been part of philosophy [Gutting]