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This article argues that Hegel read Lacan. Put less paradoxically, it claims that situating Hegel within a Lacanian paradigm results in an understanding of the future as still open and of history as not ended. Absolute knowing, on this model, is the recognition of the way in which history has developed, not a claim that it can advance no further. The article aims to persuade those who might otherwise dismiss Hegel – for example, persons au courant with poststructuralism – that he still can make a decisive contribution to current debates.
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Fritzman, J. Return to Hegel. Continental Philosophy Review 34, 287–320 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012021606455
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012021606455