11:33 “Understanding is always dividing things up and never looking for the connection and that’s what reason does-and that’s what allows it to arrive at contradiction.”

So when we read “ What is rational is actual; and what is actual is rational” through Kant, whom Hegel is drawing on, it translates into, “the antinomies of reason that scupper the universal are not just epistemic but have ontological effects, and everything that exists fails to be totalised (especially in its particular) in any unproblematic way because of the antinomies of reason?” As soon as ‘rational’ means Kant’s Reason and its paradoxes, the superficial meaning read as trying to validate Voltaire’s satirical “best of all possible worlds” swings into Gulliver’s Travels satire on the existing world, opening a critique of reality? This does seem to point to Lacan’s formulas of sexuation which deals with the rational and the actual in their internal failures. At least if I am understanding right. Your book is one of my faves by the way.

Great conversation. Thanks so much. I am looking to get more into Hegel, and this helped to clarify a few things.

The dynamic duo

Book already ordered

The actuality of thought is what you do after Todd, Dick, and Hegel.

16:42 sounds like Hegel presaged the _embodied cognition_ thesis here

psychoanalysis or dialectics? or both?

3:19 well fascists claimed Hegel-Giovanni Gentile, the philosopher of fascism, was a right-wing Hegelian who held Hegel as one of his “spiritual ancestors” and felt an “unrepayable debt to his inspiration.” _(Phil. of Giovanni Gentile,_ Oxford Uni. Press, 1920)

I love Todd but he has a poor understanding of Deleuze