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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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Contexts of Suffering: A Heideggerian Approach to Psychopathology
Contexts of Suffering: A Heideggerian Approach to Psychopathology presents a rigorous phenomenological and hermeneutic reorientation of psychiatric understanding that challenges the dominance of contemporary biopsychiatry while remaining clinically attuned and methodologically exacting. Its distinctive stake is twofold: to articulate how mental illness manifests as disruptions within the constitutive structures of human existence—mooded attunement, embodiment, spatiality,…
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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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Heidegger and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit
The distinctive contribution of Heidegger and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit is to relocate the will—willing, deferred willing, covert willing, and the possibility of non-willing—at the very center of Heidegger’s path of thought, and to do so by reconstructing the movement of that path from within Heidegger’s own texts. It shows that the…
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Heidegger’s Polemos: From Being to Politics
Heidegger’s Polemos: From Being to Politics undertakes a single, exceptionally focused wager: that the most coherent path through Heidegger’s ontology and into his politics runs by way of a reinterpreted polemos—not as mere “war,” but as Auseinandersetzung, a formative confrontation in which beings, worlds, and peoples are set out and apart, disclosed, and bound to…
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Appropriating Heidegger
The distinctive claim of Appropriating Heidegger is that disagreement about Heidegger’s importance and the sense of his project can itself be made methodologically fruitful once it is gathered, displayed, and argued as a field of presuppositions at work in reading. The volume’s editors stage precisely such a field: they solicit positions whose divergences do not…
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Heidegger’s Temporal Idealism
Heidegger’s Temporal Idealism advances a rigorous, intricately argued reconstruction of the temporal architecture at work in Being and Time, and wagers a precise thesis: time as ordinarily understood arises from, and is dependent upon, a more basic manifold—originary temporality—that is constitutive of Dasein’s being. Blattner’s distinctive contribution is to treat this wager as a systematic…
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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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The Question Concerning Techno-Capitalism: Žižek & Heidegger
This book contends, with unusual precision, that Žižek’s corpus becomes intelligible when read as a sustained, immanent confrontation with Heidegger’s finitude and its afterlife in the “question concerning technology,” and that the motor of Žižek’s oeuvre is a structurally unresolved tension between a historicist diagnosis of techno-capitalist ideology and a trans-historic theory of the revolutionary…
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A Heidegger Seminar on Hegel’s Differenzschrift
In 1958, Heidegger delivered the lecture “Hegel and the Greeks” at the University of Aix-en-Provence. At the invitation of the poet René Char, he later returned to Provence in 1966, 1968, and 1969 to conduct small, intensive seminars in the village of Le Thor with a circle of French philosophers that included Jean Beaufret and…
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Hegel: System of Ethical Life and First Philosophy of Spirit
Hegel’s System of Ethical Life (1802/3) and First Philosophy of Spirit (Part III of the System of Speculative Philosophy 1803/04) is the earliest surviving work in which spirit is prised from natural embeddedness and made to show itself as a self-moving ethical whole; its distinctive stake is to exhibit, in a rigorously economical manuscript logic,…
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Hegel and Greek Thought
Hegel and Greek Thought frames a precise scholarly stake: it reconstructs, with methodical restraint and conceptual reach, how Hegel’s historical-philosophical imagination seizes upon the Greek world to clarify its own norms of reason, freedom, art, religion, and political life, and how this appropriation in turn reorganizes Hegel’s judgment of modern civilization. Its distinctive contribution lies…
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Hegel: The Restlessness Of The Negative
Nancy’s slender book sets itself a very large philosophical task: to exhibit a Hegel whose system breathes as restlessness rather than closure, whose “absolute” is not a perched result but the immanent motion of self-relation, whose politics opens not onto an apparatus of sovereignty but onto the exposed spacing in which being-in-common occurs. Its distinctive…
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Hegel in a Wired Brain
In Hegel in a Wired Brain, Slavoj Žižek approaches G.W.F. Hegel not as a relic preserved behind the glass of intellectual history rather than as a thinker whose conceptual architecture continues to shape the space in which we now attempt to understand our own technological transformation. Published to mark the 250th anniversary of Hegel’s birth,…
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Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique
Scott’s Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique stakes a precise claim: the only adequate way to “use” Hegel for literary study is to let Hegel’s own writing transform what reading is—so that interpretation must be practiced as speculative experience rather than applied as a detachable method. Across a preface of theses, an introduction that situates the…
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G.W.F. Hegel on Art, Religion, Philosophy: Introductory Lectures to the Realm of Absolute Spirit
Hegel’s On Art, Religion, Philosophy: Introductory Lectures to the Realm of Absolute Spirit is a deliberately constructed threshold-text: it merges a mature system into three gateways where the highest activities of spirit reveal their common telos while retaining their distinct modes. J. Glenn Gray’s edition frames these gateways as a single pedagogical arc that makes…
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The Philosophy of Hegel
Hinging its scholarly wager on modernity as a problem that demands both conceptual reconstruction and historical self-comprehension, Allen Speight’s The Philosophy of Hegel advances a precise contribution: it restores the methodological nerve of Hegel’s project by threading together the diagnostic force of the early Jena writings, the argumentatively staged itinerary of the Phenomenology of Spirit,…
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Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, Volume II: The Lectures of 1830–1831
Hodgson’s edition and Brown’s translation of Hegel’s 1830–1831 Lectures on the Philosophy of World History stake a precise claim: they deliver Hegel’s last, most worked-through public articulation of how world history can be grasped as rational—neither as an imposed schema nor as a string of contingencies—by reconstructing the movement whereby spirit comes to know itself…
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Hegel’s Rabble: An Investigation into Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
Frank Ruda’s Hegel’s Rabble: An Investigation into Hegel’s Philosophy of Right proposes that the seemingly marginal figure of “the rabble” is not an incidental social pathology but the pressure point at which Hegel’s entire political architecture—civil society, the state, and the ethical life that binds them—reveals its internal limit. The book’s distinctive contribution lies in…
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Cogito and the Unconscious
The volume advances a precise wager: that the most stringent account of the unconscious in the wake of Freud emerges when the Cartesian cogito is treated neither as a worn emblem of transparent self-presence nor as a quaint philosophical fossil, but as a shibboleth that divides conceptual labor and tests the rigor of method. Its…
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The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing
The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing advances a precise scholarly wager and distinctive intervention. It argues that the figure most often treated as the mystical excrescence of Hegel’s edifice—absolute knowing—is the structurally exacting nerve of his rational project; and it proposes that this nerve becomes legible only when Hegel is read to the letter,…
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G. K. Chesterton’ Orthodoxy
Chesterton’ Orthodoxy presents itself as an intellectual experiment whose distinctive contribution lies in demonstrating, by autobiographical method and argumentative pressure, that classical Christian doctrine functions as a methodological key for holding together experiences that otherwise disintegrate into skepticism, sentimentality, or fanaticism. Its scholarly stake is to exhibit how a determinate creed—summarized by the Apostles’ Creed—does…
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Reason in Religion: The Foundations of Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion
Walter Jaeschke’s Reason in Religion: The Foundations of Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion stakes a precise claim: it reconstructs, with philological rigor and systematic intent, how Hegel regrounds the very possibility of a philosophy of religion by reopening the question that Kant appeared to close—whether speculative reason can know God—and by tracking how that reopening reshapes…
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The Problem of Religion, Christianity, and the Role of Protestantism in the Philosophy of the Early Hegel (1795–1806)
Hinging its argument on the early Hegel’s struggle to convert religious inheritance into a generative logic of system, Dr. Imre Bártfai’s study isolates religion—Christianity in general and Protestantism in particular—as a constructive problem-space through which moral aspiration, civic motivation, and speculative method are successively refashioned from Tübingen through Bern and Frankfurt into Jena. The work’s…
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The Genesis of Heidegger’s Being and Time
Theodore Kisiel’s The Genesis of Heidegger’s Being and Time is less a commentary than a topographical and documentary reconstruction of the pathway whose precipices and detours led to Sein und Zeit. A work written under the constraint that a philosophy which avowedly privileges the temporally unfolding situation of questioning cannot be explained by a static…
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Hegel’s Faith and Knowledge
Hegel’s Faith and Knowledge is one of the deepest analyses of the fraught yet inseparable relationship between religious faith and philosophical cognition in modernity, showing his early quest to harmonize the spiritual yearning of humanity with the rigorous demands of Enlightenment reason. Published in 1802 within the Critical Journal that he co-edited with Schelling, it…
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The Methods of Metaphilosophy: Kant, Maimon, and Schelling on How to Philosophize About Philosophy
The Methods of Metaphilosophy advances a precise and ambitious scholarly stake: to show that Kant, Maimon, and Schelling each devise a method for philosophizing about philosophy that treats metaphilosophy as first philosophy and, crucially, as a discipline with its own experimentally inflected procedure. Schmid’s distinctive contribution lies in the reconstruction of a shared research programme—metaphilosophy-first—whose…
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The Role of Contradictions in Spinoza’s Philosophy: The God-Intoxicated Heretic
Yuval Jobani’s The Role of Contradictions in Spinoza’s Philosophy: The God-Intoxicated Heretic reframes the canonical image of Spinoza’s seamless Euclidean rationalism by arguing, with relentless textual attention, that contradiction is neither an embarrassment to be harmonized away nor an exoteric smokescreen, but a constitutive motor of Spinoza’s project—governing the political architecture of revised religion in…
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Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution
Rebecca Comay’s Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution stakes a precise claim: that the philosophical architecture of German Idealism, and Hegel’s in particular, bears the imprint of a revolution experienced at once intimately and vicariously, as an event whose terror and promise were registered in Germany through displacement, delay, and symptomatic re-enactment. Its distinctive…
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Marxian Totality: Inverting Hegel to Expound Worldly Matters
The declared ambition of Marxian Totality: Inverting Hegel to Expound Worldly Matters is methodological before it is doctrinal. Its opening gesture situates the project in a landscape where Marx’s intellectual preeminence sits uneasily alongside theoretical disarray on the Left; from this discrepancy Boveiri extracts a single wager: that clarity about totality—what it is, how it…
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‘Plato’s Sophist’ by Martin Heidegger
Plato’s Sophist by Martin Heidegger, reconstructed from his seminal 1924–25 lecture course at the University of Marburg, is both an extraordinary exposition of Greek philosophy and a key elaboration of Heidegger’s own ontological concerns, bridging the ancient and the modern in a transformative philosophical dialogue. This work is a rigorous philosophical undertaking, threading Plato’s dialogue…
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‘Being Towards Death’: Heidegger and the Orthodox Theology of the East
“Being Towards Death”: Heidegger and the Orthodox Theology of the East embodies a far-reaching analysis of Christian theology through the existential prism of Martin Heidegger’s thought, enshrined above all in his notion of “being towards death,” while simultaneously engaging the mystical and apophatic spirit of Eastern Orthodoxy. It undertakes the formidable task of merging together…
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Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice: Hölderlin-Heidegger-Celan
In Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice: Hölderlin–Heidegger–Celan, the reader is drawn into an unusually deep reflection that insists on bringing poetry and philosophy face to face with the most pressing questions of ethics, law, and the hidden exigencies of what it means to measure the immeasurable. The volume ventures beyond any conventional moral or…
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Complicated Presence: Heidegger and the Postmetaphysical Unity of Being
Backman’s Complicated Presence advances a precise and audacious claim: the thread that binds Heidegger’s itinerary from his earliest lecture courses through the texts of the Kehre and the late meditations is a single, rigorously reworked question—how unity holds for being once the metaphysical will to a final ground, system, or identity has exhausted itself. The…
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The Phenomenology of Spirit
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit is a book that resists every straightforward description while obliging the reader to submit to its singular logic of unfolding, a logic that moves neither by pure exposition nor by narrative in the ordinary sense, but by a methodical, internally impelled transition through shapes of consciousness that are at once lived…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline (1817)
DOWNLOAD: (.pdf, draft) GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCES IN OUTLINE(1817) Preface The need to place a guiding thread into the hands of my listeners for my philosophical lectures is the immediate reason that I let this overview of the entire scope of philosophy appear earlier than I had otherwise intended. The nature…
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‘Less than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism’ by Slavoj Žižek
Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism presents itself less as a commentary redundantly installed upon the edifice of German Idealism than as the staging ground for an experiment in the conditions of thinking when the ground itself is withdrawn. The book’s wager holds that the only way to register the philosophical…
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Freedom and Reflection: Hegel and the Logic of Agency
Christopher Yeomans’ Freedom and Reflection: Hegel and the Logic of Agency can be read as a sustained attempt to retrieve the problem of free will for Hegel by relocating it within the conceptual architecture of the Science of Logic. The guiding wager is that Hegel’s distinctive treatment of freedom—as an achievement of self-determination that simultaneously…
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Hegel, Literature and the Problem of Agency
Allen Speight’s Hegel, Literature and the Problem of Agency can be approached as a rigorous attempt to recover the inner architecture of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit by taking at face value what many readers have treated as merely ornamental: Hegel’s insistent, even obstinate, recourse to literature at decisive junctures of the argument. The wager is…
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