person
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Hegel
also: Hegelt
Hegel (1770–1831), German idealist philosopher; his dialectical categories (positive/negative, subjective/objective) are the target of Madách's central philosophical joke in The Civilizer, where Stroom's attempt to apply them to household management is neatly deflated.
Reading notes
- The Civilizer §16 Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), German idealist philosopher whose system of dialectics (thesis/antithesis/synthesis, the positive and negative) was fashionable in educated Central European circles in the 1850s. Stroom's attempt to apply it to household management is the play's central philosophical joke.