a german philosopher who turned contradiction into a machine for making history make sense.
means georg wilhelm friedrich hegel was a 19th-century philosopher who argued that reality unfolds through conflict and resolution, endlessly refining itself toward self-understanding.
from born 1770 in stuttgart, hegel spent decades as a somewhat unremarkable lecturer before his late works in berlin made him the most influential philosopher in europe, reading history itself as the slow, painful process of spirit becoming aware of itself.
phenomenology of spirit — 1807 book, written while napoleon marched on jena.
master slave dialectic — section that shaped marx, sartre, and fanon.
philosophy of history — argues history has direction, ending in freedom.
young hegelians — 1830s student circle including a young karl marx.