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Initiated almost 200 years ago, the accusation that G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophy qualifies as Gnostic has stood the test of time. Beginning with Ferdinand Christian Baur’s 1835 Die christliche Gnosis, thinkers have attempted to inextricably bind Hegel’s philosophical endeavors to the ancient form(s) of religious knowledge production known as ‘Gnosticism’. Two additional figures have surfaced more recently who also champion the Gnostic accusation, namely Eric Voegelin and James Lindsay. Voegelin’s 1968 Science, Politics, and Gnosticism as well as his 1972 ‘On Hegel: A Study in Sorcery’ seek to justify and legitimize the Gnostic accusation in unequivocal terms. Lindsay’s 2022 best-seller, Race Marxism, further perpetuates the charge of Gnosticism against Hegel. I aim to deal with each of these figures and their respective accusations in reverse chronological order, demonstrating how each of them must artificially construct Hegel as a Gnostic in order to successfully defend their accusations.
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Baur, F.C. Christian Gnosis, trans. Robert F. Brown (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2020).
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Colebrook, M.J. The Recurrence of the End Times: Voegelin, Hegel, and the Stop-History Movements (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).
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Hegel, G.W.F. Elements of the Philosophy of Right, trans. H.B. Nisbet (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
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Hegel, G.W.F. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: The Science of Logic, trans. G.D. Giovanni (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
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Hegel, G.W.F. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. A.V. Miller (New York City, NY: Oxford University Press, 1977).
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Hegel, G.W.F. Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: Introduction and the Concept of Religion (Volume I), trans. R.F. Brown, P.C. Hodgson, J.M. Stewart, J.P. Fitzer, and H.S. Harris (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984).
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Hegel, G.W.F. Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: Determinate Religion (Volume II), trans. R.F. Brown, P.C. Hodgson, J.M. Stewart, and H.S. Harris (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1987).
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Hegel, G.W.F. Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: The Consummate Religion (Volume III), trans. R.F. Brown, P.C. Hodgson, J.M. Stewart, and H.S. Harris (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985).
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Hegel, G.W.F. The Philosophy of History, trans. J. Sibree (New York City, NY: Dover Publications, Inc, 1956).
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The Hegel Myths and Legends. Edited by Jon Stewart (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1996).
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Lindsay, J. Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis (Orlando FL: New Discourses, LLC, 2022).
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McManus, M. ‘Race Marxism Is a Very Strange, Very Bad Book’, Jacobin (2022).
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O’Regan, C. The Heterodox Hegel (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994).
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Shanks, A. Hegel’s Political Theology (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
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Voegelin, E. ‘On Hegel: A Study in Sorcery’, in J.T. Fraser, F. Haber, and G. Muller (eds.), The Study of Time (Berlin, DE: Springer-Verlag, 1972).
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Voegelin, E. Science, Politics, and Gnosticism: Two Essays (Washington D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc, 1968).
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Initiated almost 200 years ago, the accusation that G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophy qualifies as Gnostic has stood the test of time. Beginning with Ferdinand Christian Baur’s 1835 Die christliche Gnosis, thinkers have attempted to inextricably bind Hegel’s philosophical endeavors to the ancient form(s) of religious knowledge production known as ‘Gnosticism’. Two additional figures have surfaced more recently who also champion the Gnostic accusation, namely Eric Voegelin and James Lindsay. Voegelin’s 1968 Science, Politics, and Gnosticism as well as his 1972 ‘On Hegel: A Study in Sorcery’ seek to justify and legitimize the Gnostic accusation in unequivocal terms. Lindsay’s 2022 best-seller, Race Marxism, further perpetuates the charge of Gnosticism against Hegel. I aim to deal with each of these figures and their respective accusations in reverse chronological order, demonstrating how each of them must artificially construct Hegel as a Gnostic in order to successfully defend their accusations.
| All Time | Past Year | Past 30 Days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract Views | 1047 | 906 | 42 |
| Full Text Views | 163 | 11 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 444 | 40 | 1 |