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Hegel gets colloquial

by Luke Rodgers on March 24, 2011

From page 1174-5, Volume 2 of the Aesthetics, translated by T.M. Knox.
“If a book does not please me, I can lay it aside, just as I can pass by pictures or statues that are not to my taste, and in (…)

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Could you have a base without a superstructure?

by Luke Rodgers on December 16, 2008

I don’t believe the terms ‘base’ and ’superstructure’ were articulated by Marx/Engels until later, but the gist of these distinctions is already apparent in the earlier work, The German Ideology. Reading the first part, on Feuerbach, one can’t fail to (…)

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