{"id":15735,"date":"2010-08-27T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T04:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=15735"},"modified":"2010-08-27T00:00:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T04:00:26","slug":"g-w-f-hegel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/08\/27\/g-w-f-hegel\/","title":{"rendered":"G.W.F. Hegel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/08\/Hegel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15736\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/08\/Hegel.jpg\" alt=\"Hegel\" width=\"270\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/08\/Hegel.jpg 500w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/08\/Hegel-261x300.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel\" target=\"_blank\">Hegel<\/a>&#8216;s birthday (1770-1831).\u00a0 He is simultaneously one of the most influential, widely cited philosophers and also one of the most daunting.\u00a0 Frye says in an interview with Imre Salusinszky in <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=GoMOAAAAQAAJ&amp;pg=PA33&amp;dq=Imre+Salusinszky+literature+and+society&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=iSJ3TKCHPMqinQf3ncT4AQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=book-thumbnail&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CCwQ6wEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q=Imre%20Salusinszky%20literature%20and%20society&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Criticism in Society<\/em><\/a> that he enjoyed reading Hegel and was quite moved by the experience.\u00a0 He doesn&#8217;t mention that he first read (and seems to have wholly absorbed) Hegel at the age of 20.\u00a0 Here are a couple of selections on Hegel from Frye&#8217;s student essays written in the early 1930s:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The connection of Hegel with romanticism rests chiefly on Hegel&#8217;s own conception of the <em>Zeitgeist <\/em>as symbolic of the inner unity of the time-problem.\u00a0 He disliked romanticism because its idealism did not press forward into reality.\u00a0 His own chief interest, as well as his interest for posterity, centres on the strong impulse to unify and cohere to the spiritual side of life into a conception sufficiently clear to be recognized as the driving force of material.\u00a0 He wanted the idea to penetrate the innermost interstices of reality; and in this he revolted against romanticism because he attempted what they desired but shirked.\u00a0 He started out with Schelling, attacking earlier critical philosophers, notably Kant and Fichte, because their approach had destroyed the systematization resultant from the matching of subject with object.\u00a0 Like the romantics, he was necessarily a subjectivist critic; yet he hated subjectivity because he faced out to the world-as-idea and was bent on its idealistic conquest, a process easily ruined by introspection.\u00a0 Then he broke with Schelling because of the arbitrary and formalized schemata of that philosopher, which represented to him an immature and hasty jumping at conclusions.\u00a0 He wanted to <em>realize<\/em> idealism and idealize reality, and no one can attempt this without in some measure being answerable to the charge, when the approach is made from the ideal side, of having butchered facts to make a theorist&#8217;s holiday. (&#8220;Romanticism,&#8221; <em>CW<\/em> 3, 41-2)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All the stock criticisms of Hegel focus fairly well on the point that history is not quite so painless or automatic a process; that Hegel&#8217;s philosophy of history is good philosophy and bad history.\u00a0 For obviously, if Hegel&#8217;s theory applied to history as a whole, the idea would in his day have achieved a substantial conquest of reality.\u00a0 Hegel recognized this and attempted to justify the absolutism of the Prussian state of his period on precisely this ground.\u00a0 (&#8220;The Augustinian Interpretation of History,&#8221; <em>CW<\/em> 3, 211-12)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Hegel&#8216;s birthday (1770-1831).\u00a0 He is simultaneously one of the most influential, widely cited philosophers and also one of the most daunting.\u00a0 Frye says in an interview with Imre Salusinszky in Criticism in Society that he enjoyed reading Hegel and was quite moved by the experience.\u00a0 He doesn&#8217;t mention that he first read (and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,67,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-frye-on-philosophy","category-romanticism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>G.W.F. 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