Edward Backman’s Reviews > Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France > Status Update

Just read the intro and wow absolutely fantastic. Asking questions still on Hegelian minds today, clear and spot on.

“The permanent irony of the Hegelian subject consists of this: it requires mediation to know itself, and knows itself only as the very structure of mediation…”

“The human subject does not exhibit greater potency through unobstructed expression of selfhood, but requires obstruction…”