Hegel anticipated how institutions can structurally undermine their own founding values.

Evidence

Hegel was unique among European Enlightenment philosophers in anticipating moments of breakdown when social formations based on certain values come to be organized around practical goals and institutions that directly undermine and oppose those values. The result is the deepest form of alienation. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 468

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the chapter’s working definition of deep alienation as institutionalized self-contradiction of values, borrowed from Hegel.
• XREF: Connects to Marxist dialectical readings of capitalism’s self-undermining; relevant to the reader’s Marxist critical-theory background. — connects to: Intellectual openness can subvert an institution’s founding purpose. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 55; Institutions used as instruments can be destroyed by their own alignment with compromised allies.; Philosophy’s stated ideals force it into conflict with the very institutions proclaiming them (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Philosophy’s stated ideals force it into conflict with the very institutions proclaiming them #exemplifies (0.88)
• Bourgeois institutions objectively embodied the idea of their own abolition #exemplifies (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2365
• Institutions used as instruments can be destroyed by their own alignment with compromised allies. #expands (0.80)
• Institutional honesty is often compromised to preserve the status quo. #exemplifies (0.78) — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 1134