The unruly spiral : dialectics in the light of contemporary debates

Abstract

But truly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes that we are aware of the extent to which Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it implies a knowledge, in that which permits us to think against Hegel, of that which remains Hegelian. We have to determine the extent to which our anti- Hegelianism is possibly one of his tricks directed at us, at the end of which he stands, motionless, waiting for us.