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The Cinema of David Lynch: American Dreams, Nightmare Visions
The Cinema of David Lynch: American Dreams, Nightmare Visions announces itself, even before the first sentence of its introduction, as a volume intent on mirroring the director’s own “double exposure” of American optimism and subterranean dread. In the editors’ opening pages, Buck Wolf’s anecdote about Lynch’s mutilated fibreglass cow—refused a place in New York’s civic…
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Hegel and Christian Theology: A Reading of the Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion
Peter C. Hodgson’s Hegel and Christian Theology: A Reading of the Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion unfolds as a sustained act of philosophical midwifery: it draws the speculative life‑blood from the critical edition of Hegel’s four Berlin lecture series (1821, 1824, 1827, 1831) and lets it circulate anew through the capillaries of contemporary theology. The book appears in tandem…
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Alexandre Kojève’s Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit
Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit stands as one of the twentieth century’s rare philosophical milestones, a work that both revived and reoriented an entire French understanding of Hegel’s magnum opus. Born in the ferment of pre‑World War II Paris, these lectures—delivered by Alexandre Kojève between 1933 and 1939…
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The Search for Historical Meaning: Hegel and the Postwar American Right
In The Search for Historical Meaning: Hegel and the Postwar American Right, Paul Gottfried analyses the ideological evolution of the American conservative movement in the post-World War II era, examining an often unacknowledged debt to Hegelian philosophy within the conservative thought of key intellectual figures. Gottfried’s exploration seeks to uncover how thinkers like Will Herberg,…
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Philosophy without Foundations: Rethinking Hegel
Philosophy without Foundations: Rethinking Hegel by William Maker is an unrelenting philosophical treatise that boldly seeks to dismantle the inherited caricatures of Hegel as a metaphysical absolutist and dogmatic systematizer by rereading him through the prism of contemporary antifoundationalist critique. In a rigorous and sustained engagement with both the tradition of German Idealism and the…
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Marx and Hegel on the Dialectic of the Individual and the Social
Marx and Hegel on the Dialectic of the Individual and the Social by Sevgi Doğan is a philosophically rigorous, politically charged, and historically grounded study that embarks on a systematic reconstruction of one of modernity’s most vexing and fundamental questions: the nature and role of the individual within the social totality. Rooted in the dialectical…
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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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Slavoj Žižek: Rethinking the Left and Reclaiming Education in the Age of Trump
Slavoj Žižek, in his characteristically confrontational and dialectical manner, asserts that the political left has long been in a state of decline, tracing its terminal crisis to the aftermath of the events of 1968, which he provocatively labels a false liberation. Rather than achieving genuine emancipation, Žižek argues that the cultural and political upheavals of…
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Slavoj Žižek on Trump, the Collapse of the Left, and the Transformation of American Politics
Slavoj Žižek, in his analysis of the global political situation offers a sweeping and unflinchingly critical diagnosis of the contemporary geopolitical order, locating the rise of Donald Trump not as a deviation or historical anomaly but rather as a concentrated symptom of broader, long-developing systemic failures. According to Žižek, Trump’s emergence on the political stage…
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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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Friendly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and the Hope for Its Future
In Friendly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and the Hope for Its Future, Ami Ayalon’s deeply personal reflections combine with the political realities, strategic conundrums, and psychological evolutions that have shaped both his own life and the state he has served so profoundly. The book’s pages carry the weight of his vast…
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Welt und Zeit—From Zizians to Zizekians, 22:39—5. March 2025
From the earliest rumblings of philosophical rumination on the nature of being, there has always dwelled a fascination with the exchanges between ruptures in social order and the structures of thought that attempt to subdue or master them. Yet in an era where so many convictions claim to grasp the meaning of world and time,…
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Welt und Zeit—With Us, Capitalism is Genocide, 21:44—5. March 2025
World and time, as an unfolding of existential and historical questioning, compels us to confront the fundamental structures of being-in-the-world. Yet the gravity of our historical moment demands that we focus our reflections upon capitalism as a manifestation of an ever-unfolding logic of annihilation. This annihilation, hidden beneath the veneer of progress and technological advancement,…
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Welt und Zeit—Emerging Fields, 12:03—1. March 2025
Just as knowledge advances by questioning its own presuppositions, so too do emerging fields of study arise when reality presents phenomena that confound established categories. These nascent disciplines – often interdisciplinary and liminal in nature – reflect a transformation in the ontological landscape of the present age. They beckon philosophy to interrogate not only their…
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Welt und Zeit—Acumen & Evil, 04:48—1. March 2025
Acumen, that razor-edged acuity of mind, occupies a paradoxical space at the intersection of knowledge and morality. It denotes a keen, incisive intelligence—a capacity to discern subtleties and penetrate complexities—and yet this very sharpness can cut either way. We often celebrate acumen as a virtue of the intellect, but the ontological question arises: what is…
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Welt und Zeit—Tutankamon, The Son-King, 22:58—27. February 2025
Time and myth combine in a tense fabric of human reality, where ancient narratives echo through the ages to fracture eras and fuel conflicts. In the present day’s turbulent political events, one discerns the shadows of primordial mythological structures—old gods and founding heroes haunting modern battlefields. The life of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankamon (Tutankhamun) offers…
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Welt und Zeit—The Micropolitics of Borders, 18:07—27. February 2025
In the aftermath of our collective reflections, it becomes necessary to redirect our gaze toward an investigation of those subtle thresholds that so often remain invisible yet determine the structure of political existence. In this, the analysis delves into what Michel Foucault famously labeled the micropolitics of power, but here specifically applied to borders, their…
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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
In the wake of my previous contemplations and explorations in In the Wake of Thought, where the stirring question of thought’s perpetual unfolding demanded ever deeper considerations of human agency and temporal unfolding, it becomes necessary now to gather the threads of ontology, history, and politics in a new tapestry titled Welt und Zeit (World…
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