Meanings
- human sciencesThe convoluted, obscure style of writing associated with the works of G.W.F. Hegel
In Hegelese, the fatal weakness of representational language resides precisely in its representational character: in the fact that it remains stuck at the level of Vorstellung, […].
2005, Slavoj Žižek, The metastases of enjoyment: six essays on women and causality, pages 44–452 more examples
We have felt it ourselves when the obvious meaning of Shakespeare has been rewritten into Hegelese, by some Doctor of Philosophy […] eager to apply his new theory of fog as an illuminating medium.
c. 1886, James Russell Lowell, “Don Quixote”, in Lowell's Works, page 122To speak Hegelese for a moment, since the deductive processes so discriminated require for their own development, for their own self-realization, to be combined with and enriched by their ampliative complements, in the broad view of these matters required by an investigation of philosophical governance the opposition between them must be overcome.
1988, Frederick L. Will, Beyond Deduction, page 152
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