In this segment, we explore the lasting shadow of Hegel on the Frankfurt School, especially now on Axel Honneth and Rahel Jaeggi, who have embraced the learning theories of Hegel and his concept of progress. The place to start, though, is with Herbert Marcuse’s earliest work on Hegel, translated by Seyla Benhabib, Hegel’s Ontology and the Theory of Historicity (1932), and his Reason and Revolution (1941), as well as Adorno’s three lectures on Hegel.
Core Readings
Herbert Marcuse, Hegel’s Ontology and the Theory of Historicity, trans. Seyla Benhabib (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987)
Herbert Marcuse, Reason and Revolution (Boston: Beacon Press, 1941)
Herbert Marcuse, “A Note on Dialectic,” in Reason and Revolution (Boston: Beacon Press, 1960)
Theodor Adorno, Hegel: Three Studies, trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993)