Hegel and the shadow of materialist geographies
- There seems to be a wide agreement in critical geographic thought that Hegel is dead, as to end up with Hegel’s idealism serves to be the starting point for the materialist project of critical geographies. This paper aims to call this starting point into question by confronting Henri Lefebvre with Slavoj Žižek. While Lefebvre, one of the pioneers of materialist geographic thought, intensively worked on a metaphilosophical critique to open Hegel’s testament, Žižek’s Hegel supposed to pave the way for a new philosophical materialism. This paper seeks to claim that such a materialist Hegel not only survives the critical encounter of Lefebvre’s metaphilosophy, but also encourages us to inquire about the possibilities and consequences of a geographical turn to Hegel. What if there is a Hegel out there that geography has not even detected?
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| Author: | Lucas Pohl |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-534443 |
| URL: | https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1716 |
| ISSN: | 1492-9732 |
| Parent Title (German): | ACME : an international e-journal for critical geographies |
| Place of publication: | Victoria, British Columbia |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2019 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2019 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2020/04/27 |
| Tag: | Hegel; Henri Lefebvre; Idealism; Materialism; Materialist Geographies; Slavoj Žižek |
| Volume: | 18 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Page Number: | 23 |
| Note: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 46591862X |
| Institutes: | Geowissenschaften / Geographie |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| 9 Geschichte und Geografie / 91 Geografie, Reisen / 910 Geografie, Reisen | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitung 4.0 |
