Category: Philosophy
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Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx
In Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx, Michael Lazarus offers an unparalleled reconstruction of Karl Marx’s critique of capitalism as a deeply ethical project—one whose normative depth and philosophical ambition have often been overlooked or mischaracterized. This book resolutely breaks from reductive readings of Marx as a narrowly economic thinker or an ideologue of…
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After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism
Robert B. Pippin’s After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism is a methodologically radical philosophical intervention into the aesthetic self-understanding of modernity. It interrogates the possibility of philosophical reflection on the visual arts after the disintegration of traditional aesthetic norms, reworking the philosophical legacy of Hegel in light of the pictorial upheavals…
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The Science of Spirit: Emergence of the New Logic
PREFACE Over the last twenty-five years, the very ground on which we conduct philosophy has been torn open and reshaped. What once seemed an immutable landscape of neat categories and settled doctrines now reveals itself as a living, breathing field of conceptual forces in continual motion. Thought has turned its gaze inward, no longer willing…
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Žižek’s Living in the End Times
In Living in the End Times, Slavoj Žižek plunges us into the vertiginous space where the collapse of global capitalism converges with the apocalypse of our collective imagination. From the first pages, Žižek insists that there can be no more illusions: the “four riders of the apocalypse”—the ecological meltdown, the internal imbalances of the market…
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Friedrich Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (1883–1885)
Nietzsche · WorksNietzscheCollected WorksCritical Edition Edited byGiorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari Sixth DivisionVolume OneWalter de Gruyter & Co.Berlin 1968 Friedrich NietzscheThus Spoke ZarathustraA Book for All and None(1883–1885) Walter de Gruyter & Co.Berlin 1968Archive No. 3659681 © 1968 by Walter de Gruyter & Co., formerly G. J. Göschen’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung —J. Guttentag, Verlagsbuchhandlung — Georg Reimer…
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🎧 In the Wake of Thought Now Available in Audiobook Format
Link: YouTube We are proud to announce that In the Wake of Thought: The Dialectics of Scientific Knowledge is now slowly rolling out in audiobook format. Narrated in a precise yet engaging tone that mirrors the work’s philosophical depth, this new release brings the book’s complex meditations on science, reason, and dialectical method to life.…
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Audiobook Release: Hegel’s Works from the Gymnasium Years (1785–1788) With Footnotes
Link: YouTube Hegel’s Works from the Gymnasium Years (1785–1788), translated by Simon Gros and narrated by Leda Eliza, continues the presentation of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s earliest surviving writings, following directly after Hegel’s Diary (1785–1787). Written during his final years at the Stuttgart Gymnasium and early days at the Tübingen Seminary, these texts offer a…
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Audiobook Premiere: Hegel’s Diary (1785–1787) – Annotated and Read Aloud
Link: YouTube With Hegel’s Diary (1785–1787) now available in immersive audiobook form—complete with explanatory footnotes—you can experience the formative reflections of the young Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel anywhere, anytime.
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Hegel’s Studies & Four Sermons (1792-1794) With Explanatory Footnotes
Table of Contents Four Sermons (1792–1793)First SermonSecond SermonThird SermonFourth Sermon Studies (1792/93–1794)In What Respect Is Religion…But the Principle Material…Our Tradition…Already in the Architecture…Religion Is One of the Most Important Matters…Aside from Oral Instruction…It Cannot Be Denied…The Constitutions of States…How Little Objective Religion…Public Authority…On the Difference in the Scene of DeathOn Objective Religion…It Would Be a…
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Hegel’s Works from the Gymnasium Years (1785–1788) With Explanatory Footnotes
Contents: Works from the Gymnasium Years: An Essay from the Tübingen Seminary (1785–1788)Conversation Between Three PersonsSome Remarks on the Representation of MagnitudeOn the Religion of the Greeks and RomansOn Some Characteristic Differences Among the Ancient PoetsFrom a Speech Given at Graduation Upon Leaving from the GymnasiumOn Some Benefits We Gain from Reading the Classical Greek…
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The Pure Law Within: Foundations of Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals
Philosophy, in its ancient Greek articulation, was divided into three principal branches: physics, ethics, and logic. This tripartite schema is not arbitrary but corresponds intimately to the structure of human reason itself, and thus it remains a fitting and enduring classification. Little requires amendment in this scheme, save perhaps the addition of a unifying principle—one…
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Fragment of Aristotle’s On the Ethics to Nicomachus
Dionysius Lambinus To the Most Illustrious, Most Eminent Lord Francis Turonio, of the Holy Roman Church, Cardinal, Greetings. How splendidly you shine, O most illustrious and most highly adorned Cardinal, for you unite praise and virtue—each of which, taken alone, is immensely powerful—and are all the more so when both concur in one and the…
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The Oration of Demosthenes ‘On the Crown’
Demosthenes — On the Crown First, men of Athens, I pray to all the gods and goddesses that the goodwill I have always maintained toward the city and toward every one of you may, in this trial, be returned to me from you. Next—and this matters most for your own piety and reputation—may the gods…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Early Writings I
Table of Contents Diary (1785–1787) Works from the Gymnasium Years: An Essay from the Tübingen Seminary (1785–1788)Conversation Between Three PersonsSome Remarks on the Representation of MagnitudeOn the Religion of the Greeks and RomansOn Some Characteristic Differences Among the Ancient PoetsFrom a Speech Given at Graduation from the GymnasiumOn Some Benefits We Gain from Reading the…
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Žižek on Trump: The Rise of a Post-Normative Political Figure and the Crisis of Liberal Authority
Slavoj Žižek’s extended critique of Donald Trump, presented through a philosophical and psychoanalytic lens, transcends superficial political commentary and ventures into the structural and libidinal economies of contemporary liberalism. The argument Žižek builds does not merely rest upon the observation of Trump’s obscenity or populist tactics; rather, it positions Trump as the symptomatic revelation of…
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Welt und Zeit—From Zizians to Zizekians, 22:39—5. March 2025
Intro Ontology Illusion Metaphilosophy Disaster Destiny Censorship Failure of Internationalism Fragmentation of Ontology Of the Abyss & the Void Disgusting Sexuality End of a War Micropolitics of Borders Metaphysical Implied Corporeal Hypothesis Tutankamon, The Son-King Acumen & Evil Emerging Fields With Us, Capitalism is Genocide From Zizians to Zizekians From the earliest rumblings of philosophical…
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Welt und Zeit—With Us, Capitalism is Genocide, 21:44—5. March 2025
Intro Ontology Illusion Metaphilosophy Disaster Destiny Censorship Failure of Internationalism Fragmentation of Ontology Of the Abyss & the Void Disgusting Sexuality End of a War Micropolitics of Borders Metaphysical Implied Corporeal Hypothesis Tutankamon, The Son-King Acumen & Evil Emerging Fields With Us, Capitalism is Genocide From Zizians to Zizekians World and time, as an unfolding…
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Welt und Zeit—Emerging Fields, 12:03—1. March 2025
Intro Ontology Illusion Metaphilosophy Disaster Destiny Censorship Failure of Internationalism Fragmentation of Ontology Of the Abyss & the Void Disgusting Sexuality End of a War Micropolitics of Borders Metaphysical Implied Corporeal Hypothesis Tutankamon, The Son-King Acumen & Evil Emerging Fields With Us, Capitalism is Genocide From Zizians to Zizekians Just as knowledge advances by questioning…
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Welt und Zeit—Acumen & Evil, 04:48—1. March 2025
Intro Ontology Illusion Metaphilosophy Disaster Destiny Censorship Failure of Internationalism Fragmentation of Ontology Of the Abyss & the Void Disgusting Sexuality End of a War Micropolitics of Borders Metaphysical Implied Corporeal Hypothesis Tutankamon, The Son-King Acumen & Evil Emerging Fields With Us, Capitalism is Genocide From Zizians to Zizekians Acumen, that razor-edged acuity of mind,…
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Welt und Zeit—Tutankamon, The Son-King, 22:58—27. February 2025
Intro Ontology Illusion Metaphilosophy Disaster Destiny Censorship Failure of Internationalism Fragmentation of Ontology Of the Abyss & the Void Disgusting Sexuality End of a War Micropolitics of Borders Metaphysical Implied Corporeal Hypothesis Tutankamon, The Son-King Acumen & Evil Emerging Fields With Us, Capitalism is Genocide From Zizians to Zizekians Time and myth combine in a…
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Welt und Zeit—The Micropolitics of Borders, 18:07—27. February 2025
Intro Ontology Illusion Metaphilosophy Disaster Destiny Censorship Failure of Internationalism Fragmentation of Ontology Of the Abyss & the Void Disgusting Sexuality End of a War Micropolitics of Borders Metaphysical Implied Corporeal Hypothesis Tutankamon, The Son-King Acumen & Evil Emerging Fields With Us, Capitalism is Genocide From Zizians to Zizekians In the aftermath of our collective…
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Eraserhead, The David Lynch Files: Volume 1: The Full Story of One of the Strangest Films Ever Made.
A mesmerizing portrait of artistic perseverance and cinematic innovation, Eraserhead, The David Lynch Files: Volume 1 by Kenneth George Godwin unfolds as a strikingly thorough account of one of cinema’s most confounding and compelling debuts. Written at a time when the film was still a fresh wound in the collective imagination, it combines rigorous journalistic…
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Welt und Zeit—The End of a War, 21:00—24. February 2025
Intro Ontology Illusion Metaphilosophy Disaster Destiny Censorship Failure of Internationalism Fragmentation of Ontology Of the Abyss & the Void Disgusting Sexuality End of a War Micropolitics of Borders Metaphysical Implied Corporeal Hypothesis Tutankamon, The Son-King Acumen & Evil Emerging Fields With Us, Capitalism is Genocide From Zizians to Zizekians In the wake of my previous…
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Welt und Zeit—Disgusting Sexuality, Sex & Disgust, 20:35—23. February 2025
Intro Ontology Illusion Metaphilosophy Disaster Destiny Censorship Failure of Internationalism Fragmentation of Ontology Of the Abyss & the Void Disgusting Sexuality End of a War Micropolitics of Borders Metaphysical Implied Corporeal Hypothesis Tutankamon, The Son-King Acumen & Evil Emerging Fields With Us, Capitalism is Genocide From Zizians to Zizekians The intersection of sexuality is struck…
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Welt und Zeit—Of the Abyss & the Void, 20:27—22. February 2025
Intro Ontology Illusion Metaphilosophy Disaster Destiny Censorship Failure of Internationalism Fragmentation of Ontology Of the Abyss & the Void Disgusting Sexuality End of a War Micropolitics of Borders Metaphysical Implied Corporeal Hypothesis Tutankamon, The Son-King Acumen & Evil Emerging Fields With Us, Capitalism is Genocide From Zizians to Zizekians In the tremors of our contemporary…
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Welt und Zeit—Censorship, 18:01—12. Februar 2025
Intro Ontology Illusion Metaphilosophy Disaster Destiny Censorship Failure of Internationalism Fragmentation of Ontology Of the Abyss & the Void Disgusting Sexuality End of a War Micropolitics of Borders Metaphysical Implied Corporeal Hypothesis Tutankamon, The Son-King Acumen & Evil Emerging Fields With Us, Capitalism is Genocide From Zizians to Zizekians Censorship is the strategic suppression of…
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Welt und Zeit—Destiny, 10:47—12. Februar 2025
Intro Ontology Illusion Metaphilosophy Disaster Destiny Censorship Failure of Internationalism Fragmentation of Ontology Of the Abyss & the Void Disgusting Sexuality End of a War Micropolitics of Borders Metaphysical Implied Corporeal Hypothesis Tutankamon, The Son-King Acumen & Evil Emerging Fields With Us, Capitalism is Genocide From Zizians to Zizekians Destiny names the abiding sense that…
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Welt und Zeit—Disaster, 18:19—11. Februar 2025
Intro Ontology Illusion Metaphilosophy Disaster Destiny Censorship Failure of Internationalism Fragmentation of Ontology Of the Abyss & the Void Disgusting Sexuality End of a War Micropolitics of Borders Metaphysical Implied Corporeal Hypothesis Tutankamon, The Son-King Acumen & Evil Emerging Fields With Us, Capitalism is Genocide From Zizians to Zizekians Disaster is a threshold concept that…
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Welt und Zeit—Illusion, 17:36—11. Februar 2025
Intro Ontology Illusion Metaphilosophy Disaster Destiny Censorship Failure of Internationalism Fragmentation of Ontology Of the Abyss & the Void Disgusting Sexuality End of a War Micropolitics of Borders Metaphysical Implied Corporeal Hypothesis Tutankamon, The Son-King Acumen & Evil Emerging Fields With Us, Capitalism is Genocide From Zizians to Zizekians Illusion occupies a paradoxical position at…
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Welt und Zeit—Ontology, 17:23—11. Februar 2025
Intro Ontology Illusion Metaphilosophy Disaster Destiny Censorship Failure of Internationalism Fragmentation of Ontology Of the Abyss & the Void Disgusting Sexuality End of a War Micropolitics of Borders Metaphysical Implied Corporeal Hypothesis Tutankamon, The Son-King Acumen & Evil Emerging Fields With Us, Capitalism is Genocide From Zizians to Zizekians Ontology is the relentless unveiling of…
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Not Even a God Can Save Us Now: Reading Machiavelli after Heidegger
In Not Even a God Can Save Us Now: Reading Machiavelli after Heidegger, Brian Harding makes an uncompromising examination of how Niccolò Machiavelli’s insight into violence, sacrifice, and political foundations resonates with, and even anticipates, the sometimes elusive and frequently provocative inquiries of twentieth- and twenty-first-century continental philosophy. Harding’s study combines historical awareness, hermeneutical sensitivity,…
