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Sartre’s Hegelianism. A Culturally Appropriate Form of Radical Rebellion
Sartre’s Hegelianism. A Culturally Appropriate Form of Radical Rebellion

Author(s): David Edward Rose
Subject(s): 19th Century Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy, German Idealism, Existentialism
Published by: Trivent Publishing
Keywords: Rebellion; Revolution; counter-enlightenment; Sartre; Hegel; groups; objective freedom; legitimacy; cultural propriety; ideology;

Summary/Abstract: There are two aims to the present paper. The first is to support the assertion that traditional justifications of revolution, rebellion and civil disobedience, though not wrong, are culturally inappropriate. The second is to outline, in the most basic of forms, what a “culturally appropriate” form of political resistance would require. The latter aim will be attempted by offering a counter-enlightenment model of resistance, derived in a large part from a Hegelian reading of Sartre's later work on groups, appropriate to the cultural conditions of late modernity.

  • Issue Year: 3/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 149-167
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: English