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Hegel and Postcommunism
Korda, Tomáš ; Karásek, Jindřich (advisor) ; Barša, Pavel (referee) ; Matějčková, Tereza (referee)
The submitted dissertation interprets the history of the "totalitarian" century as the 'world's court of judgement' that decided which philosophy is topical based on its ability to reconcile with the given reality. I argue that it is Hegel's philosophy that proves to be topical, since (1) it is necessary to deal with the philosophy of Marx, which was behind the Communist experiment that divided and formed the 20th Century, (2) it was Marx's philosophy that, by diverting from Hegel, succumbed to Spinozism, (3) the "one and only instance of disproving Spinozism" was provided by Hegel, as he stated himself. The dissertation discusses these three theses, thus creating a framework for the application of Hegel's genuine refutation (Widerlegung) of Spinozism on Marx. By such act of refuting we arrive at the state as a self-knowing (immanent) end of the capital. Only in the state does the capital know that it is an end in itself instead of being a tendency (instrument) of achieving an external (higher) end, as was the case with Communism. Emancipated from Communism, capital becomes the state and as such opens up to inter-state relations and creates history by their means.
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