Tag: Philosophy
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From Marx to Hegel and Back: Capitalism, Critique, and Utopia
From Marx to Hegel and Back: Capitalism, Critique, and Utopia offers an ambitious philosophical reassessment of the enduring relationship between two towering figures in modern thought—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx. In the area of both philosophical inquiry and socio-political critique, where Marxism continues to be reinterpreted and revitalized, the editors, Victoria Fareld and…
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The Cambridge Companion to Hegel
Few thinkers in the history of philosophy have elicited such passionate and polarized reactions as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, whose work continues to provoke both ardent admiration and fierce dismissal. Some critics see him as an inscrutable charlatan whose dense metaphysical speculations border on obscurantism, while others regard him as one of the most profound…
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‘G.W.F. Hegel’ by Dudley Knowles
Dudley Knowles’ G.W.F. Hegel presents a monumental survey of Hegel’s political philosophy, emphasizing his distinctive contributions to perennial debates on freedom, ethics, and social life. Hegel’s account of freedom is not merely personal but fundamentally social, where true freedom emerges through one’s involvement in the institutions of family, civil society, and the state. The essays…
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The Expansion of Autonomy: Hegel’s Pluralistic Philosophy of Action
Christopher Yeomans’ The Expansion of Autonomy: Hegel’s Pluralistic Philosophy of Action explores the tension within modern ethical thought surrounding the nature of autonomy—a problem rooted in the contrasting philosophical systems of Kant and Hegel. Yeomans aims to reveal the subtle complexity of Hegel’s critique of Kantian morality and the revolutionary ways in which Hegel addresses…
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Hegel and Modern Society
In Hegel and Modern Society, Charles Taylor offers an incisive examination of the philosophical underpinnings of Hegel’s thought, specifically focusing on its relevance to contemporary social and political contexts. Taylor’s work seeks to dismantle the prevailing post-World War II perception of Hegel as a proto-fascist apologist, instead presenting him as a thinker who endeavors to…
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French Hegel: From Surrealism to Postmodernism
In French Hegel: From Surrealism to Postmodernism, Bruce Baugh presents a detailed history of ideas that traces the impact of Hegel on French philosophy from the 1920s to the present day. This work provides a lucid narrative that illuminates Hegel’s influence across various intellectual movements and key thinkers in France throughout the twentieth century. Baugh…
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Hegel’s Ontology of Power: The Structure of Social Domination in Capitalism
Arash Abazari’s Hegel’s Ontology of Power is a deeply ambitious philosophical project that reorients the prevailing readings of Hegel, challenging entrenched liberal interpretations that have long dominated Hegelian scholarship. The heart of Abazari’s intervention is to unveil a critical dimension within Hegel’s Science of Logic, specifically within the “logic of essence.” This approach diverges markedly…
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Approaching Hegel’s Logic, Obliquely: Melville, Moliere, Beckett
Angelica Nuzzo’s Approaching Hegel’s Logic, Obliquely is an audacious philosophical endeavor that stakes its ground on re-reading Hegel’s Logic as a “logic of transformation” and a “logic of action.” This is not a conventional explication of Hegel’s famously opaque work, nor is it content with philosophical abstraction. Instead, Nuzzo seeks to vivify Hegel’s thought by…
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The Bloomsbury Companion to Hegel
In The Bloomsbury Companion to Hegel, editors Allegra de Laurentiis and Jeffrey Edwards orchestrate an ambitious and comprehensive examination of the philosophical system of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, featuring contributions from eighteen eminent scholars whose expertise spans a broad spectrum of philosophical inquiry. This collaborative effort aims to serve as an indispensable reference for both…
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Hegel’s Anthropology: Life, Psyche, and Second Nature
Allegra de Laurentiis’s Hegel’s Anthropology: Life, Psyche, and Second Nature offers an exhaustive and penetrating analysis of one of Hegel’s most overlooked yet philosophically potent texts, his Anthropology. Situated within the vast systematic architecture of Hegel’s Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, this treatise addresses the “soul” (Seele) as a transitional entity between nature and spirit,…
Simon Gros 