PUPPETEERS AND VENTRILOQUISTS: THE PIPPIN-ŽIŽEK-JOHNSTON DEBATE AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A HEGELIAN TODAY

• Authors: Keymeulen Kobe
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper investigates the polemics between Hegel scholars Robert Pippin and representatives of the “Ljubljana School,” Slavoj Žižek and Adrian Johnston. Our issue is not to reduce the matter to a political quarrel or decide on the “accuracy” of their Hegel interpretation, as existing literature has done. Rather, we focus on the debate’s developments through the lens of Žižek’s initial signal that what all participants share is an interest in the question “What does it mean to be a Hegelian today?” By analysing key interactions, we present the argumentative structure of their agreements and differences, most notably on topic of a “need” (or not) for a “mutual redemption” with psychoanalysis. Doing so, we aim to lay the groundwork for a rudimentary positioning of Ljubljana in the landscape of Hegel scholarship (at least) as these authors perceives it.

Keywords

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HEGEL; SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK; ADRIAN JOHNSTON; ROBERT PIPPIN

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 80
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 106 – 120

Contributors

author

Keymeulen Kobe

• Department of Philosophy and Moral Science, Ghent University, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9579-715X

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2025.80.1.8