Hegelian Dialectics: Contradiction, Marxism, & the Freudian Unconscious

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Breht O'Shea

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🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Todd McGowan, professor and author of "Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution" as well as co-host of the philosophy podcast "Why Theory", joins Breht to talk about the many misunderstandings of Hegelian philosophy, the history of Left and Right Hegelianism, the role that contradiction plays in the dialectic, what a Freudian understanding of the mind lends to Hegel's philosophy, Marxism as a deviation from Hegelianism, and much, much more!

Find Todd's book here: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/emancipation-after-hegel/9780231192705

Check out Todd's podcast Why Theory here: https://soundcloud.com/whytheory

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.
0:09.2	I'm your host, Red O'Shea, and today I am interviewing Todd McGowan on his recent book,
0:14.8	A Mancipation After Haco, Achieving a Contradictory Revolution.
0:18.6	We talk about Hageelian dialectics, crucially we talk about the role that contradiction
0:23.4	plays in Hageelian dialectics, we talk about Freudian psychoanalysis, Marxism, etc.,
0:29.4	really fascinating, pretty philosophically intense conversation, which I know a segment
0:33.8	of our listenership really appreciates and responds well to.
0:37.3	So I hope everybody really enjoys this and finds something in this discussion of value
0:41.8	and of interest because I find this stuff absolutely fascinating.
0:45.3	But before we jump into that, I also want to give a shout out to Alan.
0:49.3	Alan is a patron on our Patreon, and it was actually Alan who introduced me to this
0:54.5	book, A Mancipation After Hagole, by Todd McGowan, and then sort of, you know, urged me
0:59.0	to make this episode happen, gave me the contact info for Todd, etc.
1:03.8	So I just wanted to give a shout out to Alan who is the reason this conversation took place.
1:08.9	So yeah, having said all of that, let's go ahead and get into this conversation with Todd
1:12.4	McGowan on his most recent book, A Mancipation After Hagole, Achieving a Contradictory Revolution.
1:27.9	I'm Todd McGowan.
1:28.9	I teach film and theory at the University of Vermont, and I just wrote a book on Hagole called
1:34.4	A Mancipation After Hagole, and I take a kind of psychoanalytic, German idealist approach
1:40.5	to things.
1:41.5	I've written a lot on film and a book on capitalism, so I'm interested in kind of a left-wing
1:48.4	approach to thinking things theoretically.
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