The Culture of the Excluded Middle, 1914-1989 A Preliminary Investigation

Abstract

topographical critics might say.l Then how does one approach the 'excluded middle?' Does one start from an absence? Can the absence of a 'middle' quality be used to prove something? Our task is not to define the 'middle' out of the negative. Rather, the 'excluded middle' argues a consistent, complementary cultural tendency for much of the twentieth century, which was a period of 'unhappiness,' as understood by Hegel. In his The Philosophy of History, Hegel writes: 'Periods of happiness are empty pages in history, for they are the periods of harmony, times when the antithesis is missing' (Hegel 1988: 29). To draw an outline of the problem presented here in other terms, we are looking at how post World War One thinkers coped with various antitheses.

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