PL 361 - Hegel and His Modern Interpreters

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: PL 201 and one additional PL 200-level course. Hegel is famous for his teleological philosophy of world-spirit that interprets history as a progress of an ever more universal, reflexive self-knowledge. The first part of the course focuses on Hegel's Phenomenology. The second on how and why contemporary philosophers like Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou rediscover in Hegel a political theorist of antagonism and political violence.