Hegel: The Case For Contradiction with Todd McGowan

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In this episode, Craig, Will, Matt, and Adam are joined by University of Vermont Professor Todd McGowan to discuss Hegel's concept of contradiction as he lays it out in his book, Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution. Throughout the latter part of the 20th century, Hegel's philosophy came to bear the stigma of a totalizing system responsible for seeing an era of global atrocities. McGowan attempts to disabuse readers of this perception. Instead, he endeavors to demonstrate that Hegel's system of logic is, in fact, a system that opens itself up to new possibilities and forms of autonomous life in light of the emancipatory force of contradiction. Figures in the discussion include Marx, Freud, Kojeve, Žižek, Malabou, Comay, Foucault, Kant, Marx, Stirner, and many more.
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[@joeynickles7962]

The thing about my boy Hegel is that he like to get crunk off that lean.

[@nlothervoicessc4286]

Nice! Got my buddy Todd on the air for a good topic!

[@Moonroad589]

Hegel’s Theses 1801: 1. Contradiction is the rule of the true; non-contradiction is the rule of the false.

[@cherubling]

I have not seen fireworks in a long time; I would love to hear them

[@michaelthompson7546]

Hi Acid Horizon! I really liked this talk with Todd, and I also just watched this video with him interviewing Fabio Vighi about Surplus Value. I really enjoyed their conversation with each other, and loved hearing Vighi's thoughts about the current situation, Lacan, Hegel and Marx. Any way you guys could get Fabio on the show? kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmrKamCCiN6DhKM

[@JasonQuackenbushonGoogle]

hegel has always just been confused about the role of time in material change, but thst doesn’t have anything to do with logical relations between propositions, which is the subject matter of logic. hegel is a historical dead end as a result.

[@tactlacker]

Hey my curiosity wants you to elaborate on my behalf?

[@hansfrankfurter2903]

Whaddya mean? Hegel does derive the category of time in his Science of Logic, and he clearly believes in temporal succession in the material world.

[@friendoftheshow8117]

Plug me in!

[@exlauslegale8534]

This channel is slipping, letting McG. off the hook on questions of Spinoza, negativity, right wing becomings of Hegelianisms... Why didn't you ask him about P. Macheray, or even phrenology? Disappointing...

[@lacanian_lifter]

They shoulda asked him about Bigfoot, too

[@exlauslegale8534]

@@lacanian_lifter oh, we have Buenos Aires on the line

[@efleishermedia]

What do you mean exactly?

[@exlauslegale8534]

@@efleishermedia I mean they were not all lucky like Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun to get a job for NASA

[@efleishermedia]

@@exlauslegale8534 Yeah he was a Nazi. I'm still confused though.