Hegelei
Hegelei is a polemical expression coined by Arthur Schopenhauer for incomprehensible, mystifying language, which is supposed to create the impression of intellectual depth, complexity and importance, but is actually largely devoid of content, so that even if only minimal, usually no gain in knowledge is possible and often even in The opposite leads to mental and conceptual confusion. According to Schopenhauer, the philosophy of Hegel and his successors, the so-called Hegelians , is characterized by precisely these properties. Schopenhauer also referred to it as "philosophy of philosophy" or "windbag and charlatanism ". In particular , he criticized the Hegelian dialectic .
Schopenhauer, who started his lectures at the same time as those of Hegel, occupied him with expressions such as “pathetic patron” or “mindless, ignorant, nonsense smearing [...] philosopher”, which he justified by saying that he did not “respect I speak to people who have made philosophy contempt ”. One reason for this deep aversion was Schopenhauer's view that Hegel "disorganized the heads from the ground up with unprecedented hollow verbiage" and that German philosophy still suffers from the nonsense that he claims to be philosophy and therefore also produces nonsense.
The expression was also used by Friedrich Nietzsche , Friedrich Engels (see Basic Dialectical Laws ) and others.
Karl Löwith remarked on Nietzsche's relationship to Hegelianism, Nietzsche valued Hegel despite all criticism of the historical sense, not least because of Schopenhauer's lack of historical education in contrast to Hegel. With his “unintelligent anger at Hegel”, Schopenhauer had “brought the entire last generation of Germans out of context with German culture”. At the time of Schopenhauer, the historical sense was essentially shaped by Kuno Fischer . With reference to his history of modern philosophy, Schopenhauer remarked: "Incurably corrupted by Hegelia, he constructs the history of philosophy according to its a priori templates [...]." H. the dialectically formed historical sense.
Engels said in his Dialectic of Nature : “With Hegelian, dialectics were also thrown overboard - precisely at the moment when the dialectical character of natural processes was irresistibly imposed, when only dialectics could help natural science over the theoretical mountain - and fell into disrepair so again helplessly the old metaphysics . "
Schopenhauer's assessment of Hegel et al. Was divided or even radicalized. a. by the logical empiricists of the Vienna Circle and Karl Popper . According to the latter, Hegel's “jargon” has caused considerable damage in German philosophy and culture, resulting in first intellectual and then moral irresponsibility.
Other philosophers and theoreticians who were accused and accused of having different “Hegelei” were, for example, Martin Heidegger , Theodor Adorno , Jürgen Habermas and Michel Foucault , but especially the French post-structuralists and post-modernists who followed the latter .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arthur Schopenhauer : About the fourfold root of the sentence of sufficient reason § 20 on textlog.de .
- ↑ Friedrich Nietzsche (ed. By Karl Schlechta ): Works in three volumes, index volume 1994, p. 150. here online
- ^ Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels - Works. (Karl) Dietz Verlag, Berlin. Volume 20. Berlin / GDR. 1962. "Dialektik der Natur", p. 332, here online
- ^ Karl Löwith : From Hegel to Nietzsche. The revolutionary break in thinking in the nineteenth century , Meiner, Hamburg 1999, pp. 198f. online at Google Books.
- ↑ Friedrich Engels : Old preface to the »[Anti] Dühring« - About the dialectic, here online ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Karl Popper, Against the big words, in: Ders., In search of a better world, Munich / Zurich 1984, 99-113
- ^ Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont , Elegant Nonsense. How postmodern thinkers abuse science, Munich 1999
