Tag: metaphysics
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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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I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
René Girard’s I See Satan Fall Like Lightning asks how the manifest similarity between the Gospel Passion and the world’s mythologies, long treated as an embarrassment to Christian claims of uniqueness, can be converted into the very ground on which that uniqueness becomes demonstrable. Composed late in Girard’s career and presented by its translator as…
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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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‘Civilization and Its Discontents’ by Sigmund Freud
Civilization and Its Discontents, translated by David McLintock, is of Sigmund Freud’s most well-known and troubling meditations on the precarious balance between the individual psyche and the communal demands of modern society. In this pivotal work, first published in 1930, Freud considers the vast historical struggle that has led human beings into forms of collective…
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Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same
Karl Löwith’s Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same is a monumental contribution to the scholarly understanding of Friedrich Nietzsche’s thought, offering a rigorous and critical exploration of one of Nietzsche’s most enigmatic and contested doctrines: the eternal recurrence. Löwith’s work, originally published in 1935 in the perilous intellectual and political climate of…
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The First Critique: Reflections on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
The First Critique: Reflections on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, edited by Terence Penelhum and J. J. MacIntosh and published in 1969 as a volume of the Wadsworth Studies in Philosophical Criticism under the general editorship of Alexander Sesonke, assembles eleven essays that interrogate the central doctrines of Kant’s first Critique from the standpoints of…
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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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Heidegger’s Poietic Writings: From Contributions to Philosophy to The Event
Heidegger’s poietic writings are approached here as a distinctive kind of philosophical production: manuscripts withheld from public view, composed in the late 1930s and early 1940s, whose internal ambition is to discover a manner of saying in which the “event” of being’s historical happening can come to articulation without being turned into an object. Vallega-Neu’s…
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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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Apocalypse of Truth: Heideggerian Meditations
Jean Vioulac’s Apocalypse of Truth: Heideggerian Meditations is a systematic attempt to determine what “truth” must mean when the historical configuration that made truth self-evident enters into collapse. The book’s central question concerns the inner connection between an epochal diagnosis—technology, market-totalization, mass equalization, the waning of communal and sacred horizons—and the fate of truth as…
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Heidegger and Kabbalah: Hidden Gnosis and the Path of Poiēsis
Elliot R. Wolfson’s Heidegger and Kabbalah: Hidden Gnosis and the Path of Poiēsis stages a sustained comparison between Heidegger’s later thinking of beyng as event and key kabbalistic articulations of the infinite, concealment, and linguistic disclosure. The book’s governing ambition is neither a general survey of “mysticism” nor an exercise in associative parallel-hunting, but an…
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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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‘Mass Psychology & Other Writings’ by Sigmund Freud
This Penguin Modern Classics volume of Freud’s writings on mass psychology, translated by J. A. Underwood and framed by an introduction from Jacqueline Rose, gathers Freud’s most sustained attempts to render collective life intelligible from within the conceptual resources of psychoanalysis. Its central problem-space concerns the permeability between individual mental life and social formation: how…
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation | Two Volumes
The World as Will and Representation (in its two-volume form) is constructed around a tightly constrained problem-space: how a finite knower can give an account of the world that remains faithful to the inescapable conditions of experience while still permitting a determinate claim about what the world is in itself. The work’s governing ambition is…
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Democracy Against the Populist Temptation
In a 2009 lecture Slavoj Žižek developed a loosely connected but internally consistent set of claims about democratic legitimacy, the affective mechanics of populism, and the changing styles of political authority under contemporary capitalism. Speaking in a polemical yet diagnostic register, he framed his argument as a warning against the temptation to treat “the people”…
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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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Whose Servant Is a Master?
Whose Servant Is a Master? stages a concentrated intervention into contemporary political philosophy by treating “mastery” less as an archaic residue than as a recurring functional necessity generated by modern emancipatory projects themselves. The lecture’s distinctive scholarly stake lies in its attempt to re-map authority after the Enlightenment by refusing the easy consolations of either…
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A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
Steven Nadler’s A Book Forged in Hell offers a rigorously documented reconstruction of how Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise came to be written and a deeply probing account of the extraordinary drama that surrounded one of the most notorious and transformative works in the history of Western thought. The book brings vividly to life the complex circumstances…
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Logics of Worlds
Logics of Worlds tries to determine how truths—grasped there in their ontological type—appear, persist, and acquire objective traction within determinate worlds. Badiou’s distinctive contribution is to force a systematic passage from ontology to a logic of appearing that is neither a psychology of experience nor a semantics of reference, but an objective, formally articulated doctrine…
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‘Early Greek Thinking: The Dawn of Western Philosophy’ by Martin Heidegger
Early Greek Thinking: The Dawn of Western Philosophy relocates the earliest Greek fragments into an ontological field in which language, presencing, and concealment form a single, problem-laden scene of truth. Its distinctive contribution lies in showing how Anaximander, Heraclitus, and Parmenides name an inaugural configuration of Being as presencing (Anwesen understood dynamically), and how that…
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Shadows of Being: Encounters with Heidegger in Political Theory and Historical Reflection
Shadows of Being: Encounters with Heidegger in Political Theory and Historical Reflection tests Heidegger’s claim to have restored philosophy to what is genuinely fundamental by submitting that claim to the tribunal of ethico-political judgment and historically situated reflection, rather than allowing it to rest on Heidegger’s own self-interpretation. Jeffrey Andrew Barash’s contribution lies in a…
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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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Thought Poems: A Translation of Heidegger’s Verse
Thought Poems: A Translation of Heidegger’s Verse stakes a very precise claim in Heidegger scholarship: it establishes volume 81 of the Gesamtausgabe—Gedachtes—as a central laboratory of Heidegger’s late thinking, by presenting for the first time in English the entire corpus of what Heidegger names “thought-poems,” together with the early poems, intimate letters, and scattered fragments…
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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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Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real
The book’s wager is that the most precise way to think the relation between Beckett’s late prose and Lacan’s late teaching passes through mathematics understood as a mode of writing. Its distinctive contribution is to displace familiar topoi of “Beckett and psychoanalysis” or “Beckett and modernism” by constructing a very closely linked three-term configuration in…
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The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
Capitalism, in Ellen Meiksins Wood’s account, acquires determinate form within history rather than it being a timeless inevitability. The distinctive stake of The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View is to replace narratives of smooth “commercial evolution” with a precise specification of the social property relations that generated uniquely capitalist imperatives—market dependence, competitive accumulation, systematic…
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Lorenzo Vinciguerra presents ‘Spinoza: The Prophet and the Sign’
Lorenzo Vinciguerra offers a systematic reading of Spinoza’s critique of prophecy, scriptural interpretation, and the regime of signs by placing these themes at the centre of Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise and relating them to the broader architecture of the Ethics. Beginning from Spinoza’s formal definition of prophecy as a kind of sure knowledge revealed by God…
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