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Richard Bourke, "Hegel’s World Revolutions" (Princeton UP, 2023)

2025/1/25
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Richard Bourke: 我是剑桥大学政治思想史教授，我的研究重点是过去哲学家的政治思想。我的著作《黑格尔的世界革命》不同于以往的黑格尔研究，因为它是由一位历史学家撰写的，关注黑格尔的实用政治思想，以及他如何回应自身时代的具体环境。我将黑格尔的思想置于其自身的历史语境中，并考察了其在20世纪的接受情况。我特别关注黑格尔对康德和法国大革命的回应，以及他如何理解革命的本质和历史进程。我认为黑格尔是一位非常精明的历史学家，他的历史观并非一味地宣扬进步，而是对历史的复杂性和矛盾性有着深刻的理解。 我分析了黑格尔思想在20世纪的兴衰，以及为什么在二战后，对黑格尔的质疑开始出现。我认为这种质疑与对历史进步论的怀疑有关，也与后现代主义、文化研究和法国理论的兴起有关。然而，我认为许多对黑格尔的批评是基于对黑格尔思想的误解和简化。 我主张将哲学和历史结合起来研究政治，认为理解政治需要对历史背景和概念的演变有深入的了解。政治思想史是一门诊断性的学科，它帮助我们理解政治故事的特征以及它们是如何由早期力量的组合产生的。大学应该专注于加深理解，而不是推动党派政治议程。 Morteza Hajizadeh: 作为访谈主持人，我没有提出具体的论点，而是通过提问引导Richard Bourke阐述其观点，并就其书中观点进行深入探讨。我的提问涵盖了黑格尔与康德的关系、黑格尔对法国大革命的解读、黑格尔历史哲学的构建、以及20世纪对黑格尔思想的评价等多个方面。通过与Richard Bourke的对话，我试图更全面地理解黑格尔的思想及其当代意义。

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This chapter explores Hegel's intellectual journey, shaped by Kant's revolutionary ideas and the French Revolution. It examines Hegel's unique perspective on revolution, highlighting his critique of the French Revolution's failures and its influence on his political thought.
  • Hegel's engagement with Kant's philosophy and its impact on his understanding of revolution
  • Hegel's critique of the French Revolution as a failed attempt at moral and political transformation
  • The significance of the French Revolution in shaping Hegel's views on modern politics

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G.W.F. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his age. Ever since, his work has shaped debates about issues as varied as religion, aesthetics and metaphysics. His most lasting contribution was his vision of history and politics. In Hegel’s World Revolutions)* *(Princeton UP, 2023), Richard Bourke returns to Hegel’s original arguments, clarifying their true import and illuminating their relevance to contemporary society. Bourke shows that central to Hegel’s thought was his anatomy of the modern world. On the one hand he claimed that modernity was a deliverance from subjection, but on the other he saw it as having unleashed the spirit of critical reflection. Bourke explores this predicament in terms of a series of world revolutions that Hegel believed had ushered in the rise of civil society and the emergence of the constitutional state.

Bourke interprets Hegel’s thought, with particular reference to his philosophy of history, placing it in the context of his own time. He then recounts the reception of Hegel’s political ideas, largely over the course of the twentieth century. Countering the postwar revolt against Hegel, Bourke argues that his disparagement by major philosophers has impoverished our approach to history and politics alike. Challenging the condescension of leading thinkers—from Heidegger and Popper to Lévi-Strauss and Foucault—the book revises prevailing views of the relationship between historical ideas and present circumstances

Richard Bourke is professor of the history of political thought and a fellow of King’s College at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of a number of books, including Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke (Princeton).

Morteza Hajizadeh) is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel). Twitter).

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