%0 Thesis %A WALLACE, CHRISTOPHER %D 2017 %T Walking in Place: Time and Totality in Hegel's Modernity %U https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/Walking_in_Place_Time_and_Totality_in_Hegel_s_Modernity/5277076 %R 10.4225/03/5987ada4b60d8 %2 https://bridges.monash.edu/ndownloader/files/9042472 %K Hegel %K Kant %K German Idealism %K Time %K Politics of Time %K Modernity %K Dialectics %K Philosophy %K Political Theory and Political Philosophy %X What philosophy questions is both the idea of the present as being contained within itself, and the idea that a future merely follows in the passing of time. The claim made in this thesis is that to be self-contained necessitates the effacement of difference, which is not only a form of domination, but precludes the possibility of a future by reducing existence to parameters that already govern the present. Via a reading of G.W.F Hegel, it is argued that the future’s possibility depends upon the recovery of difference from the past, a past that is discontinuous with the present. %I Monash University