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Hegel's philosophy looms large over the academic humanities, but mostly in distorted form. This is a pity, because a more robust engagement with Hegel could help us out of many impasses and conceptual tangles in our fields, from questions of value and evaluation to the oppositions between form and content, surface and depth, historicism and formalism, and more. This course is designed to introduce you to key concepts in Hegel, to offer a guide to some of the most exciting new scholarship on his thinking, and to develop a collective sense of its possible use for our writing and research. We will finish the term with a brief survey of the ways the 20th- and 21st-century humanities have learned to work with a cartoon version of Hegel, and compare it to what he might actually be good for.