The present book is thus neither The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hegel, nor is it yet another university… — Slavoj Žižek
The present book is thus neither The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hegel, nor is it yet another university textbook on Hegel (which would be for morons, of course); it is something like The Imbecile's Guide to Hegel—Hegel for those whose IQ is somewhere close to their bodily temperature (in Celsius), as the insult goes.
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