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Žižek and Communist Strategy: On the Disavowed Foundations of Global Capitalism
Žižek’s communism: revolutionary terror or Utopian jouissance? Good theory; bad politics: this is how Žižek’s works have been described. Now Chris McMillan argues that Žižek’s reading of global capitalism could reinvent political subversion. He highlights the political consequences of Žižek’s fundamental concepts, such as the Lacanian Real, universality and the communist hypothesis. He argues that […]
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Philosophische Einstiege)
This book is a short and basic introduction into Hegel’s philosophy in German. The main theses Hegel has defended and the central conceptions he has developed in his philosophical system are explicated. Furthermore, aspects of Hegel’s philosophy which are relevant in contemporary philosophical debates are highlighted. Finally, aspects of Hegel’s philosophy important in current social […]
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, with Marx’s Commentary: a Handbook for Students
In order to gain a proper perspective of Hegel’s place in the history of philosophy, it might be useful to focus on one key concept which has evolved significantly in meaning, from the time of Aristotle to Hegel. Speaking of the philosophical concept of the “category”: in Aristotle’s system, there were ten categories (or “predicaments”) […]
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Hegel’s Theory of Intelligibility
Hegel’s Theory of Intelligibility picks up on recent revisionist readings of Hegel to offer a productive new interpretation of his notoriously difficult work, the Science of Logic. Rocío Zambrana transforms the revisionist tradition by distilling the theory of normativity that Hegel elaborates in the Science of Logic within the context of his signature treatment of negativity, unveiling how both […]
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Foundations of Hegel’s Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom
The author’s purpose is to understand the philosophical foundations of Hegel’s social theory by articulating the normative standards at work in his claim that the three central social institutions of the modern era–the nuclear family, civil society, and the constitutional state–are rational or good. Its central question is: what, for Hegel, makes a rational social […]
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Hegel on the Modern Arts
Debates over the ‘end of art’ have tended to obscure Hegel’s work on the arts themselves. Benjamin Rutter opens this study with a defence of art’s indispensability to Hegel’s conception of modernity; he then seeks to reorient discussion toward the distinctive values of painting, poetry, and the novel. Working carefully through Hegel’s four lecture series […]
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Hegel on the Soul: A Speculative Anthropology
In the Hegelian system of philosophical sciences, the Anthropology directly follows the Philosophy of Nature and forms the first of the three sciences of Subjective Spirit: Anthropology, Phenomenology, and Psychology. The section on Subjective Spirit is then followed by sections on Objective Spirit and Absolute Spirit. The three sections together comprise the Philosophy of Spirit […]
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Hegel’s Century: Alienation and Recognition in a Time of Revolution
The remarkable lectures that Hegel gave in Berlin in the 1820s generated an exciting intellectual atmosphere which lasted for decades. From the 1830s, many students flocked to Berlin to study with people who had studied with Hegel, and both his original students, such as Feuerbach and Bauer, and later arrivals including Kierkegaard, Engels, Bakunin, and […]
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G. W. F. Hegel: The Berlin Phenomenology
These are selected parts of the three volume edition of Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit edited by M. J. Petry published here as a separate work. The Berlin Phenomenology should be a reliable basic text and an accurate translation which has several important advantages. The introduction and notes prepared for the present edition should prove […]
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit
The Philosophy of Subjective Spirit is the first section of the third part of Hegel’s Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences. First published in 1817, Hegel published two additional editions of the Encyclopedia in his lifetime, one in 1827 and the third in 1830, just a year before his untimely death. That devoted his efforts to […]
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Hegel on Tragedy and Comedy: New Essays
No philosopher has treated the subject of tragedy and comedy in as original and searching a manner as G. W. F. Hegel. His concern with these genres runs throughout both his early and late works and extends from aesthetic issues to questions in the history of society and religion. Hegel on Tragedy and Comedy is the […]
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Hegel’s Aesthetics: The Art of Idealism
Hegel is known as “the father of art history,” yet recent scholarship has overlooked his contributions. This is the first comprehensive interpretation of Hegel’s philosophy of art in English in thirty years. In a new analysis of Hegel’s notorious “end of art” thesis, Hegel’s Aesthetics shows the indispensability of Hegel’s aesthetics for understanding his philosophical idealism and […]
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Hegel’s Antiquity
Hegel’s Antiquity aims to summarize, contextualize, and criticize Hegel’s understanding and treatment of major aspects of the classical world, approaching each of the major areas of his historical thinking in turn: politics, art, religion, philosophy, and history itself. The discussion excerpts relevant details from a range of Hegel’s works, with an eye both to the ancient […]
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Dai fratelli Spaventa a Gramsci. Per una storia politico-sociale della fortuna di Hegel in Italia
In his studies Domenico Losurdo develops an interpretation of the realistic Hegel by Bertrando and Silvio Spaventa, on the basis of Gramsci’s traces, by means of an analysis of the topics of freedom and the universality of the well-being. DOWNLOAD: (.pdf & .epub)
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Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns
Available in English for the first time, Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns revives discussion of the major political and philosophical tenets underlying contemporary liberalism through a revolutionary interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel’s thought. Domenico Losurdo, one of the world’s leading Hegelians, reveals that the philosopher was fully engaged with the political controversies of his time. […]
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Hegel: The Restlessness of the Negative
At once an introduction to Hegel and a radically new vision of his thought, this remarkable work penetrates the entirety of the Hegelian field with brevity and precision, while compromising neither rigor nor depth. One of the most original interpreters of Hegel, Jean-Luc Nancy offers a portrait as startlingly unconventional as it is persuasive, and […]
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The Owl at Dawn: A Sequel to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
The Owl at Dawn is a continuation of the narrative of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. Where Hegel’s narrative ends with the apotheosis of “absolute knowing,” Cutrofello begins with the collapse of this very standpoint. He then develops a continuation of the dialectical movements that lead from the rift between the certainty and truth of absolute […]
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Creolizing Hegel
The 19th century German thinker G.W.F. Hegel is a towering figure in the canon of European philosophy. Indeed, most of the significant figures of European Philosophy after Hegel explicitly address his thought in their own work. Outside of the familiar territory of the Western canon, however, Hegel has also loomed large, most often as a […]
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‘In Defense of Hegel’s Madness’ by Slavoj Žižek
The article is a confrontation with Robert Brandom’s reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, his attempt to systematically “renormalize” Hegel, i.e., to reduce his extravagant formulations to the criteria of common sense. The article analyses a number of Brandom’s “domestications” of Hegel’s speculative concepts: self-relating, determinate negation, mediation, In-itself, action, knowledge, Spirit, reconciliation, history. On […]
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The Dark Side of Thought. The Body, the Unconscious and Madness in Hegel’s Philosophy
Is there a dark side to Hegelian philosophy? And if there is one, what is it exactly? This contribution aims to investigate those elements of Hegel’s speculative contributions that cannot be traced back to the clarity of a narrow rationality, but that refer to another principle of reason, which includes the role of corporeity and […]
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Hegel’s Theory of Absolute Spirit as Aesthetic Theory
Hegel’s philosophy of art is to the present day one of the most influential and attractive parts of his philosophy. In my contribution I argue for the thesis that art is not alone – together with religion and philosophy – an important figure of the absolute spirit. Much more than that, art as a complex […]
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s Leben
Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz (April 23, 1805 – July 14, 1879) was a German philosopher and pedagogue. Born in Magdeburg, he read philosophy at Berlin, Halle and Königsberg, devoting himself mainly to the doctrines of Hegel and Schleiermacher. After holding the chair of philosophy at Halle for two years, he became, in 1833, professor at […]
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The Idealism of Freedom: For a Hegelian Turn in Philosophy
In The Idealism of Freedom, Klaus Vieweg argues for a Hegelian turn in philosophy. Hegel’s idealism of freedom contains a number of epoch-making ideas that articulate a new understanding of freedom, which still shape contemporary philosophy. Hegel establishes a modern logic, as well as the idea of a social state. With his distinction between civil […]
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Hegel: Der Philosoph der Freiheit
Jedes Jahr am 14. Juli soll Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ein Glas Champagner auf den Beginn der Französischen Revolution getrunken haben. Diese Revolution war das sein Leben und Denken prägende Ereignis. Das Grundmotiv der Freiheit durchzieht den gesamten Denk- und Lebensweg des bedeutendsten Philosophen des 19. Jahrhunderts. Zu Hegels 250. Geburtstag erscheint die erste umfassende […]
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The Slovene Re-Actualization of Hegel’s Philosophy
To begin with a joke, the world history may have ended in 1806 at the battle of Jena where Napoleon defeated the Prussian Army, but, ironically, it was re-opened with a new reading of Hegel in one of the most provincial places on Earth in one of the most hollow periods of its history, in […]
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True Sacrifice: On Hegel’s Presentation of Self-Consciousness
The paper provides a modest reading of Hegel’s treatment of self-consciousness in his Phenomenology of Spirit and tries to present it as an integral part of the overall project of the experience of consciousness leading from understanding to reason. Its immediate objective is, it is argued, to think the independence and dependence, that is the […]
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‘Identity and Its Vicissitudes Hegel’s ‘Logic of Essence’ as a Theory of Ideology’ by Slavoj Žižek
…When dealing with the theme ‘Hegel and identity’, one should never forget that identity emerges only in the logic of essence, as a ‘determination-of-reflection’: what Hegel calls ‘identity’ is not a simple self-equality of any notional determination (red is red, winter is winter . . .); it is the identity of an essence which ‘stays […]
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Hegel’s Logic as the Exposition of God from the End of the World
The article attempts to reconstruct the logical space within which, at the beginning of Hegel’s Logic, “being” and “nothing” are entitled to emerge and receive their names. In German Idealism, the concept of “being” is linked to the form of a proposition; Fichte grounds a new truth-value on the absolute thesis of the “thetical judgement”. […]
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The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism
German Idealism is one of the most fruitful and influential movements in the history of philosophy. This book covers this era in meticulous detail, with contributions from some of the best scholars in this field, nearly all of which have been specially commissioned for this volume. Chapters set the philosophers and their work in historical […]
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Hegel’s Transcendental Induction
The book challenges the orthodox account of Hegelian phenomenology as a hyper-rationalism, arguing that Hegel’s insistence on the primacy of experience in the development of scientific knowledge amounts to a kind of empiricism, or inductive epistemology. While the inductive element does not exclude an emphasis on deductive demonstration as well, Hegel’s phenomenological description of knowledge […]
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Mapping Ideology
Not so long ago, the term “ideology” was in considerable disrepute. Its use had become associated with a claim to know a truth beyond ideology, a radically unfashionable position. What then explains the sudden revival of interest in grappling with the questions that ‘ideology’ poses to social and cultural theory, as well as to political […]
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State in Time
Become a citizen of the first global state of the universe! The NSK State in Time emerged in 1992, evolving in the context of the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the transformation Neue Slowenische Kunst. Existing both as an artwork and a social formation, a state that encompasses all time but holding no territory, the NSK […]
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The Century
The 20th century has been judged and condemned as the century of totalitarian terror, of utopian and dangerous ideologies, of empty illusions and mass genocides. In this major book Badiou undertakes to re-examine this century through an immanent investigation of the century itself in its unfolding. DOWNLOAD: (.pdf)
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Manifesto for Philosophy
Manifesto for Philosophy evokes many possible directions that may be signaling one of the most important transitions in modern thought, with great implications and a rich source of inspiration. It begins by questioning if philosophy is dead. Contra those proclaiming the end of philosophy, Badiou aims to restore philosophical thought. The Death of Philosophy is […]
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‘The Parallax View’ by Slavoj Žižek
The Parallax View is one of Slavoj Žižek’s most substantial theoretical works; at the time of publishing Žižek himself described it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Žižek is interested in the “parallax gap” separating two points between which no […]
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‘Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology’ by Slavoj Žižek
In Tarrying with the Negative, Žižek challenges the contemporary critique of ideology, and in doing so opens the way for a new understanding of social conflict, particularly the recent outbursts of nationalism and ethnic struggle. Are we, Žižek asks, confined to a postmodern universe in which truth is reduced to the contingent effect of various […]
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Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
Written during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist theory. A collection of seven notebooks on capital and money, it both develops the arguments outlined in the Communist Manifesto (1848) and explores the themes and theses that were to dominate his great later work Capital. Here, for the […]
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A “Cancel Culture” Parallax by Slavoj Žižek | Compact Magazine | January 23, 2023
Parallax refers to the apparent displacement of an object, the shift of its position against a background, caused by a change of the point from which we observe it. The philosophical twist to be added is that the observed difference isn’t simply “subjective,” due to the fact that the same object that exists “out there” […]
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The Birth of Theory
Modern theory needs a history lesson. Neither Marx nor Nietzsche first gave us theory―Hegel did. To support this contention, Andrew Cole’s The Birth of Theory presents a refreshingly clear and lively account of the origins and legacy of Hegel’s dialectic as theory. Cole explains how Hegel boldly broke from modern philosophy when he adopted medieval dialectical habits […]
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‘The Phenomenology of Spirit’ by G. W. F. Hegel | Peter Fuss & John Dobbins Translation
The Phenomenology of Spirit, first published in 1807, is G. W. F. Hegel’s remarkable philosophical text that examines the dynamics of human experience from its simplest beginnings in consciousness through its development into ever more complex and self-conscious forms. The work explores the inner discovery of reason and its progressive expansion into spirit, a world […]
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Society of Friends of the Hegelian Dialectic
I’ve created a new online group aimed to those with an interest in the study of Hegel and related literature in dialectics. Everyone is encouraged to join and to invite any friends you might find interested in this area of study. This group is meant as a project for the long-term, as a place to […]
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Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed
Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Žižek’s guide to surplus (and why it’s enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is surplus to our needs is by its very […]
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Hegel after Derrida
Hegel occupies a unique position within the development of Derrida’s thought, for Hegel is both the antithesis of deconstruction and its very point of departure. Derida has stressed from his earliest work to his book-length study of Hegel, Glas, that we must come to terms with Hegel’s work. For one of the fundamental tasks of […]
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Philosophy by Other Means: The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts
Throughout his career, Robert B. Pippin has examined the relationship between philosophy and the arts. With his writings on film, literature, and visual modernism, he has shown that there are aesthetic objects that cannot be properly understood unless we acknowledge and reflect on the philosophical concerns that are integral to their meaning. Philosophy by Other […]
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Translating Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit and Modern Philosophy
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit stands at the crossroads of modern philosophy. Taking us from the lowest and simplest level of sense-certainty through ever more complex forms of knowing and acting, Hegel’s monumental work eventually aspires to nothing less than a blueprint for absolute knowledge: a unity of subject and object, finite and infinite, man and […]
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Hegel’s Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life
This fresh and original book argues that the central questions in Hegel’s practical philosophy are the central questions in modern accounts of freedom: What is freedom, or what would it be to act freely? Is it possible so to act? And how important is leading a free life? Robert Pippin argues that the core of […]
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G.W.F. Hegel: The Jena System, 1804-5: Logic and Metaphysics
As he worked on the Jena system, Hegel’s understanding of the nature of logic and its connection with metaphysics underwent changes crucial to his later system. As a result, logic acquired a new and expanded significance for him. This text is thus the key to an understanding of the works of Hegel’s maturity, and to […]
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Marx’s Grundrisse and Hegel’s Logic
This book argues that Marx’s critique of political economy, and his critique of Hegel, are double interrelated. Not only did Marx adapt Hegelian logic in order to analyse the economic categories crucial to modern society but it is argued that those logical categories were themselves seen as reflections of the productive processes of contemporary commercial […]
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Metaphysics to Metafictions: Hegel, Nietzsche, and the End of Philosophy
Through close reading and interpretive reflections, Paul Miklowitz examines key dialectics in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit in order to come to terms with the undoing of the Hegelian system of totality inaugurated by Nietzsche. In his interpretation of the Phenomenology, Miklowitz shows how Hegel skillfully manipulates narrative structures, even while disavowing them. Tracing the self-undermining […]