Hegel, Zizek & Substance As Subject

Hegel, Zizek & Substance As Subject

I came across this article by Davie Maclean a while ago, but just got around to posting it now. The best part is under the section “Hegel, Zizek & The End Of History.” Here’s an astoundingly insightful excerpt:

Hegel’s history therefore is a backwards teleology — history has a goal, an end, and this end is where we are now, so that what defines a past event as historical is that we are now able to identify it as one of the events that led up to the present…What is required is to kickstart history again, and the way to do that is by doing the impossible, by carrying out an act that rewrites history, that redefines what is possible politically and what is not.