Convoluted vs Hegelese - What's the difference?
convoluted | hegelese |
Having numerous overlapping coils or folds.
Complex, intricate or complicated.
(philosophy) The convoluted, obscure style of writing associated with the works of
*{{quote-book, c. 1886, , Lowell's Works, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=dnA3AAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA122, page=122, chapter=Don Quixote
, passage=We have felt it ourselves when the obvious meaning of Shakespeare has been rewritten into Hegelese , by some Doctor of Philosophy
*{{quote-book, 1988, Frederick L. Will, Beyond Deduction, page=152, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=n98OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA152
, passage=To speak Hegelese for a moment, since the deductive processes so discriminated require for their own development, for their own self-realization, to be combined with and enriched by their ampliative complements, in the broad view of these matters required by an investigation of philosophical governance the opposition between them must be overcome.}}
*{{quote-book, 2005, , The metastases of enjoyment: six essays on women and causality, pages=44-45, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=S4YUuzPiuPYC&pg=PA44
, passage=In Hegelese , the fatal weakness of representational language resides precisely in its representational character: in the fact that it remains stuck at the level of Vorstellung ,
As an adjective convoluted
is having numerous overlapping coils or folds.As a proper noun hegelese is
(philosophy) the convoluted, obscure style of writing associated with the works of.convoluted
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He gave a convoluted explanation that amounted to little more than a weak excuse for his absence.