From: "Widder,NE" <N.E.Widder-AT-lse.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Dialectic
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 23:06:07 -0000


Given what has been passing on the list recently, the following from Adorno
seems highly appropriate:

"Despite everything, Hegel ultimately remains tied to the identity thesis
and therefore to idealism, but at a moment in the history of spirit when
conformity chains spirit in a way that was not the case a hundred years ago,
the now cheap critique of idealism that at that time had to be won from the
superior power of idealism needs to be reminded that there
is a moment of truth in the identity thesis itself."

Hegel:  Three Studies (p. 40 I think).

Nathan
n.e.widder-AT-lse.ac.uk