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Hegel for the (Middle) Ages

This is an extremely important and timely book that makes a number of bold claims. Some of these claims are, in my view, too boldly formulated and they thereby overly restrict Cole's focus. But to the extent that this restricted focus has allowed him to bring out aspects of Hegel's thought that have been under-illuminated and are of relevance to discussions in Marxist and other contemporary theories, even the overstatements turn out to be productive. The theses: Hegel's dialectic is fundamentally that of identity/difference. Hegel derives this dialectic from the Middle Ages, when “philosophers start talking about dialectic as almost…