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Reading Hegel

      Slavoj Žižek, Frank Ruda, and Agon Hamza

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Notes on the text

      The first chapter, Hegel: The Spirit of Distrust, was written by Slavoj Žižek; the second chapter, Hegel on the Rocks: Remarks on the Concept of Nature, by Frank Ruda; and the third, The Future of the Absolute, by Agon Hamza. The introduction is coauthored.

Introduction

      According to Marx’s famous saying, “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second