The dialectical principle of subject-object reconciliation is Hegel’s invention

Evidence

Yet it is at once evident that the very principle at work in the dialectical analyses which we have described above—that of the adequation of subject and object, and of the possibility of reconciliation of I and Not-I, of spirit and matter, or self and world—is itself the very premise of Hegel’s system and may be claimed to be virtually Hegel’s intellectual invention. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 101

Categorization

  • XREF: Locates the key term Jameson takes from Lukács and Hegel: the adequation/reconciliation of subject and object. — connects to: Hegel dissolves subject-object dualism by starting before the separation occurs — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 102; The Hegelian dialectic colonized war discourse into philosophy — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 75; Hegel’s dialectic aimed to repair Kant’s split between mind and world. (+1 more)

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