Hegel's Map

Hegel's Map

760mm×560mm
Mixed media, Indian Khadi Paper
2011

A diagrammatic map based on the philosopher Hegel's l idea of consistent 'progress' in the development of human culture's, particularly influential in Western Humanism. However, the theory has been critiqued, and claimed to be unfounded, based on a hang over of Judeo Christian religious ideas of the evolution of the human soul towards a 'heaven on earth'. The belief has endorsed Western notions of superiority in the colonialism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.