Hegel
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Hegel is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between October 04, 2021 and April 20, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “many of the early modern artists got their Plato indirectly, through Christianity or Hegel;”; “invoking Aristotle and Hegel and Heidegger”. It most often appears alongside 19th century African art, 20th century, 9-11.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: October 04, 2021
- Last seen: April 20, 2022
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- 19th century African art (1 shared issues)
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- 20th century (1 shared issues)
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- 9-11 (1 shared issues)
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- A.E. Waite (1 shared issues)
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- abstract art (1 shared issues)
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- Adlerian psychology (1 shared issues)
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- Aka (1 shared issues)
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- Akhenaten (1 shared issues)
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- AL (1 shared issues)
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- Albert Gleizes (1 shared issues)
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- Alex Power (1 shared issues)
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- American republicanism (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
The rise of modern art is well-documented. The motivation for its abstraction derived originally from Plato--modern art is supposed to be the artist-as-prophet providing humanity with a more-direct vision of Plato's transcendent forms; the argument for why representational art is bad comes straight from Plato's Meno. (Though many of the early modern artists got their Plato indirectly, through Christianity or Hegel; and Romanticism and the decadents were also major influences.) Those other periods of abstract art I just mentioned which were just then being discovered were also influential, as was medieval art.
Around Seminar XI / 1964, Lacan got booted from the Freudian institute, for being too heterodox. So he pivoted and gave a lecture for more general-purpose French intellectuals at the time, which is why Seminar XI is mysterious and obscure: he's talking to guys like Merleau-Ponty, top brass of the French intellectuals, and invoking Aristotle and Hegel and Heidegger, not doing close readings with a gaggle of analysts. But the results of his earlier close readings form the groundwork for his later work. He gets increasingly esoteric from that point on, IMO culminating in Seminar XX, which is kind of where the groundwork for modern notions of gender comes from (Butler was a Lacanian, although she may not admit it).