The Birth of Theory

Published Jan. 21, 2016

The contention that Hegel was the first to give us theory is supported in this new account of Hegel’s dialectic and its influence on everyone from Marx to Nietzsche, Bakhtin, Deleuze, and Jameson. Cole is a professor of English at Princeton and a Guggenheim fellow.

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