dialectics
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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.
From Washington Post
The theater, built on messy dialectics, is resistant to ideology.
From Los Angeles Times
In times of conspiracy theories and filter bubbles, Hegel’s method of thinking – dialectics – can become a kind of intellectual self-help.
From The Guardian
The German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel spoke of political “dialectics,” in which opposites — the “thesis” and its “antithesis” — are resolved into a “synthesis.”
From Washington Post
The dialectics of that change of mood are instructive.
From Salon
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