Violence in Hegel’s Spirit: The Deleuzian and Žižekian Judgements
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Hegel’s Spirit does contain violence. To consider the implication of violence in Hegel’s Spirit on the basis of Deleuzian and Žižekian judgements is not an ideal, since this consideration will identify violence in Hegel’s Spirit in different ways. This article proposes that what Deleuze and Žižek shares is the violence implied in Hegel’s thesis on Spirit, although they have different interpretations and understandings to the thesis. In Deleuzian judgement, Hegel’s Spirit is the Absolute that prevents and suppresses difference. In contrast, a Žižekian judegment takes the Hegelian Spirit as a desire to destitute and let the Absolute to fall down. Žižek’s understanding of Hegel’s Spirit directs to Marxian politics in concert with Lacan’s ‘the Real’ concludes that Hegel’s Spirit is the Real and Hegel’s Spirit is the politics desiring to overthrow the Absolute.
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