Hegel and Cavell on Meaning and Sublation

Hegel is not an author who plays a starring role in Cavell’s work like that of Austin, Wittgenstein, or Emerson. Cavell mentions him rarely, and almost always passing. This hardly surprising. Given draws as heavily he does upon Kant, whom regularly attacks, Kierkegaard, attacks Hegel, one might expect Hegel’s more important claims ideas would be uncongenial to Cavell, incompatible with the main lines his work. Moreover, early lasting embrace Romanticism seem preclude lambasts leading Jena Romantic Friedrich von Schlegel purveyor corrosive amoral subjectivism. Appearances, however, can deceiving, essay follows I demonstrate there are good reasons believe has influenced considerably than suppose.