Abstract

It is ironic that deconstructive criticism reveals itself most patently as neo-formalism in its treatment of Hegel. Sallis’s book resumes all the by-now-canonical elements of the Derridean conception of Hegel: Hegel as the philosopher of “closure” par excellence, Hegel as the last figure in “the metaphysics of presence,” Hegel as the philosopher most clever at dissembling his ideological preoccupations behind a facade of “reason.”