Influential \;receptions of Hegel's philosophy tend to separate in Hegel \;what - "today" \;- is still actual from what should be rejected as out-dated. When it comes to the possible critical impacts of Hegel's philosophy on our (post-Hegelian) present\, Hegel's practical philosophy hereby is subtracted from the \;speculative framework of the entire system - such as\, paradigmatically\, from \;speculative logic and the conception of absolute spirit in which the absolute idea finds its actual "reconciliation."
\nAgainst such strands\, the talk puts forward two theses: Firstly \;(1) \;that it \;is precisely the \;speculative \;character of Hegel's philosophy that articulates and enables its character as being "its time grasped in thoughts\," \;i.e.\, its constitutive present relevance and embeddedness in the historical-political world\; \;and secondly \;(2) \; \;that the specific present inscribed in this speculative framework does not imply\, \;as an established cliché\; has it\, the reconciliation of a \;stabilized harmony but rather an unsettling and destabilized \;present full of ongoing contradictions\, conflicts\, \;and crises - \;according to Dieter Henrich's description: a reconciliation "in the very middle of struggles" -\, \;which\, as such\, opens up the possibility of change and liberation in the world. \;
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