ABSTRACT
For Hegel, the unfolding of the substance-subject in its logical and chronological modes is now complete. The substance-subject, in which the accident becomes essential, and the substance-subject, in which essence becomes accidental, merge as one in the unity of absolute knowledge. On the level of history, the advent of Absolute Knowledge corresponds to the end of history. As Bernard Bourgeois asserts,
In substance, Hegel is saying: ‘History, in principle, is over.’ Of course things will continue to happen, but they will not relate to the universal meaning of human life: in this area, nothing new or fundamentally important will be said.1
