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dialectics

/ ˌdaɪəˈlɛktɪks /

noun

  1. the study of reasoning or of argumentative methodology
  2. a particular methodology or system; a logic
  3. the application of the Hegelian dialectic or the rationale of dialectical materialism
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Mondrian’s motto — “each element is determined by its contrary” — drew on Hegel’s dialectics, according to which oppositions pitted against one another result not in stasis but in constant evolution.

The theater, built on messy dialectics, is resistant to ideology.

In times of conspiracy theories and filter bubbles, Hegel’s method of thinking – dialectics – can become a kind of intellectual self-help.

The German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel spoke of political “dialectics,” in which opposites — the “thesis” and its “antithesis” — are resolved into a “synthesis.”

The dialectics of that change of mood are instructive.

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