Category: German Idealism
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Art and Logic in Hegel’s Philosophy
This volume incorporates papers presented at the 1974 meeting of the Society, which was held at Georgetown University. The present volume makes available scholarly work on two of the most creative parts of Hegel’s philosophy, his Aesthetics and his Logic. DOWNLOAD: (.pdf)
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The Speculative Remark: (One of Hegel’s Bons Mots)
This work, by one of the most innovative and challenging of contemporary thinkers, pivots on a Remark added by Hegel in 1831 to the second edition of his Science of Logic. As a model of close reading applied both to philosophical texts and the making of philosophical systems, The Speculative Remark played a significant role in transforming the practice of…
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Hegel was right: The Myth of the Empirical Sciences
In Hegel was right the author demonstrates that the tradition of the grand philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant and Hegel) made the gift of some key theses of crucial importance for the humanity. These theses widely resist the positivism and skepticism attack. The demonstrative key consists in making realize that the key concepts have not empirical…
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Spirit: Chapter Six of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
This annotated translation of Chapter Six of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, the joint product of a group of scholars that included H. S. Harris, George di Giovanni, John W. Burbidge, and Kenneth Schmitz, represents an advance in accuracy and fluency on previous translations into English of this core chapter of the Phenomenology. Its notes and commentary…
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Hegel, Freedom, and Modernity
This book studies the intersection of Hegel’s political theory as developed in the Philosophy of Right with his philosophy of religion and his dialectical, holistic theory of knowledge. It explores both the methodological and theological dimensions of Hegel’s politics by placing him in dialogue with such traditions as Hinduism, the Protestant Reformation, and the contemporary…
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History and Truth in Hegel’s Phenomenology
This detailed interpretation of Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit” seeks to show that the unity of this classic work may be found in the integration of its transcendental and sociological-historical themes. Merold Westphal argues that the key to this unity lies in Hegel’s radical discovery that transcendental subjectivity has a social history and that absolute knowledge…
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Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative: Freud, Hegel, Lacan, Spitz, and Sophocles
Finalist for the 2006 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship presented by the Section on Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology of the Canadian Psychological Association It is often the case that painful truths emerge first in the form of denial; one needs to create distance from what is painful. In Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the…
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Hegel on Art: An Interpretation of Hegel’s Aesthetics
Professor Kaminsky’s lucid exposition is, surprisingly, the first attempt in English to deal extensively and critically with Hegel’s views on art, as outlined in his difficult volumes on that subject. Hegel on Art thus performs a needed service for those interested in either the philosophy or the history of the fine arts. Hegel’s idealistic metaphysics…
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The Disjunctive Logic of the World: Thinking Global Civil Society with Hegel
There is today a cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural recognition of the need to reconceptualize the complexities of the global reality. In this study the authors present the view that a rethinking of Hegel’s concept of Civil Society has the potential to meet this need. They argue that the standard interpretations of Hegel are largely misplaced and…
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Hegel’s Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art, Volume II
This is the second of two volumes of the only English edition of Hegel’s Aesthetics, the work in which he gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. The substantial Introduction is his best exposition of his general philosophy of art. In Part I he considers the general nature of art as a spiritual…
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Hegel’s Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art, Volume I
This is the first of two volumes of the only English edition of Hegel’s Aesthetics, the work in which he gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. The substantial Introduction is his best exposition of his general philosophy of art. In Part I he considers the general nature of art as a spiritual experience,…
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The Cambridge Companion to Hegel
Few thinkers are more controversial in the history of philosophy than Hegel. He has been dismissed as a charlatan and obscurantist, but also praised as one of the greatest thinkers in modern philosophy. No one interested in philosophy can afford to ignore him. This volume considers all the major aspects of Hegel’s work: epistemology, logic,…
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Hegel’s Dialectic: The Explanation of Possibility
Hegel is one of the most often cited and least read of all major philosophers. He is alternately regarded as the best and the worst that philosophy has produced. Nobody, however, disputes his influence. In Hegel’s Dialectic, Terry Pinkard offers a new interpretation of Hegel’s program that assesses his conception of the role of philosophy,…
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The Vitality of Contradiction: Hegel, Politics, and the Dialectic of Liberal-Capitalism
In The Vitality of Contradiction, Bruce Gilbert provides an exposition of Hegel’s political philosophy to establish not only that societies fail because of their contradictions, but also how the unsurpassable oppositions of social life cultivate freedom. He moves beyond Hegel’s works to consider the limits of liberal-capitalism and the contemporary social movements around the world…
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Hegel’s Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences: A Critical Guide
Hegel regarded his Enyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences as the work which most fully presented the scope of his philosophical system and its method. It is somewhat surprising, therefore, that scholars regularly accord it only a secondary status. This Critical Guide seeks to change that, with sixteen newly-written essays from an international group of leading…
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Hegel’s Encyclopedic System
This book discusses the most comprehensive of Hegel’s works: his long-neglected Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline. It contains original essays by internationally renowned and emerging voices in Hegel scholarship. Their contributions elucidate fundamental aspects of Hegel’s encyclopedic system with an eye to its contemporary relevance. The book thus addresses system-level claims about Hegel’s…
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Hegel Short Course: A Primer for Marxists
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels are widely regarded as titans of philosophy, having influenced thinkers from every country, enemies and allies alike. Equally respected is Georg W. F. Hegel. The opposition between Hegel and Marx, however, is taken for granted. The logical development of Marxism out of Hegelian thought is underappreciated. Also underappreciated is the…
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Metaphysics as Christology: An Odyssey of the Self from Kant and Hegel to Steiner
In Metaphysics as Christology, Jonael Schickler presents a major contribution to both philosophy and theology. First he examines the key philosophical problems with which Kant and Hegel grappled, and finds in the work of Rudolf Steiner the essence of a solution to them; he claims that Steiner returned to Hegel’s philosophical problems but was better…
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The Introduction to Hegel’s Philosophy of Fine Art
Originally published in 1905, Bosanquet’s translation of Hegel’s Philosophy of Fine Art brings Hegel’s commentary and analysis of what constitutes beauty and fine art to an English audience as well as presenting his own viewpoints on the work and what is at the heart of true philosophical theory. This title will be of interest to…
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Post-Secularism, Realism and Utopia: Transcendence and Immanence from Hegel to Bloch
This book explores the contribution to recent developments in post-secularism, philosophical realism and utopianism made by key thinkers in the Hegelian tradition. It challenges dominant assumptions about what the relationship between religion and our so-called “secular age” should be that have sought to reduce or even eliminate religiosity from the public sphere. It draws upon…
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Hegel’s Energy: A Reading of the Phenomenology of Spirit
Hegel’s The Phenomenology of Spirit has been one of the most important works of philosophy since the nineteenth century, while the question of energy has been crucial to life in the twenty-first century. In this book, Michael Marder integrates the two, narrating a story about the trials and tribulations of energy embedded in Hegel’s dialectics. Through an original…
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Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, Hegel, and the Present
Few twenty-first century academics take seriously mysticism’s claim that we have direct knowledge of a higher or more “inner” reality or God. But Philosophical Mysticism argues that such leading philosophers of earlier epochs as Plato, G. W. F. Hegel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Alfred North Whitehead were, in fact, all philosophical mystics. This book discusses major versions of…
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Hegel and Legal Theory
The first collection of essays directed towards jurisprudence with a Hegelian theme. The editors are committed to the idea that Hegel is the future source of great energy and insight within the legal academy. Table of Contents Part I: Being, Person, Community and the Ethical Foundation of Law1. The Repressed Intersubjectivity in Hegel’s Philosophy of…
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Hegel and the Foundations of Literary Theory
Do the various forms of literary theory – deconstruction, Marxism, new historicism, feminism, post-colonialism, and cultural/digital studies – have anything in common? If so, what are the fundamental principles of theory? What is its ideological orientation? Can it still be of use to us in understanding basic intellectual and ethical dilemmas of our time? These…
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Translation and Hegel’s Philosophy
This volume engages with translations of philosophy as complex, socially structured narratives bound by emotional, political and philosophical connections, exploring these dynamics at work in A.V. Miller’s Hegel translations and retranslations published between 1969 and 1986. The book contextualises Miller’s lifelong commitment to Hegel and builds on this narrative to lay the foundations for its…
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Hegel’s Retreat from Eleusis: Studies in Political Thought
Concentrating on Hegel’s political philosophy, George Armstrong Kelly pursues three lines of inquiry. The first is the broad question of the connection of philosophy, politics, and history within Hegel’s system of thought. Second, the author explores Hegel’s relationship with his surrounding political culture and his rejection of aestheticism for the higher goal of politics. Finally,…
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Simply Hegel
Born in Stuttgart, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) attended the Gymnasium Illustre and, at the age of 18, entered the Tübingen Seminary, from which he received his theological certificate in 1793. His early writings, composed while he was serving as a family tutor in Bern and Frankfurt, dealt with religious subjects. From 1801 until his untimely death…
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Philosophy and Revolution: From Hegel to Sartre, and from Marx to Mao
Few thought systems have been as distorted and sometimes misconstrued as those of Marx and Hegel. Philosophy and Revolution, presented here in a new edition, attempts to save Marx from interpretations which restrict the revolutionary significance of the philosophy behind his theory. Developing her breakthrough on Hegel’s Absolute Idea, Raya Dunayevskaya, who died in the June…
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‘ Speculative Philosophy’ by Donald Phillip Verene
In this original and illuminating work, the reader is invited to approach philosophy as an activity that can instruct, delight, and move. On this view, philosophy can be seen as a key to human education, a mastery of humane letters, and a part of the republic of the liberal arts. Embracing this approach to philosophy,…
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Between Tradition and Revolution: The Hegelian Transformation of Political Philosophy
The studies in this 1996 volume consider Hegel’s mature views on ethics and politics and relate them to the classical tradition of Western political thought. Manfred Tiedel brings to the analysis of Hegel’s views a high level of scholarship and a thorough knowledge of earlier thinkers. Concentrating on the Philosophy of Right, he reveals connections…
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Freedom and Independence: A Study of the Political Ideas of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Mind
Originally published in 1976, this book was written specifically to guide students of political theory who want to understand Hegel’s political ideas as they appear in The Phenomenology of Mind. Professor Shklar’s commentary uses plain language and English translations of references wherever possible. The core of Hegel’s argument is that freedom is the identity of…
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Hegel’s Political Philosophy: Problems and Perspectives
Originally published in 1971, this volume was created to commemorate the bicentenary of Hegel’s birth in 1770. Thirteen essays are included from experts with diverse approaches, concentrating on the central issues of Hegel’s political philosophy, and covering all of the major political works. These essays demonstrate the vitality of Hegel’s philosophical perspective, engaging the reader…
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‘Hegel’s Ontology and Theory of Historicity’ by Herbert Marcuse
This was Herbert Marcuse’s first book on Hegel, written in the early 1930s when he was under the strong influence of Martin Heidegger. It provides a still unequaled Heideggerian reading of Hegel’s thought that seeks the defining characteristics of “historicity” – what it means to say that a historical event happens. These ideas were foundational…
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The Scottish Enlightenment and Hegel’s Account of ‘Civil Society’
Extract from the Foreword: “What the reader is invited to explore is a branch line in the understanding of Hegel’s social and political theory. However it is an important one. For one thing it helps to reinforce a side of Hegel’s thought that has often been overlooked or played down, or alternatively said by Marxists,…
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Hegel and the Frankfurt School
This collection of original essays discusses the relationship between Hegel and the Frankfurt School Critical Theory tradition. The book’s aim is to take stock of this fascinating, complex, and complicated relationship. The volume is divided into five parts: Part I focuses on dialectics and antagonisms. Part II is concerned with ethical life and intersubjectivity. Part…
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Kant and the Historical Turn: Philosophy As Critical Interpretation
Immanuel Kant’s work changed the course of modern philosophy; Karl Ameriks examines how. He compares the philosophical system set out in Kant’s Critiques with the work of the major philosophers before and after Kant. Individual essays provide case studies in support of Ameriks’s thesis that late 18th-century reactions to Kant initiated an “historical turn,” after…
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The Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Louis Althusser enjoyed virtually unrivalled status as the foremost living Marxist philosopher. Today, he is remembered as the scourge and severest critic of “humanist” or Hegelian Marxism, as the proponent of rigorously scientific socialism, and as the theorist who posited a sharp rupture—an epistemological break—between the early and the late…
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Hegel’s Epistemological Realism: A Study of the Aim and Method of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
The scope of this study is both ambitious and modest. One of its ambitions is to reintegrate Hegel’s theory of knowledge into main stream epistemology. Hegel’s views were formed in consideration of Classical Skepticism and Modern epistemology, and he frequently presupposes great familiarity with other views and the difficulties they face. Setting Hegel’s discussion in…
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Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France
This classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the genesis and trajectory of the desiring subject from Hegel’s formulation in Phenomenology of Spirit to its appropriation by Kojève, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault. Judith Butler plots the French reception of Hegel and the successive challenges waged against his…
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‘Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism’ by Slavoj Žižek
Philosophical materialism in all its forms – from scientific naturalism to Deleuzian New Materialism – has failed to meet the key theoretical and political challenges of the modern world. This is the burden of philosopher Slavoj Žižek’s argument in this pathbreaking and eclectic new work. Recent history has seen developments such as quantum physics and…
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The Highway of Despair: Critical Theory After Hegel
Hegel’s “highway of despair,” introduced in his Phenomenology of Spirit, is the tortured path traveled by “natural consciousness” on its way to freedom. Despair, the passionate residue of Hegelian critique, also indicates fugitive opportunities for freedom and preserves the principle of hope against all hope. Analyzing the works of an eclectic cast of thinkers, Robyn Marasco…
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Philosophy without Foundations: Rethinking Hegel
William Maker contends that Hegel’s philosophy is not consummately foundational and absolutist, but rather a nonfoundational philosophy which incorporates some contemporary criticisms of foundationalism without abandoning philosophy’s traditional goal of offering demonstrable, objective truth. DOWNLOAD: (.pdf)
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Hegel and Aesthetics
In his Lectures on Aesthetics, Hegel presents art not only as capable of rational comprehension, but as being an embodiment of our free rationality in the sensible. As free rational beingsas Spiritualhumans strive to objectify, express, and comprehend ourselves. Art is one way in which we do this. In art the outer world of objective…
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Hegel, Marx, and the English State
This work is a radically revised intellectual portrait of Hegel and Marx that challenges standard interpretations of their political theory and places their political thought directly into social and historical context. David MacGregor reveals the revolutionary content of Hegel’s social theory and the Hegelian themes that underlie Marx’s analysis of the English state in Capital,…
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From Hegel to Nietzsche: The Revolution in the Nineteenth Century Thought
Beginning with an examination of the relationship between Hegel and Goethe, Löwith discusses how Hegel’s students, particularly Marx and Kierkegaard, interpreted—or reinterpreted—their master’s thought, and proceeds with an in-depth assessment of the other important philosophers, from Feuerbach, Stirner, and Schelling to Nietzsche. Table of Contents PART ONE: STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF THE GERMAN SPIRIT…
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‘The Young Hegel: Studies in the Relations between Dialectics and Economics’ by Georg Lukács
“If we are to understand not only the direct impact of Marx on the development of German thought but also his sometimes extremely indirect influence, an exact knowledge of Hegel, of both his greatness and his limitation, is absolutely indispensable.“ It is well known that Hegel exerted a major influence on the development of Marx’s…
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Hegel’s Phenomenology: Dialogues on The Life of Mind
One of the classics in the 1960s in Hegel’s scholarship, an original analysis, cast in dialogue form. In recent years, Hegel has been receiving attention from American philosophers, including Robert Brandom and Robert Pippin. For much of the 20th century, Hegel and his 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit were little studied in the United States, given the prevalence…
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Democracy, Dialectics, and Difference: Hegel, Marx, and 21st Century Social Movements
It has been nearly two centuries since Marx famously turned Hegel on his head in order to repurpose dialectics as a revolutionary way of thinking about the internal contradictions of our social relations. Despite critiques from post-structuralists, post-colonialists, and others, there has been a resurgence of dialectical thought among political theorists as of late. This…
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The Development of the Idea of Estrangement in Hegel’s Early Writings
Dissertation, 1951 DOWNLOAD: (.pdf)
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From Marx to Hegel
The essays collected in this volume were mostly written in the 1960’s, a time when the relationship of Marxism to its Hegelian origins was once more discussed at an intellectual level proper to the subject. Table of Contents Introduction1. From Marx to Hegel2. The Origins of Marxism3. On the Interpretation of Marx’s Thought4. Marxist Doctrine…
Simon Gros 