The Radical Hegel: Thinking from the End

Hegel shows that radical change doesn’t require looking forward to a new future but finding hope in the unseen structures of what already exists.



Hegel’s philosophy allows us to rethink emancipation in a way that challenges the picture most commonly evoked by the champions of social change. He takes up a view on things that almost no one else does, and it derives from his insistence on working through to the end and always thinking backward. In the priority of the end point, the priority o...