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• Heidegger’s Roots: Nietzsche, National Socialism, and the Greeks

  What Charles Bambach examines in Heidegger’s Roots: Nietzsche, National Socialism, and the Greeks is not yet another catalogue of incriminating biographical episodes nor a gesture of apologetic compartmentalization, but a tightly wound reconstruction of a discursive field—linguistic, philological, philosophical, and political—within which Martin Heidegger’s thinking from 1933 to 1945 was composed, staged, and made to…

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  September 2, 2025

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• The Perfection of Freedom: Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel between the Ancients and the Moderns

  D. C. Schindler’s The Perfection of Freedom: Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel between the Ancients and the Moderns presents a sustained philosophical attempt to unseat the tacit hegemony of a merely possibilistic conception of freedom and to recover, through an exacting dialogue with Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel, an account of freedom as actuality, completion, and form.…

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  September 2, 2025

  Philosophy

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• Hegel, Marx, and the Necessity and Freedom Dialectic: Marxist-Humanism and Critical Theory in the United States

  Hegel, Marx, and the Necessity and Freedom Dialectic: Marxist-Humanism and Critical Theory in the United States is a closely argued reconstruction of a problem that is at once conceptual and historical: how the Hegelian dialectic of necessity and freedom is taken up, transformed, and made socially determinate within Marx’s critique of political economy—and how that…

  S. Gros

  September 2, 2025

  Philosophy, Politics

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• Hegel for Social Movements

  Andy Blunden’s Hegel for Social Movements is a sustained attempt to re-situate Hegel’s system where it can do the most living work: in the intelligibility of collective action, the normative structure of practices, and the metamorphoses of concepts as they are enacted, contested, and institutionalized across the arc of social struggles. Its guiding wager is…

  S. Gros

  September 2, 2025

  Philosophy, Politics

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• ‘Notes on Dialectics: Hegel, Marx, Lenin’ by C.L.R. James

  C.L.R. James’s Notes on Dialectics: Hegel, Marx, Lenin presents itself less as a commentary on a fixed philosophical canon than as an extended exercise in the practice of dialectical cognition, a strenuous attempt to think the historical movement of the laboring masses and their forms of organization as the living content from which philosophical categories…

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  September 2, 2025

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• Žizek’s Œuvre, Over and Over

  Slavoj Žižek appears at once amused and wary as he confronts a journal issue devoted to his own corpus, a sentiment that sets the scene for a compact yet many-layered exchange with the editors and podcast hosts Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza. He confesses to postponing a close reading out of a characteristic fear of…

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  September 2, 2025

  Philosophy, Politics

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• ‘First Philosophy, Last Philosophy: Western Knowledge between Metaphysics and the Sciences’ by Giorgio Agamben

  Giorgio Agamben’s First Philosophy, Last Philosophy: Western Knowledge between Metaphysics and the Sciences undertakes an archaeological inquiry into the very concept that once named philosophy’s primacy among the epistēmai. What appears, on the surface, as a historical reconstruction of a technical term becomes, under his method, a strategic analysis of how the West sought to…

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  September 2, 2025

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• ‘On the History of Modern Philosophy’ by F. W. J. von Schelling

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling’s On the History of Modern Philosophy appears, in Andrew Bowie’s lucid English translation, as both a retrospective cartography of the main line of early-modern and post-Kantian philosophy and a programmatic intervention in the fate of Idealism itself. Not a mere chronicle, the work offers a disciplined reconstruction of the inner…

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  August 28, 2025

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• The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature

  Georg Lukács’s The Theory of the Novel is a meditation on the evolution and nature of the novel, written against the backdrop of a world on the cusp of dramatic transformation. Emerging from the intellectual milieu of Central Europe in the early 20th century—a time when Marxism, psychoanalysis, and existentialism were beginning to shape the…

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  August 27, 2025

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• Hegel and the State

  Franz Rosenzweig’s Hegel and the State (1920; first English translation 2024) is far more than an erudite study of Hegel’s political thought; it is a monumental philosophical biography, a tragic historical meditation, and an intellectual reckoning with the failure of German idealism’s promise when confronted with the realities of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century politics. Written…

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  August 26, 2025

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• Hegel’s Theory of the Modern State

  Shlomo Avineri’s Hegel’s Theory of the Modern State is a landmark work in the interpretation of Hegel’s political philosophy, not only because it offers a comprehensive reconstruction of the development of Hegel’s political thought across his entire career, but also because it succeeds in dissolving the long-standing caricatures of Hegel as either a rigid apologist…

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  August 26, 2025

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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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  July 22, 2025

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• Hegel’s Philosophy Of The State And Of History: An Exposition (1902)

  Hegel’s Philosophy of the State and of History: An Exposition, edited and interpreted by George Sylvester Morris, constitutes a formative landmark in the English-language reception of G.W.F. Hegel’s mature political and historical thought. Composed as part of the German Philosophical Classics for English Readers and Students series and first published in the late 19th century,…

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  July 21, 2025

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• An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History

  Stephen Houlgate’s An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History is more than a survey of one of modern philosophy’s most demanding thinkers but a comprehensive, conceptually rigorous, historically grounded, and systemically faithful reconstruction of the architecture and dynamism of G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophical system. More than an introduction in the superficial pedagogical sense, Houlgate’s work…

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  July 1, 2025

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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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  June 18, 2025

  Philosophy

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• Hegel’s Diary (1785–1787) With Explanatory Footnotes

  Sunday, June 26 1785 In the morning service, Reverend Rieger, the court preacher, gave the sermon. He first read the Augsburg Confession, beginning with its preface, and then the sermon followed. Even if I had remembered nothing else, my knowledge of history would nonetheless have been increased. I learned that on June 25, 1530, the…

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  May 31, 2025

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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…

  S. Gros

  May 15, 2025

  Philosophy

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• The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte

  This book is a journey into one of the most transformative eras in the history of modern thought, a thorough chronicle that illuminates the turbulent passage of German philosophy between the publication of Kant’s first Critique and Fichte’s early Wissenschaftslehre. It is presented with an extraordinary depth of research that captures the uncertainty and the…

  S. Gros

  March 29, 2025

  Philosophy

  books, dialectic, education, enlightenment, hegel, history, kant, metaphysics, Philosophy

• A Dialectic for Our Age: Slavoj Žižek’s Hegel Unbound

  Slavoj Žižek, in his contribution to the Experts on Hegel series, offers a radical, nuanced, and deeply contemporary reading of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s philosophical legacy, refusing to reduce Hegel to a relic of a bygone metaphysical age. Rather than enshrining him as a completed thinker whose system can be memorized and repeated, Žižek insists…

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  March 25, 2025

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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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  March 1, 2025

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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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  February 27, 2025

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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…

  S. Gros

  February 24, 2025

  Cinema, Philosophy

  art, books, Philosophy, poetry, Politics, writing

• 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…

  S. Gros

  February 23, 2025

  Philosophy

  book-review, books, emotions, Philosophy, relationships, sex

• 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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  February 22, 2025

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• Welt und Zeit—The Fragmentation of Ontology, 20:21—21. 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 In the unfolding of world and…

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  February 21, 2025

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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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  February 11, 2025

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• Welt und Zeit—Metaphilosophy, 18:06—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 Metaphilosophy, in its most expansive sense,…

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  February 11, 2025

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• The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism

  In an era where chaos reigns and disasters unfold with alarming frequency, Naomi Klein’s seminal work, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, emerged as an unsettling exploration of how power is wielded amidst turmoil. Heralded by luminaries such as John le Carré, who described it as “impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary…

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  January 30, 2025

  Philosophy

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• Reciprocity in Ancient Greece

  Reciprocity in Ancient Greece, edited by Christopher Gill, Norman Postlethwaite, and Richard Seaford, is a pivotal scholarly work that offers an unparalleled exploration into the foundational role of reciprocity within Greek civilization. This comprehensive anthology assembles a distinguished international cadre of experts who examine reciprocity not merely as an economic or social practice but as…

  S. Gros

  January 30, 2025

  Philosophy

  books, history, metaphysics, Philosophy, reciprocity, relationships

• G.W.F. Hegel: The Philosophical Propaedeutic

  The Philosophical Propaedeutic is a unique and invaluable entry in the corpus of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, offering an accessible yet profound encapsulation of his mature philosophical system. Composed between 1808 and 1811 as notes for his lectures, this work distills the complexities of Hegel’s thought into a form that retains both simplicity and depth,…

  S. Gros

  January 30, 2025

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• Before and after Hegel: A Historical Introduction to Hegel’s Thought

  Tom Rockmore’s Before and After Hegel: A Historical Introduction to Hegel’s Thought is a philosophically rich, historically embedded, and methodologically nuanced exploration of the philosophical currents that coalesce in the system of G.W.F. Hegel. This book transcends the narrow confines of systematic introductions, offering instead a sophisticated conceptual map that situates Hegel within the grand…

  S. Gros

  January 30, 2025

  Philosophy

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• Idealism and the Problem of Finitude: Heidegger and Hegel

  Idealism and the Problem of Finitude: Heidegger and Hegel by Robert B. Pippin presents itself as a penetrating and uncommonly comprehensive exploration of how the post-Kantian tradition, culminating in Hegel’s ambitious “logic as metaphysics,” comes under pressure from a profound critique of human finitude in the thought of Martin Heidegger. This paper argues that the…

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  January 30, 2025

  Philosophy

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• Hegel’s Century: Alienation and Recognition in a Time of Revolution

  Jon Stewart’s Hegel’s Century: Alienation and Recognition in a Time of Revolution represents a detailed and philosophically rigorous exploration of how G. W. F. Hegel’s thought shaped the intellectual landscape of the nineteenth century. In an era marked by immense upheaval—political revolutions, burgeoning nationalism, industrial transformation, and religious crisis—Hegel’s categories of “alienation” and “recognition” served…

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  January 30, 2025

  Philosophy

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• Hegel: A Biography

  Terry Pinkard’s Hegel: A Biography presents a masterful examination of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s life and thought, contextualized in the tumultuous intellectual and political landscape of late 18th and early 19th-century Europe. Pinkard offers more than a mere chronology of events, he analyses the philosophical currents that shaped Hegel’s worldview, placing him not only as…

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  January 30, 2025

  Philosophy

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• Philosophy of History: An Introduction

  William H. Walsh’s Philosophy of History: An Introduction, first published in 1951 and subsequently revised, stands as a pivotal exploration of how historians conceptualize, interpret, and present the past in light of philosophical reflection. It offers a long and deeply reasoned commentary on the processes by which historical knowledge is both formed and tested. Within…

  S. Gros

  January 24, 2025

  Philosophy

  books, hegel, historiography, history, kant, Philosophy, writing

• Freedom, in Context: Time, History, and Necessity in Hegel

  Freedom, in Context: Time, History, and Necessity in Hegel by Borna Radnik offers an extraordinarily comprehensive rethinking of Hegelian freedom in light of our most urgent contemporary contexts, while engaging the full breadth of Hegel’s logical, historical, and ontological framework. In a work that draws together classical German philosophy and twenty-first-century social struggles, Radnik proposes…

  S. Gros

  January 24, 2025

  Philosophy

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• Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy

  Andrew Bowie’s Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy offers an extraordinarily fertile questioning of what Theodor W. Adorno’s thought can mean for us today, illuminating a path through his dense theoretical landscapes while refusing to reduce that complexity to easy formulations. From the very start, the work underscores the ambiguities and challenges in Adorno’s legacy:…

  S. Gros

  January 19, 2025

  Philosophy

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• Philosophical Variations: Music as Philosophical Language

  In Philosophical Variations: Music as Philosophical Language, Andrew Bowie presents a collection of essays that offer a sweeping examination of how musical practice, philosophy, and literary understanding converge upon, challenge, and illuminate each other, thereby reshaping our sense of what it means to think and to listen. The author, Professor of Philosophy and German at…

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  January 19, 2025

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• Music, Philosophy, and Modernity

  Andrew Bowie’s Music, Philosophy, and Modernity offers a far-reaching exploration of how the confluence of musical practice and philosophy can illuminate core questions about meaning, subjectivity, and truth in the modern world, while simultaneously challenging entrenched assumptions about the very nature of philosophical reflection. In many prevailing accounts, music has been treated as a problem…

  S. Gros

  January 19, 2025

  Philosophy

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• Schelling and Modern European Philosophy: An Introduction

  Andrew Bowie’s Schelling and Modern European Philosophy offers an extraordinarily thorough, compelling, and philosophically rich presentation of F. W. J. Schelling as a pivotal figure in the history of European thought. It is, in every sense, the first text in English to elevate Schelling from his long-standing status as a mere footnote to Kant or,…

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  January 19, 2025

  Philosophy

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• Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of World History

  LECTURESON THEPHILOSOPHYOFWORLD HISTORY Volume 1: Manuscripts of the Introductionand The Lectures of 1822–1823 GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL LECTURES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OFWORLD HISTORYVOLUME 1MANUSCRIPTS OF THE INTRODUCTIONANDTHE LECTURES OF 1822–1823 Edited and Translated byRobert E. Brown and Peter C. Hodgson with the assistance ofWilliam G. Geuss Digital edition bySimon Gros This volume is a translation…

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  January 16, 2025

  Philosophy

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• Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson

  In the tumultuous landscape of neoliberal post-modernity, few intellectual figures have ignited as much fervent debate and polarized discourse as Jordan Peterson. Rising to prominence in the 2010s, Peterson’s meteoric ascent was fuelled by his contentious stance against what he terms “postmodern neo-Marxism,” alongside his forays into a diverse array of subjects ranging from lobster…

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  January 12, 2025

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• Freedom and Nature in Schelling’s Philosophy of Art

  Freedom and Nature in Schelling’s Philosophy of Art by Devin Zane Shaw presents an exhaustive philosophical analysis of the relationship between freedom, nature, and art in the thought of Friedrich Schelling. This work illuminates the evolution of Schelling’s philosophical system from his early engagements with Kantian and Fichtean idealism through to his theological turn in…

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  January 12, 2025

  Philosophy

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• The Philosophical Rupture between Fichte and Schelling: Selected Texts and Correspondence (1800–1802)

  In The Philosophical Rupture Between Fichte and Schelling, editors Michael G. Vater and David W. Wood offer an unparalleled entry point into the contentious and transformative relationship between two of post-Kantian philosophy’s towering figures: Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling. This carefully curated volume not only illuminates the intellectual trajectories of these thinkers…

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  January 8, 2025

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• Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

  Katja Hoyer’s Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949–1990 is a monumental work of historical excavation, an incisive and deeply textured reconstruction of a state that vanished yet lingers in memory, myth, and the fault lines of German identity. This extraordinary book offers nothing less than the definitive account of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), navigating…

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  January 4, 2025

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• Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the “Phenomenology of Spirit”

  The extraordinaryIntroduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit by Alexandre Kojève, with contributions of Raymond Queneau, Allan Bloom, and James H. Nichols, occupies a singular place in the intellectual history of the twentieth century. It serves as an expansive engagement with Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit which combines rigorous philosophical exegesis…

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  January 1, 2025

  Philosophy

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• On Hegel: The Sway of the Negative

  On Hegel: The Sway of the Negative by Karin de Boer is a presentation of Hegel’s philosophical system, offering a transformative engagement with his legacy through the prism of tragedy, negativity, and dialectics. In this exhaustive study lies an analysis of Hegel’s Science of Logic, through which de Boer unpacks the latent tensions and contradictions…

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  January 1, 2025

  Philosophy

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• Walter Kaufmann: Discovering the Mind | Volume Two: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Buber

  In the second volume of his monumental trilogy, Discovering the Mind, Walter Kaufmann deepens his incisive exploration of human self-understanding by focusing on the psychological and philosophical contributions of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Martin Buber. This volume is not merely a continuation but an expansion of a quest that seeks to illuminate the development…

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  December 19, 2024

  Philosophy

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• Walter Kaufmann: Discovering the Mind | Volume One: Goethe, Kant, and Hegel

  Walter Kaufmann’s Discovering the Mind (Volume One: Goethe, Kant, and Hegel) is an ambitious exploration of intellectual history through the vivid psychologies, ideas, and personalities of three titanic figures who indelibly shaped the discourse of the human mind. With characteristic rigor, Kaufmann casts aside staid interpretations, offering instead a provocative and penetrating reevaluation of Goethe’s…

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  December 19, 2024

  Philosophy

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• From Shakespeare to Existentialism

  Walter A. Kaufmann’s From Shakespeare to Existentialism is a masterwork of intellectual exploration, charting a constellation of Western thought that spans literature, philosophy, and the crises of modernity. First published in 1959, this volume brings into sharp focus Kaufmann’s unique philosophical temperament—a confluence of rigorous analysis, historical consciousness, and Nietzschean skepticism. The book unfolds as…

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  December 19, 2024

  Philosophy

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