What *did* Bakunin say?

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

> yeah, Marx and the Young Germans and a lot of those God-rejecters work
> a lot with Hegel, don't they?
> I fear trying to read Hegel would put me into a coma - can't read philosophy...
> It's all I can do to get through the philosophical paragraphs in, say,
> a brief bio of one of those guys (I read a nice short one of Marx
> recently by some English dude...)

Yes, they do. A good introduction is Ernst Bloch's "Subjekt-Objekt. 
Erläuterungen zu Hegel". It's not brief (520 pages), but it contains a 
whole lot of key quotes from Hegel and is, though more than 60 years 
old, still the best road to Hegel's Palace. And Bloch frees Hegel's 
philosophy from the "spell of anamnesis" and leads it into the Open. The 
instruments of dialectic are for everybody. Ernst Bloch's vivid 
expressionistic language will definitely prevent you from coma, I promise!

http://www.ernst-bloch.net/owb/fobei/fobei26.htm

http://www.amazon.de/Subjekt-Objekt-Erl%C3%A4uterungen-Hegel-Bd/dp/3518021680

"Die Flüssigkeit des Begriffs trägt bei Hegel selber offene Systematik 
herbei, auch wenn das geschlossen-statisch gehaltene Ende sie an den 
Kreis aus Kreisen ausgeliefert hat. Item: Statt der Gesichertheit, 
Wohlgeordnetheit, Abgeschlossenheit, dieser drei Bildkriterien des 
geschlossenen Systems, hat das offene nur ein einziges: /Expedition/. Es 
ist erstaunlich, dass sie philosophisch noch nicht durchdacht ist, 
obwohl sie seit alters zur Philosophie gehört." (pp. 472-3)


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