American philosopher at the University of Chicago who is one of the leading interpreters of Hegel and Nietzsche — and who extended Hegelian analysis to film and literature — making the German idealist tradition accessible to contemporary humanists.
Argued that Hegel's philosophy is best understood as a theory of social freedom — that freedom is not a property of isolated individuals but of rational social practices — making Hegel directly relevant to contemporary political philosophy and available to non-specialists.
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