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This chapter addresses the relationship of some prominent Egyptian thinkers and intellectuals to the thought of Hegel, such as Hasan Hanafī and Imām ʿAbd al-Fattāh Imām, and outlines some features which seem to characterize Hegel’s reception in Egypt in general and to distinguish it from the one in Syria and Lebanon.
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At the base of “Orientalism” there is a subject–object relationship in which the Orientals and the Orient are objects of study and are not subjects. Hanafī’s idea is to invert this relationship and produce a vision of history and of the West that is functional to its own position.
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The translation from German is mine.
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Ghālī speaks of a Hegelian “school” in Egypt, referring in particular to the “greats,” who first carried out Hegel’s reading according to the guidelines of Marxism, and whose work—even if it is to be revised—remains fundamental to contemporary studies in Egypt.
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Ventura, L. (2018). The Reception of Hegel in Egypt and the “Spirit of Time” (Zeitgeist). In: Hegel in the Arab World. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78066-5_18
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