Hegel and the Third World: The Making of Eurocentrism in World History

Index

375 Index Abdel-Malek, Anouar, xvi, xxii, xxiii Aborigines, xvii absolute. See also God absolute, the: art as reconciliation of, 222, 223; as being-within-itself, 242; Buddhist worship of, 244; Christianity as, 7; as concrete , total abstraction, 326; diremption/ reconciliation with, 108; Hegel as, 242; Hegel’s history of, 3; Hegel’s system as, 14–15; Hindu consciousness of, 264–65, 266, 269, 271; raising oneself to, 33; war and, 325 absolute class, 110 absolute determinateness, 327 absolute equality, 238 absolute fear (fear of death), 54–55, 57–58, 61, 62–63, 65, 68, 69–70, 71 absolute freedom: development of, 56; German spirit and, 317; Greeks/Romans and, 51, 301; New World slavery as education for, 202; Orientals and, 84; realization of, 59 Absolute Idea, xii absolute independence, 58, 86, 272 absolute justice, 238 absolute knowledge, xii, xiv, 329 absolute Lord (death), 52, 54, 63, 65, 68, 69–70, 71 absolute objectification, 187 absolute reason, 329 absolute religion, 7, 14, 31, 183, 292, 307. See also Christianity; Protestantism absolute slavery, 198–200, 314 absolute sovereignty, 314 absolute sovereignty of reason, 145–46 Absolute Spirit, 2, 17–18, 222–23, 329 absolute subjectivity, 256 absolute truth, 8–9, 155, 223, 317 absolute unity, 86, 272 absolute value, 256 absolute will, 313, 323 absolutism, 331 abstract right, 159 abstract sense of consciousness, xii abstract spirituality, 160 abstract unity, 233, 234, 262 abstract universality: Brahma as, 271; categories of in Oriental world, 232–34; Christianity’s sublation of, 92; Egyptians and, 278, 288, 293; Europe’s emergence from, 92; Hegel’s universality as, 330; Indians and, 270; Islam/Judaism as religion of, 87, 160–61; in Rome, 159, 307, 308–9, 311, 316 Abyssinians, 116, 117 Achilles, 302, 305 active principle, 105, 109 actuality, 139–40 Adorno, Theodor, 9–10, 311n4 Adwa, battle of, 61, 211, 335 376 Index Aesthetics (Hegel): on art of India, 267; on biological determinism, 103; on Egyptian art, 284–85, 287; on forms of artistic representation, 219; on Indian caste system, 253; on injustice/oppression, 325; on knowledge of sense-certainty, 343; on life of spirit, 28; on man as animal, 181; on man in state of nature, 34; on military/cultural victories of West, 298; on modern state, 218; on opposition between nature/spirit, 25; on race, 98–99; on women/love, 107 Africa: classifications of, 80, 172, 330; geographic features of, 80; Hegelian regions of, 80–81, 98, 172, 217, 224; as land of concentration, xiv; races of, 172n2; as unhistorical region, 141. See also Africa proper; Asian Africa; European Africa African despotism, 212–19 African humanism, xix Africans: as animal man, xviii, 4, 101–2, 105, 178–82, 196–99, 229; art of, 219, 221–24; Baker on, 226; Blumenbach’s/Grégoire’s view of, 115; as cannibals, xviii, 117, 226, 229; capacity for education, 83, 90, 144, 182; characterization of, xiv, 83, 92, 104, 175–77, 198, 204, 206, 213, 216, 224, 226, 229, 240; Christianity and, 88–89, 319; class of, 111; culture of, 174; Cuvier on, 114; encounters with negative modernity, xvii–xviii, 91, 184 (see also colonialism ; slavery); enslavement of, 144, 147, 150, 198–204, 214, 320, 349; Europeans’ views of, 226; family relations, 198–99, 204, 206–8; Gobineau’s view of, 126–27, 128; Hegel’s contempt for, 78–79, 80, 140, 173–82, 331, 332; Herder’s view of, 116, 117–19; Hume on, 113; identity of, 349; Kant’s view of, 121–22; Linné’s view of, 113; needs of, 184–85; options for handling Western modernity, xviii–xix; physical characteristics of, 82, 101–2, 114, 117, 118; politics of, 83, 211–19; racist sensual perception of, 345; religion of, 83, 177–78, 183–97, 225; role in civilization of universal, 339; Romans compared to, 315; Schlegel’s view of, 125; sexuality of, 105; social relations of, 196; as spirit, 185–86; in state of nature, xii, xviii, 101–2, 173–82, 185–86, 187–89, 190–92, 195–97, 198, 202, 206–7, 211–13, 215–16, 218, 221, 222–24, 265, 295; struggle for recognition, 349; as unhistorical people, xviii, 87, 97, 123, 135, 141–50, 173–76, 222–24, 227–28, 229, 350; value for human life, 196–99, 209–11, 261; view of time, 194, 207, 237; women as, 108 Africa proper: contemporary discourse on, 173n3, 174; as dark continent, 227–28; environmental restraints on development of, 165, 167, 174–75; Europeans’ affirmation of Hegel’s views of, 225–28...