Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice.
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"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice" is a well-known line quoted and reworked by Karl Marx in his 1852 political essay *The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte* to introduce his analysis of historical repetition and farce.
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| instanceOf |
literary motif
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philosophical remark ⓘ quotation ⓘ |
| author | Karl Marx NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalStatus |
frequently cited passage
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well-known line ⓘ |
| discipline |
Marxist theory
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historiography ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | "the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce" ⓘ |
| functionInText | sets up contrast between tragedy and farce ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose sentence ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
Second French Republic
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post-1848 European revolutions ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Hegelian philosophy of history NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| interpretation | suggests patterns in world-historic events ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| medium | printed text ⓘ |
| oftenQuotedWith | "the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce" ⓘ |
| originallyAttributedTo | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1852 ⓘ |
| quotationSource | opening section of "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" ⓘ |
| reception |
subject of scholarly commentary
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widely anthologized in Marxist literature ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
dialectics
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historical materialism ⓘ world-historical individual ⓘ |
| thematicContext |
historical repetition
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philosophy of history ⓘ world history ⓘ |
| usedAs | introductory motif ⓘ |
| usedToIntroduce |
analysis of Louis Bonaparte
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analysis of the 1851 coup d'état in France ⓘ |
| workTypeContext | political essay ⓘ |
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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice.
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