إنّ التخلّص الحقيقي من هيغل يقتضي تقديرًا دقيقًا للثمن الذي يتعيّن علينا دفعه كي ننفصل عنه. ويفترض ذلك أن نعي مدى قربه منا، ربما على نحوٍ ماكر؛ ويستلزم معرفةً، في الوسيلة التي تتيح لنا التفكير ضده، بما لا يزال هيغليًّا. وعلينا أن نحدّد مدى احتمال أن تكون معاداتنا لهيغل إحدى حيله الموجهة ضدنا، والتي يقف في نهايتها ساكنًا، ينتظرنا.

“[T]ruly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes that we are aware of the extent to which Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it implies a knowledge, in that which permits us to think against Hegel, of that which remains Hegelian. We have to determine the extent to which our anti-Hegelianism is possibly one of his tricks directed against us, at the end of which he stands, motionless, waiting for us.”Michel Foucault — The Archaeology of Knowledge (2012)