HTH 1002 Spring 2018

1. Hegel
HTH 1002
Kara Heitz

2. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Hegel (1770-1831)
• Hegel and History
• Dialectic
• Thesis, antithesis, synthesis
• Ideas move history
• Master/Slave Dialetic

3. Susan Buck-Morss,
“Hegel & Haiti” (2000)
• Slavery becomes a central metaphor
in Enlightenment
• Why is this ironic? Hypocritical?
• Haitian Revolution
• Universal history
• Living up to promise of the
Enlightenment