Tag: dialectic
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Collected Works, Volume 7: Jena System Drafts II
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Collected Works, Volume 7: Jena System Drafts II presents one of the most important surviving documents from the formative period immediately preceding the Phenomenology of Spirit: Hegel’s extensive fair-copy draft of a philosophical system composed between the summer of 1804 and the beginning of 1805. Unlike the fragmentary 1803/04 materials of…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Collected Works, Volume 6: Jena System Drafts I
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Collected Works, Volume 6: Jena System Drafts I presents the surviving fragments of Hegel’s first fully elaborated attempt to construct a complete system of speculative philosophy. Written and extensively revised for his teaching at the University of Jena in 1803–1804, these manuscripts occupy a decisive position between the experimental writings of…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Collected Works, Volume 5: Writings and Drafts, 1799–1808
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Collected Works, Volume 5: Writings and Drafts (1799–1808) brings together an unusually extensive and heterogeneous body of material from one of the most consequential periods in Hegel’s intellectual development. Extending from his final Frankfurt years through the decisive Jena period and into his work as a newspaper editor in Bamberg, the…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Collected Works, Volume 4: Jena Critical Writings
Collected Works, Volume 4: Jena Critical Writings marks a decisive transition in the intellectual development of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. With these texts, the largely private theological, historical, political, and philosophical investigations preserved in the first three volumes give way to Hegel’s emergence as a public philosopher intervening directly in the central controversies of post-Kantian…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Collected Works, Volume 3: Early Excerpts, 1785–1800
Collected Works, Volume 3: Early Excerpts (1785–1800) opens a distinctive window onto the intellectual formation of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel by presenting not primarily finished compositions, but the excerpts, reading notes, definitions, and documentary materials through which he absorbed and organized the intellectual world of his youth. Based on Volume 3 of the authoritative Gesammelte…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Collected Works, Volume 2: Early Writings II
Collected Works, Volume 2: Early Writings II continues the documentary reconstruction of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s intellectual formation, concentrating primarily on the decisive Frankfurt period from 1797 to 1800. Based on the second volume of the authoritative Gesammelte Werke critical edition, prepared by Friedhelm Nicolin, Ingo Rill, and Peter Kriegel and edited by Walter Jaeschke,…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Collected Works, Volume 1: Early Writings I
Collected Works, Volume 1: Early Writings I presents the formative writings of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, documenting the intellectual development of one of the central figures of modern philosophy before the emergence of his mature philosophical system. Based on the first volume of the authoritative Gesammelte Werke critical edition, originally edited by Friedhelm Nicolin and…
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Hegel’s Hellenic Ideal
J. Glenn Gray’s study asks a single, tightly delimited question: which values did Hegel take to be characteristic of Greek culture, and how did holding those values shape his verdict on modern civilization? Its governing ambition is correspondingly restrained — to separate Hegel’s historical and cultural criticism from the metaphysical apparatus in which that criticism…
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Foundations of Hegel’s Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom
Frederick Neuhouser’s Foundations of Hegel’s Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom asks what, on Hegel’s own view, makes a social order rational, and it answers by reconstructing the normative concept that organizes Hegel’s account of modern institutions: practical freedom. Its governing ambition is deliberately circumscribed. Neuhouser seeks neither the ultimate metaphysical derivation of social norms from Hegel’s…
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Freedom and Reflection: Hegel and the Logic of Agency
Christopher Yeomans’s Freedom and Reflection: Hegel and the Logic of Agency asks how self-determination can be compatible with, and articulated by, external determination, and where in Hegel a determinate account of that compatibility is to be found. Its governing ambition is to show that the account lies in the Science of Logic — in the…
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Karl Marx’s Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy Of Right
Karl Marx’s Critique of Hegel’s ‘Philosophy of Right’ asks what remains of Hegel’s constitutional doctrine once its speculative grammar has been separated from its descriptive content. Composed as a running commentary on the paragraphs treating the internal constitution of the state, and abandoned unfinished, the work pursues a single governing ambition: to establish that the…
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Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution
Rebecca Comay’s Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution asks how historical lateness can be thought without presupposing the uniform, continuous time frame that would make lateness measurable in the first place. Its governing ambition is to treat trauma as a modal, temporal, and historical category, taking the discordance Marx named the German misery as…
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
Hegel’s Philosophy of Right poses a single exacting question: in what sense, and through what stages, does right exist as the reality of freedom, so that the will gives itself an objective world and finds itself at home there? Its ambition is to present right speculatively, exhibiting the concept of the free will as it…
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Harris’s ‘Hegel’s Ladder: A Commentary on Phenomenology of Spirit’
Harris’s Hegel’s Ladder presents itself less as an attempt to accompany Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit at the level of its own claim to be a science of experience. Its central question is whether the Phenomenology can be read as a continuous and intelligible chain of argument rather than as a brilliant but discontinuous assemblage of…
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‘Hegel: Three Studies’ by Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno’s Hegel: Three Studies arrives in English as a carefully structured intervention into the legacy of German Idealism and into the present of critical theory. Appearing in the MIT Press translation by Shierry Weber Nicholsen, with an introduction by Nicholsen and Jeremy J. Shapiro, the volume collects three essays—“Aspects of Hegel’s Philosophy,” “The…
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Heidegger’s Being and Time: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide
William Large’s Heidegger’s Being and Time: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide poses a single sustained question: through what disciplined ordering of beginnings can a reader unfamiliar with Heidegger’s idiom enter Being and Time without either capitulating to its surface difficulty or domesticating its ontological aims into a manageable epistemology? The book’s governing ambition is to construct…
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‘Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit ’ by Martin Heidegger
The work under consideration is a sustained interpretive engagement with the opening movement of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, delivered as a winter lecture course at Freiburg in 1930–1931 and posthumously edited as the thirty-second volume of the Gesamtausgabe from Heidegger’s own manuscript together with several student transcripts. Its central question is whether the philosophy that…
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The Secret of Hegel: Being the Hegelian System in Origin, Principle, Form and Matter
The Secret of Hegel by James Hutchison Stirling asks what would be required for English thought to receive Hegel as Hegel intended to be received: as the articulated self-genesis of conceptual life rather than as a vocabulary of strange formulae or a metaphysical scandal. Its governing ambition is to mediate the speculative logic of Hegel…
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Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?: The Intellectual World War, Marxism vs. the Imperial Theory Industry
Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? is organized around a guiding question that is at once empirical and methodological: by what material circuits of funding, institutional mediation, and state–class strategy did a certain “Western Marxism” become globally authoritative, and what does that genealogy disclose about its practical function within twentieth- and twenty-first-century class struggle?…
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Young Schopenhauer: The Origin of the Metaphysics of Will and its Aporias
Young Schopenhauer: The Origin of the Metaphysics of Will and its Aporias undertakes a generic reconstruction of how Schopenhauer’s central metaphysical thesis—will as the inner essence of the world—emerges from earlier, heterogeneous strata of thought and experience, and how this emergence deposits lasting aporias into the mature system. Its governing ambition is to follow the…
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Under the Spell of Freedom: Theory of Religion after Hegel and Nietzsche
Under the Spell of Freedom: Theory of Religion after Hegel and Nietzsche pursues a single, steadily ramifying question: how the history of religion and the history of political freedom condition one another once the confidence in a unitary, internally necessary story of Western modernity has become questionable. Hans Joas treats Hegel’s synthesis of Christianity and…
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Hegel Beyond Liberalism: The Dialectic of Political and Economic Democracy
Hegel Beyond Liberalism: The Dialectic of Political and Economic Democracy constructs a densely interlocked conceptual space around a single question: what kind of social order is required if the modern concept of freedom is to become fully actual, rather than remaining an internally divided ideal. The book’s governing ambition is to read Hegel’s Philosophy of…
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The Master is Undead
Mladen Dolar’s lecture, The Master is Undead, stakes a precise claim about modern authority: psychoanalysis belongs to political modernity because it was born at the moment when traditional sovereignty lost the capacity to guarantee itself, and when “masters” therefore reappear in counterfeit forms that draw their efficacy from the very rationalities that promised to supersede…
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The World Hysterical Individual
Andrew Cole’s lecture pursues a sharply delimited scholarly stake: it re-reads Hegel’s concept of the world-historical individual at the precise point where its apparent grandeur becomes politically legible as a theory of autocratic formation, and where its theoretical afterlives (in Marxist, Lukácsian, and Frankfurt School idioms) reveal a recurrent strategy of deflection—citing the concept in…
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Hegel and the Representative Constitution
Hegel and the Representative Constitution asks how to read Hegel’s mature political philosophy: as a historically situated, source-responsive intervention into the post-Napoleonic “constitutional question,” whose argumentative core concerns the conditions under which constitutional monarchy, popular participation, and the unity of state powers can be coherently articulated. Elias Buchetmann reconstructs, with unusual clarity, the institutional content…
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Hegel’s Philosophy of World History
Hegel’s Philosophy of World History develops an idea that remains singular in the tradition: it proposes that world history is intelligible as a self-unfolding rational whole whose intelligibility is neither an external schema imposed upon events nor an empirical generalization from them, but the inner movement by which freedom becomes actual in institutions, consciousness, and…
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‘Introduction to the Philosophy of History’ by Georg W. F. Hegel
Hegel’s Introduction to the Philosophy of History makes a precise claim: world history, approached philosophically, permits an account in which the intelligibility of the whole can be rendered as a determinate logic of freedom without dissolving the empirical thickness of events into mere exempla. In this edition’s careful construction—framed by a translator’s contextual prolegomenon, a…
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Hegel on Abstraction
Simon Gros’s unfinished book Hegel on Abstraction stakes out a precise scholarly intervention by treating “abstraction” neither as a mere slogan for “thin universals” nor as a detachable keyword whose meaning can be stabilized by dictionary definition, but as a repeatedly refunctionalized operator whose sense shifts with Hegel’s changing tasks: logical determination, methodological beginning, social-moral…
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The Idea of the Good in Kant and Hegel
The Idea of the Good in Kant and Hegel repositions “the good” as a systematic load-bearing concept in classical German philosophy, arguing—through a deliberately cross-disciplinary set of studies—that the good functions as a structural principle spanning logic, ontology, practical reason, and social reality, and that its persistent entanglement with “evil” belongs to its very intelligibility…
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Schelling’s Late Philosophy in Confrontation with Hegel
Peter Dews’ Schelling’s Late Philosophy in Confrontation with Hegel undertakes a rare kind of reconstruction: it treats Schelling’s late, notoriously recalcitrant system as a philosophically accountable project whose guiding distinctions, inferential pivots, and historical narratives can be made explicit without being flattened into mere intellectual biography or reduced to a set of anti-Hegelian gestures. The…
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Between Kant & Hegel: Texts in the Development of Post-Kantian Idealism
Between Kant & Hegel: Texts in the Development of Post-Kantian Idealism stakes its claim, with a kind of quiet but decisive ambition, on two linked fronts: it offers, first, a rigorously delimited documentary core of seminal writings from the decades between the Critique of Pure Reason and the Phenomenology of Spirit, and second, a pair…
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‘Parmenides ’ by Martin Heidegger
Parmenides, the lecture course Martin Heidegger delivered at the University of Freiburg in 1942–1943, stages a decisive and at times unsettling confrontation with the inception of Western thinking. Far from offering a merely historical commentary on a pre-Socratic text, Heidegger treats Parmenides’ so-called didactic poem as a privileged site where the primordial experience of truth…
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Thinking in the Light of Time: Heidegger’s Encounter with Hegel
Karin de Boer’s Thinking in the Light of Time: Heidegger’s Encounter with Hegel proposes a tightly structured and quietly ambitious thesis: that the inner unity of Heidegger’s work, early and late, can be made visible if one takes temporality as the guiding thread, and that this same thread allows a renewed, more exact account of…
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Not Saved: Essays After Heidegger
In order to situate Heidegger’s thought in the history of ideas and problems, Peter Sloterdijk approaches Heidegger’s work with questions such as: If Western philosophy emerged from the spirit of the polis, what are we to make of the philosophical suitability of a man who never made a secret of his stubborn attachment to rural…
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Foams: Spheres Volume III: Plural Spherology
The final volume in Peter Sloterdijk’s celebrated Spheres trilogy, on the phenomenology of community and its spatial peripheries. The Spheres trilogy ultimately presents a theology without a God—a spatial theology that requires no God, whose death therefore need not be of concern. As with the two preceding volumes, Foams can be read on its own or in relation to the rest…
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Heidegger’s Black Notebooks and the Future of Theology
The volume’s explicit wager is that any future, intellectually honest conversation between Christian theology and Martin Heidegger must pass through the Black Notebooks—not around them—and that this passage will reconfigure both the archive of Heidegger’s texts and the very self-understanding of theology. Its distinctive contribution lies in staging, within a single book, a sustained diagnostic…
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Hegel and the Problem of the History of Philosophy: The Logical Structure of Exemplarity
Hegel and the Problem of the History of Philosophy: The Logical Structure of Exemplarity stakes a precise claim at the juncture of systematic logic and historiography. Raysmith proposes that Hegel’s wager—that philosophy has a history and yet aims at the one truth—can be rendered intelligible only if one reconstructs the Idea as a concrete, developmental…
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The Abyss of Freedom by Slavoj Žižek & Ages of the World (1813) by F.W.J. von Schelling
The volume brings together a philosophically exacting, mutually intensifying pairing: Slavoj Žižek’s The Abyss of Freedom and F. W. J. von Schelling’s second draft (1813) of The Ages of the World in Judith Norman’s translation. Its distinctive contribution is in the way it treats Schelling’s speculative cosmology and theology as the most rigorous site for…
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Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of Spirit
In Robert R. Williams’ translation of Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of Spirit (1827-8), the reader is introduced to one of the lesser-known but philosophically pivotal areas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s thought—his exploration of subjective spirit. These lectures, recently discovered and first published in 1994, form an integral addition to the Hegelian corpus, illuminating…
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Hegel and the Other: A Study of the Phenomenology of Spirit
Philip J. Kain offers one of the most approachable guides to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. Written with clarity and an economy of technical terminology, the book preserves the intricacy of Hegel’s argument while opening it to readers who might otherwise find the terrain forbidding. Kain foregrounds the Phenomenology’s sustained conversation with Kant across far more…
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Hegel on Philosophy in History
This festschrift for Robert Pippin brings together leading figures—John McDowell, Slavoj Žižek, Jonathan Lear, Axel Honneth, and others—to probe Hegel’s theses about the intrinsically historical character of philosophy. The essays range across the alleged “end of art” and its bearing on modern aesthetic self-understanding; the conception of human history—and, within it, the history of philosophy—as…
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The Heterodox Hegel
The Heterodox Hegel advances a precise and ambitious scholarly claim: that Hegel’s system is internally governed by a speculative theology whose center is a narratively articulated Holy Trinity, and that the coherence of this speculative center comes into view only when one tracks, with philological patience, Hegel’s selective allegiance to and transformation of distinct Christian…
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Inwardness and Existence: Subjectivity in/and Hegel, Heidegger, Marx, and Freud
The scholarly stake of Inwardness and Existence is exacting and unambiguous: to reconstruct a rigorous concept of subjectivity adequate to modern experience by staging a principled dialectical integration of four usually antagonistic traditions—Hegelian phenomenology, existential analysis, historical materialism, and psychoanalysis—under a single methodological demand that reading must itself become an experiment in transformation. Walter A.…
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The Spinoza-Hegel Paradox: A Study of the Choice Between Traditional Idealism and Systematic Pluralism
The Spinoza-Hegel Paradox advances a precise and provocative scholarly stake: to diagnose, with a rare mixture of historical sobriety and systematic nerve, how two thinkers who share an extensive platform of premises—commitments about abstraction, concreteness, system, truth, infinity, and the very grammar of adequacy—can nevertheless issue fundamentally opposed metaphysical settlements, and to convert that diagnosis…
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Freiheit: Stuttgarter Hegel-Kongress 2011
The volume’s distinctive scholarly stake is to specify freedom as a determinate field of conceptual tensions rather than as a settled datum, and to test Hegel’s resources for clarifying those tensions in contemporary registers—nature and second nature, art and imagination, determinism and time, autonomy and law, civil society and market, right and trust, emancipation and…
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Hegel and Legal Theory
Hegel and Legal Theory announces its scholarly stake with rare clarity: it gathers a set of tightly argued interventions—composed around a law-faculty conference frame and reworked into essays—that take Hegel’s Philosophy of Right as a systematic resource for re-thinking the juridical in its full relational breadth, from abstract right and personhood through morality and ethical…
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‘Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning)’ by Martin Heidegger
English translation of Beiträge zur Philosophie GA 65. Heidegger’s second most important work, this book was written during the 1930s but did not become available to the public until 1989. This volume’s distinctive scholarly stake lies in showing how a thinking “from” enowning (Heidegger’s Ereignis) must be enacted rather than reported, and how that enactment…
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‘Martin Heidegger at Eighty’ by Hannah Arendt
Martin Heidegger’s eightieth birthday was also the fiftieth anniversary of his public life, which he began not as an author—though he had already published a book on Duns Scotus—but as a university teacher. In barely three or four years since that first solid and interesting but still rather conventional study, he had become so different…
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The Role of Mood in Heidegger’s Ontology
The Role of Mood in Heidegger’s Ontology makes a precise and ambitious scholarly wager: if one follows Heidegger’s phenomenological-ontological method to its roots, then mood—formally thematized as Befindlichkeit (situatedness)—must be read as a constitutive condition of how human existence (Dasein) is first opened up to itself and its world. Bruce W. Ballard’s distinctive contribution is…
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After Heidegger?
After Heidegger? stakes its claim with uncommon precision: it assembles a deliberately heterogeneous forum of accomplished interlocutors to test whether Heidegger’s thought still provides living questions that can be taken up as one’s own in a philosophically responsible way under conditions shaped by new disclosures—above all the Black Notebooks—and by contemporary exigencies that he neither…
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