Hegel’s system collapsed when the Young Hegelians exposed it as sanctioning oppression

Evidence

Habermas argues that the collapse of Hegel’s attempt to discover reason in history originated in the Young Hegelians’ critique of the Absolute as effectively sanctioning continued exploitation and oppression. ‘[W]e remain contemparies of the Young Hegelians’, not simply in rejecting absolute idealism, but in following one of three paths away from it: The Left Hegelian critique, turned toward the practical and aroused for revolution, aimed at mobilizing the historically accumulated potential of reason (awaiting release) against its mutilation, against its one-sided rationalization of the bourgeois world. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 266

Categorization

• XREF: Habermas’s three-path schema of Left vs Right Hegelians vs Nietzsche is the exact typology Jameson-era postmodernism debates work within; connects to the Marxist counter-argument being built. — connects to: Hegel’s totalizing system itself relapsed into mythology; Hegel declared Africans incapable of universalist consciousness and therefore naturally enslaved; Hegel’s aufheben conflates accepting and rejecting the given, hiding real revolt — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 87

Broader Connections

• Hegel’s aufheben conflates accepting and rejecting the given, hiding real revolt #expands (0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 87
• Hegel’s totalizing system itself relapsed into mythology #expands (0.75)
• Hegel declared Africans incapable of universalist consciousness and therefore naturally enslaved #exemplifies (0.72)