Disaster Strikes!

Those of you who I have spoken to recently probably know that I'm engaged with a little foray with Levinas and Hegel (actualy, Levinas is coming later after I'm done with my initial attack on Hegel). The current problem is that every time I come up with an accusation to level against the big H I return to the Phenomenology and he answers it very smoothy (well not very smoothly, rather complicated but very persuasive). I have been trying my hardest to level the old Feuerbachian critique to do with language at him but I have since realise that language is not necessary for the dialectic of sense-certainty (which incidently turns out to be Protagorus) to occur so I find myself having to concur with Hegel. This is depressing as now I am going to have to spend a large part of my paper defending Hegel against Feuerbach who really gets Hegel wrong. What a shame. I'm hoping that Levinas will offer a more suitable way of overcoming Herr Hegel.

In any case, I'm pleased that I'm more interested with the Spinoza-Nietzshce-Deleuze line of thought, otherwise I'd have to spend years trying to find flaws in Hegel's system.

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