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Hegel called world history a court of judgement (Gericht), a world court (Weltgericht), and in his Lectures on the Philosophy of World History he took Africans before that court and found them to be barbaric, cannibalistic, preoccupied with fetishes, without history, and without any consciousness of freedom.
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disappearing essences, abstract legal person, comic consciousness, familial moment, apparent knowing, determinate negation, intrinsic opposition, natural dissolution, speculative dialectics, savoir absolu, speculative idealism, bond between brother, speculative logic, absolute religion, subjective spirit, higher language, pure difference
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Philosophy of Right, New York, Jacques Derrida, University of Chicago Press, Alan Bass, University of Minnesota Press, Philosophy of World History, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, The German Ideology, Jean Hyppolite, Johns Hopkins University Press, The History of Dahomey, University of Nebraska Press, Paul de Man, Charles de Brosses, Philosophie des Rechts, Presses Universitaires de France, Stanford University Press, Felix Meiner, Inventions of Difference, Mary Magdalene, Northwestern University Press, Rodolphe Gasche
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