Las sobras de Hegel están por venir

Abstract

The purpose of this contribution is to try to answer the following question: "What is the future of Hegel?" In the 90s of the last century, Hegel woke us up from the dogmatic dream of a history of political emancipation on behalf of freedom, as well as from a history of emancipation from nature in the name of technique; now we try to turn Hegel against Hegel in order to make a reading of him valuable to our present, and to the future to come. Perhaps we could find in Hegel a way to escape both fundamentalism, on the one hand, and exclusionary particularisms on the other. Hegel’s work can be read closer to Walter Benjamin’s idea of the redemption of the past by the revolution of the present, pointing at the possibility of a new revolution, which offers no guarantees, but in which human dignity is played. This time to come has to be understood as a feedback loop, not as a linear development.