Category: German Idealism
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Subjects in the Ancient and Modern World: On Hegel’s Theory of Subjectivity
Being a subject and being conscious of being one are different realities. According to Hegel, the difference is not only conceptual, but also influences people’s experience of the world and of one another. This book aims to explain some basic aspects of Hegel’s conception of subjectivity with particular regard to the difference he saw in […]
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Feminist Interpretations of G. W. F. Hegel
A pivotal figure in critical theory and the modern/postmodern debates, G. W. F. Hegel is the subject of differing feminist critiques. Going beyond and behind Simone de Beauvoir’s creative appropriation of Hegel in The Second Sex, the essays gathered together here think both with and against the grain of Hegel’s dialectical theory through the lens of […]
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The Law of Nations in Political Thought: A Critical Survey from Vitoria to Hegel
Charles Covell examines the law of nations encountered in the work of major political thinkers from Vitoria to Hegel. He explains how these thinkers contributed to the current theories of natural law and just war and how they played a key role in the elaboration of the principles which are central to the modern system […]
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Relating Hegel’s Science of Logic to Contemporary Philosophy: Themes and Resonances
This book offers an interpretation of certain Hegelian concepts, and their relevance to various themes in contemporary philosophy, which will allow for a non-metaphysical understanding of his thought, further strengthening his relevance to philosophy today by placing him in the midst of current debates. DOWNLOAD: (.pdf)
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Mladen Dolar: Heglova fenomenologija duha
“Pričujoča knjiga prinaša v enem zvezku ponatis dveh knjig, ki sta izšli ločeno in ki sta že davno pošli: Heglova Fenomenologija duha I, Ljubljana: DTP-Analecta 1990 in Samozavedanje: Heglova Fenomenologija duha II, Ljubljana: DTP-Analecta 1992. Knjigi sta ponatisnjeni v praktično nespremenjeni obliki, le z nekaj manjšimi popravki. Čeprav sem kot avtor po četrt stoletja z […]
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Žižek’s ‘Concrete Universality, from Continental to Analytic Philosophy: Kant, Hegel, Lacan & Marx’
Recordings from the Summer School in Critical Theory held in July 2015 at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London. Slavoj Žižek is a Philosopher and Psychoanalytic social theorist. He is Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana; Professor at the School of Law and Director of the Institute for […]
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Žižek presents ‘Hegel and the End of Art: A Delimitation from Pippin’
When a philosopher deals with another philosopher or philosophy, his or her stance is never one of dialogue, but always one of division, of drawing the line that separates truth from falsity – from Plato whose focus is the line that divides truth from mere opinion, up to Lenin who is obsessed with the line […]
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Žižek presents ‘The Absolute Recoil: Hegel and the New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism’
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 new work. Recent history has seen developments such as quantum physics and Freudian psychoanalysis, […]
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Hegel and the Problem of Multiplicity
At the center of Hegel and the Problem of Multiplicity is the question: what could the term “multiplicity” mean for philosophy? Andrew Haas contends that most contemporary philosophical understandings of multiplicity are either Aristotelian or Kantian and that these approaches have solidified into a philosophy guided by categories of identity and different—categories to which multiplicity as such […]
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Hegel and Skepticism
The rejection by Anglo-Saxon philosophers of much “continental philosophy” (from Hegel on down) is largely based on the perceived failure of continental thinkers to grapple with the tough questions of epistemology in general and skepticism in particular. Michael Forster demonstrates that Hegel did not in fact ignore epistemology, but on the contrary he fought a […]
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‘Lord and Bondsman on the Couch’ by Mladen Dolar
There is perhaps no other passage in the history of philosophy which has met with such a delirium of interpretations and so much scrutiny as the couple of pages where Hegel deals with the dialectic of lord and bondsman. The passage presents a scene which is both spectacular and overladen with metaphysical hidden meanings and […]
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Hegel’s Lectures on the History of Philosophy. The Lectures of 1825-26 Volume III: Medieval and Modern Philosophy
Hegel’s interpretation of the history of philosophy not only played a central role in the shaping of his own thought, but also has had a great influence on the development of historical thinking. In his own view the study of the history of philosophy is the study of philosophy itself. This explains why such a […]
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Hegel’s Lectures on the History of Philosophy. The Lectures of 1825-26 Volume II: Greek Philosophy
Hegel’s Lectures on the History of Philosophy offer one of the best points of entry to his philosophical system. The second volume (dating from 1825-6) covers a thousand years of ancient Greek philosophy; this is the period to which Hegel devoted by far the most attention, and which he saw as absolutely fundamental for all that came […]
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Hegel’s Lectures on the History of Philosophy. The Lectures of 1825-26 Volume I: Introduction and Oriental Philosophy
Hegel’s lectures have had as great a historical impact as the works he himself published. Important elements of his system are elaborated only in the lectures, especially those given in Berlin during the last decade of his life. The original editors conflated materials from different sources and dates, obscuring the development and logic of Hegel’s […]
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Hegel and Right: A Study of the Philosophy of Right
In this book, Philip J. Kain introduces Hegel’s Philosophy of Right by focusing on disagreements, both with standard interpretations of his work and with Hegel himself. Arguing that Hegel’s justification for punishment ultimately fails, Kain shows how this failure brings into focus the inherent difficulties in justifying punishment at all, thus producing a valuable Hegelian […]
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Hegel and the Other: A Study of the Phenomenology of Spirit
This volume by Philip J. Kain is one of the most accessibly written books on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit available. Avoiding technical jargon without diluting Hegel’s thought, Kain shows the Phenomenology responding to Kant in far more places than are usually recognized. This perspective makes Hegel’s text easier to understand. Kain also argues against the […]
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Hegel’s Recollection: A Study of Images in the Phenomenology of Spirit
Donald Phillip Verene has advanced a completely new reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. He shows that the philosophic meaning of this work depends as much on Hegel’s use of metaphor and image as it does on Hegel’s dialectical and discursive descriptions of various stages of consciousness. The focus is on Hegel’s concept of recollection […]
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The Heterodox Hegel
Cyril O’Regan argues for a theological reading of Hegel which clarifies the religious or theological species Hegel thinks can be brought into rapprochement with philosophy; unites a number of different approaches to Hegel which have proven fruitful, if incomplete; and, within the bounds of a systematic approach, addresses questions of a religio-theological type, including Hegel’s […]
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Beyond Hegel and Dialectic: Speculation, Cult, and Comedy
This book is a defense of speculative philosophy in the wake of Hegel. In a number of wide-ranging, meditative essays, Desmond deals with the criticism of speculative thought in post-Hegelian thinking. He covers the interpretation of Hegelian speculation in terms of the metataxological notion of being and the concept of philosophy that Desmond has developed […]
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The Politics of Salvation: The Hegelian Idea of the State
The Politics of Salvation takes a radical stance: it focuses on the significance of the state in the Hegelian system when it is viewed as inspired and motivated by the Christian notion of God. The book thus makes connections between Hegel’s political philosophy and his explicit appropriation of Christianity’s incarnational mode of thinking. In unfolding […]
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History and System: Hegel’s Philosophy of History
History and System represents the first volume on Hegel’s philosophy of history to be published in English. The editor notes that “with the possible exceptions of Augustine and Vico, no philosopher before Hegel had such a deep sense of the mutual penetration of history and philosophy as did Hegel. Historical reflection influenced his reading of […]
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Hegel’s ‘Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, Volume I: Manuscripts of the Introduction and the Lectures of 1822-1823’
This is the first part (of three) of the new translation of Hegel’s Lectures on World History from 1822-1823 in translation by Robert Brown and Peter Hodgson, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2011. This edition includes a lengthy introduction by the translators, along with translations of notes and loose sheets by Hegel. […]
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‘Lectures on the Philosophy of World History’ by Georg W. F. Hegel
Hegel’s introduction to his lectures on the philosophy of history, based directly on the standard German edition by Johannes Hoffmeister, first published in 1955. The previous English translation, by J. Sibree, first appeared in 1857 is said to have been based on a “defective” German edition of Karl Hegel, to which Hoffmeister’s edition added a […]
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‘ The Philosophy of History’ by Georg W. F. Hegel
The Philosophy of History is at the center of Hegel’s philosophy. What is more, it is the work that has exerted the most profound influence over the years. All his most basic notions, such as the world spirit, reason, freedom, receive their meaning and significance within a historical context. This edition was first published in […]
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‘Lectures on the Philosophy of History’ by Georg W. F. Hegel
This is the Alvarado translation of what many consider to be Hegel’s most accessible work. The Lectures on the Philosophy of History are a tour-de-force, an audacious attempt to summarize world history and the purpose behind it. Was Hegel the progenitor of the power-state that unified Germany became? The Lectures, the mature fruit of Hegel’s […]
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‘Introduction to the Philosophy of History’ by Georg W. F. Hegel
This short book admirably picks up the spirit of what Hegel is saying. It is said to be more accurate than Hartmann’s, and translates a more readable text than does Nisbet’s. It includes (as Hartmann’s does not) an excerpt, which serves as chapter five, from ‘The Geographical Basis of History‘ (particularly interesting for what it […]
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Hegel: Reason in History—A General Introduction to the Philosophy of History
Influenced by Kant’s transcendental idealism and Rousseau’s politics, Hegel formulated an elaborate system of historical development of ethics, government, and religion through the dialectical unfolding of the Absolute. DOWNLOAD: (.pdf)
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The Most Sublime Hysteric: Hegel with Lacan
What do we know about Hegel? What do we know about Marx? What do we know about democracy and totalitarianism? Communism and psychoanalysis? What do we know that isn’t a platitude that we’ve heard a thousand times – or a self-satisfied certainty? Through his brilliant reading of Hegel, Slavoj Žižek – one of the most […]
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The Laws of the Spirit: A Hegelian Theory of Justice
Drawing from a variety of Hegel’s writings, Shannon Hoff articulates a theory of justice that requires answering simultaneously to three irreducibly different demands: those of community, universality, and individuality. The domains of “ethicality,” “legality,” and “morality” correspond to these essential dimensions of human experience, and a political system that fails to give adequate recognition to […]
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The Hegel Variations: On the Phenomenology of Spirit
In this major study, philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers an innovative reading of a book that forms part of the bedrock of modern Western thought: Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. In contrast to those who see the Phenomenology as a closed system ending with Absolute Spirit, Jameson’s reading presents an open work in which […]
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Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition
Glenn Alexander Magee’s pathbreaking book argues that Hegel was decisively influenced by the Hermetic tradition, a body of thought with roots in Greco-Roman Egypt. Magee traces the influence on Hegel of such Hermetic thinkers as Baader, Böhme, Bruno, and Paracelsus, and fascination with occult and paranormal phenomena. Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition covers Hegel’s philosophical […]
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Starting with Hegel
G.W.F. Hegel is without doubt one of the most important and influential thinkers in the whole history of philosophy. Covering all the key concepts of his work, Starting with Hegel provides an accessible introduction to this significant thinker. Thematically structured, the book leads the reader through a thorough overview of the development of Hegel’s thought. […]
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Self-Consciousness and the Critique of the Subject: Hegel, Heidegger, and the Poststructuralists
Poststructuralists hold Hegel responsible for giving rise to many of modern philosophy’s problematic concepts―the authority of reason, self-consciousness, the knowing subject. Yet, according to Simon Lumsden, this animosity is rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of Hegel’s thought, and resolving this tension can not only heal the rift between poststructuralism and German idealism but also point […]
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The Virtues of Modernity: Recovering Hegel from the Critique of Leo Strauss
This work offers a defense of modernity against the critique of the influential mid-twentieth century political philosopher, Leo Strauss. Strauss, whose influence on contemporary conservative political theory is well documented, discovered the ground of much of what he found wanting in contemporary political and social life to lie in the philosophy of the 19th century German […]
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Readings in Interpretation: Hölderlin, Hegel, Heidegger
Readings in Interpretation—a volume primarily on the texts of Hölderlin, Hegel, and their interpreter Heidegger—locates itself strategically between literature and philosophy. In keeping with this juxtaposition, it treats the question of self-consciousness and reflection on the levels of “theme” and “text.” For both Hegel and Hölderlin, selfconsciousness and its relation to knowing are explicit themes, […]
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Infinite Phenomenology: The Lesson of Hegel’s Science of Experience
Infinite Phenomenology builds on John Russon’s earlier book, Reading Hegel’s Phenomenology, to offer a second reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. Here again, Russon writes in a lucid, engaging style and, through careful attention to the text and a subtle attunement to the existential questions that haunt human life, he demonstrates how powerfully Hegel’s philosophy can speak […]
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Reading Hegel’s Phenomenology
In Reading Hegel’s Phenomenology, John Russon uses the theme of reading to clarify the methods, premises, evidence, reasoning, and conclusions developed in Hegel’s seminal text. Russon’s approach facilitates comparing major sections and movements of the text, and demonstrates that each section of Phenomenology of Spirit stands independently in its focus on the themes of human […]
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature
The Philosophy of Nature is the second part of Hegel’s Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, Part I being his Logic and Part III being his Philosophy of Mind. Hegel’s aim in this work is to interpret the varied phenomena of Nature from the standpoint of a dialectical logic. Those who still think of Hegel as a merely a priori philosopher […]
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Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel’s Philosophy
Petrified Intelligence offers the first comprehensive treatment of Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature, exploring its central place within his system, including its relation to his Logic, Philosophy of Mind, and moral and political thought. It highlights the contemporary relevance of Hegel’s approach to nature, particularly with respect to environmental issues. Challenging the standard view that Hegel […]
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Love and Politics: Re-Interpreting Hegel
Alice Ormiston’s Love and Politics argues that modern politics is rooted not merely in the pursuit of power, but that it is essentially underpinned by the experience of love. Hegel understood love as a principle that unites reason and emotion, and self and other, and that provides the foundation for a deep sense of connectedness […]
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Hegel’s Theory of Responsibility
A crucial aspect of Hegel’s practical philosophy is his theory of responsibility. This theory is both original and radical in its emphasis on the role and importance of social and historical conditions as a context for our actions. But even those who agree that there is something valuable in Hegel’s emphasis on sociality are not […]
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Hegel’s Discovery of the Philosophy of Spirit: Autonomy, Alienation, and the Ethical Life
Hegel’s Discovery of the Philosophy of Spirit explores Hegel’s critique of the individualistic ethos of modernity, and the genesis of his alternative vision. Hegel, following Hölderlin and Fichte, sees the conflict between the autonomy trumpeted by philosophers, and the sense of rupture and alienation characteristic of the individual’s experience of life, as the fundamental existential dilemma […]
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Hegel: Political Writings
With a full chronology, general introduction, explanatory annotation, glossary and bibliography, this volume seeks to give students with no specialist knowledge access to both the practical and metaphysical aspects of Hegel’s political thought. This collection gathers together in English translation Hegel’s most important political writings, other than the Philosophy of Right, and provides insights into […]
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Hegel, the End of History, and the Future
In Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel is often held to have announced the end of history, where ‘history’ is to be understood as the long pursuit of ends towards which humanity had always been striving. In this, the first book in English to thoroughly critique this entrenched view, Eric Michael Dale argues that it is a […]
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Hegel and Theology
Hegel makes philosophical proposals concerning religion and Christianity that demand critical reflection. Hegel and Theology discusses the role that an understanding of religion and Christianity play in the development of Hegel’s idea of philosophy; Hegel’s treatment of religious experience; the problem of the relation between the world and God and the issue of God’s transcendence. […]
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Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity
Hegel’s doctrines of absolute negativity and ‘the Concept’ are among his most original contributions to philosophy and they constitute the systematic core of dialectical thought. Brady Bowman explores the interrelations between these doctrines, their implications for Hegel’s critical understanding of classical logic and ontology, natural science and mathematics as forms of ‘finite cognition’, and their […]
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Divergent Paths: Hegel in Marxism and Engelsism
Divergent Paths is the first volume of a planned forthcoming three-volume work. Its purpose is to explore the relationship between Hegel and Marx; to define the relationship between Hegel and Engels; and to distinguish between the theories of Marxism and Engelsism. Marx used Feuerbach towards the critique and ultimate transformation of Hegel’s phenomenology and humanism. […]
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‘Hegel’ by Edward Caird
The book is the analysis of the works of one important philosopher by another. Edward Caird was without doubt one of the leading Scottish philosophers of the late nineteenth century, and an important British Idealist. That his work (as with the work of other British Idealists) has been influenced by Hegel and other German Idealists […]
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Education in Hegel
In this wide-ranging and compelling set of essays, Nigel Tubbs illustrates how a philosophical notion of education lies at the heart of Hegelian philosophy and employs it to critique some of the stereotypes and misreadings from which Hegel often suffers. With chapters on philosophical education in relation to life and death, self and other, subject […]
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‘Early Theological Writings’ by Georg W. F. Hegel
This volume includes Hegel’s most important early theological writings, though not all of the materials collected by Herman Nohl in his definitive Hegels theologische Jugendschriften (Tuebingen, 1907). The most significant omissions are a series of fragments to which Nohl give the general title “National Religion and Christianity” and the essay “Life of Jesus.” DOWNLOAD: (.pdf)
Simon Gros 