Hegelese

English Etymology From en Hegel ese. Proper noun en philosophy The convoluted, obscure style of writing associated with the works of G.W.F. Hegel en c. 1886 w:James Russell Lowell Lowell's Works http://books.google.com/books?id=dnA3AAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA122 122 Don Quixote We have felt it ourselves when the obvious meaning of Shakespeare has been rewritten into Hegelese, by some Doctor of Philosophy desperate with the task of saying something when everything had heen already said, and eager to apply his new theory of fog as an illuminating medium. en 1988 Frederick L. Will Beyond Deduction 152 http://books.google.com/books?id=n98OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA152 To speak Hegelese for a moment, since the deductive processes so discriminated require for their own development, for their own self-realization, to be combined with and enriched by their ampliative complements, in the broad view of these matters required by an investigation of philosophical governance the opposition between them must be overcome. en 2005 w:Slavoj Žižek The metastases of enjoyment: six essays on women and causality 44–45 http://books.google.com/books?id=S4YUuzPiuPYC&pg=PA44 In Hegelese, the fatal weakness of representational language resides precisely in its representational character: in the fact that it remains stuck at the level of Vorstellung, of the external, finite representation that refers to some transcendent, external content. Related terms en Hegelian en eponyms