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Hegel's Undiscovered Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis Dialectics: What Only Marx and Tillich Understood

Leonard F. Wheat

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This is an original and thoroughly researched interpretation of Hegel's contribution to philosophy. For over 50 years, Hegel interpreters have rejected the former belief that Hegel used thesis-antithesis-synthesis dialectics. This incisive analysis of Hegel's philosophy shows that the modern interpretation is false. It rigorously demonstrates that there are in fact 38 well-concealed dialectics in Hegel's two most important works. It also develops a number of other major new insights. The author also shows that Marx and Tillich, who subtly used Hegelian dialectics in their own works, are the only authors who have understood dialectics. Thoroughly researched and exhaustive in detail, this radical reinterpretation of Hegel's philosophy will be of great interest to Hegel scholars and students of philosophy.

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This is an original and thoroughly researched interpretation of Hegel's contribution to philosophy. For over 50 years, Hegel interpreters have rejected the former belief that Hegel used thesis-antithesis-synthesis dialectics. This incisive analysis of Hegel's philosophy shows that the modern interpretation is false. It rigorously demonstrates that there are in fact 38 well-concealed dialectics in Hegel's two most important works. It also develops a number of other major new insights. The author also shows that Marx and Tillich, who subtly used Hegelian dialectics in their own works, are the only authors who have understood dialectics. Thoroughly researched and exhaustive in detail, this radical reinterpretation of Hegel's philosophy will be of great interest to Hegel scholars and students of philosophy.

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This is an original and thoroughly researched interpretation of Hegel's contribution to philosophy. For over 50 years, Hegel interpreters have rejected the former belief that Hegel used thesis-antithesis-synthesis dialectics. This incisive analysis of Hegel's philosophy shows that the modern interpretation is false. It rigorously demonstrates that there are in fact 38 well-concealed dialectics in Hegel's two most important works. It also develops a number of other major new insights. The author also shows that Marx and Tillich, who subtly used Hegelian dialectics in their own works, are the only authors who have understood dialectics. Thoroughly researched and exhaustive in detail, this radical reinterpretation of Hegel's philosophy will be of great interest to Hegel scholars and students of philosophy.

Key concepts: Hegelianism, Dialectic, Antithesis, Philosophy, Reinterpretation, Epistemology, Interpretation (philosophy), Aesthetics

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