Tag: history
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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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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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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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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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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—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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Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France | 2 Volumes
In these two volumes, drawn together under the common title Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France, a rich panorama of philosophical exchange emerges, one that gently but decisively overturns many entrenched perspectives on the reception of German Idealism. From the outset, the books proclaim a sweeping project: they place before our eyes the overlooked…
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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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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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Welt und Zeit—Disaster, 18:19—11. Februar 2025
Disaster is a threshold concept that captures the rupture, the sudden and devastating break, that disrupts the continuity of collective life. It conjures visions of apocalypse, catastrophe, cataclysm, ruin, and end, all of which speak to the collapse of presumed orders and the shattering of expectations. While the word “disaster” can be applied to singular…
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The Women of David Lynch: A Collection of Essays
In The Women of David Lynch: A Collection of Essays, Scott Ryan presents a philosophically charged exploration of one of modern cinema’s most perplexing paradoxes—the figure of the woman as simultaneously victim, muse, and formidable force within the enigmatic cinematic universe of David Lynch. This assemblage of essays, contributed by an eclectic array of female…
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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,…
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A Short History of German Philosophy
A Short History of German Philosophy by Vittorio Hösle explores through the rich landscape of German philosophical thought, charting its evolution from the Middle Ages to contemporary times. With a masterful blend of clarity and depth, Hösle navigates through complex ideas, making them accessible to a broad audience without sacrificing intellectual rigor. The book opens…
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In the Wake of Thought: The Dialectics of Scientific Knowledge
In the Depth of the Concept Lies Truth’s Essence; Its True Expression Unfolds in the Scientific System, Where Negativity Becomes the Source of Life. Table of Contents Abstract This work, In the Wake of Thought: The Dialectics of Scientific Knowledge, analyses the relationship between philosophical inquiry and scientific understanding, as explored through the lens of…
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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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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…
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‘German Existentialism’ by Martin Heidegger
In this remarkable and deeply disquieting volume, published in 1965 by Philosophical Library and stretching across a mere sixty pages that nevertheless brim with historical significance, the reader is confronted with one of the most perplexing instances of philosophical genius entangled with political brutality. Titled simply German Existentialism, it purports at first glance to be…
Simon Gros 