Category: German Idealism
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Hegel, Freud and Fanon: The Dialectic of Emancipation
Revolutionary theories from Marx onward have often struggled to unite the psychological commitments of individuals— understood as ideological— with the larger ethical or political goals of a social movement. As a psychiatrist, social theorist, and revolutionary, Frantz Fanon attempted to connect the ideological and the political. Fanon’s work gives both a psychological explanation of the…
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Music, Masculinity and the Claims of History: The Austro-German Tradition from Hegel to Freud
What does it mean to think of Western Art music – and the Austro-German contribution to that repertory – as a tradition? How are men and masculinities implicated in the shaping of that tradition? And how is the writing of the history (or histories) of that tradition shaped by men and masculinities? This book seeks…
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Hegel’s Theory of Madness
This book shows how an understanding of the nature and role of insanity in Hegel’s writing provides intriguing new points of access to many of the central themes of his larger philosophic project. Berthold-Bond situates Hegel’s theory of madness within the history of psychiatric practice during the great reform period at the turn of the…
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The Early Political Writings of the German Romantics
This book contains all the essential political writings of Friedrich Schlegel, Schleiermacher and Novalis during the formative period of romantic thought (1797 to 1803). The early romantics had an ambition still relevant today: to find a middle path between conservatism and liberalism, between a community ethic and individual freedom. Frederick Beiser’s edition comprises all kinds…
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The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte
The Fate of Reason is the first general history devoted to the period between Kant and Fichte, one of the most revolutionary and fertile in modern philosophy. The philosophers of this time broke with the two central tenets of the modern Cartesian tradition: the authority of reason and the primacy of epistemology. They also witnessed…
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Hegel’s Theory of the Modern State
This study in English of Hegel’s political philosophy presents an overall view of the development of Hegel’s political thinking. The author has drawn on Hegel’s philosophical works, his political tracts and his personal correspondence. Avineri shows that although Hegel is primarily thought of as a philosopher of the state, he was much concerned with social…
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Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism: A Critical Study
This book takes up Lenin’s extensive but little-known writings on Hegel, especially his 1914-15 notebooks on Hegel’s Science of Logic. I argue that in these notes, Lenin broke with the crude materialism of his generation of Marxists and of his own earlier work like Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1908). His confrontation with Hegel was part of…
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Hegel’s Ontology Of Power: The Structure Of Social Domination In Capitalism
Recent attempts to revitalize Hegel’s social and political philosophy have tended to be doubly constrained: firstly, by their focus on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right; and secondly, by their broadly liberal interpretive framework. Challenging that trend, Arash Abazari shows that the locus of Hegel’s genuine critical social theory is to be sought in his ontology –…
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Hegel in A Wired Brain
In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of G.W.F. Hegel, Slavoj Žižek gives us a reading of the philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about our new posthuman era. No ordinary study of Hegel, Hegel in a Wired Brain investigates what he might have had to say about the idea of the ‘wired…
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Subject Lessons: Hegel, Lacan, and the Future of Materialism
Responding to the ongoing “objectal turn” in contemporary humanities and social sciences, the essays in Subject Lessons present a sustained case for the continued importance— indeed, the indispensability—of the category of the subject for the future of materialist thought. Approaching matters through the frame of Hegel and Lacan, the contributors to this volume, including the editors, as well as Andrew Cole, Mladen Dolar,…
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Hegel: An Intellectual Biography
This accessible and highly readable book is a full-length biography of Hegel to be published since the largely outdated treatments of the nineteenth century. Althaus draws on new historical material and scholarly sources about the life and times of this most enigmatic and influential of modern philosophers. He paints a living portrait of a thinker…
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Hegel: Three Studies
This short masterwork in twentieth-century philosophy provides both a major reinterpretation of Hegel and insight into the evolution of Adorno’s critical theory. The first study focuses on the relationship of reason, the individual, and society in Hegel, defending him against the criticism that he was merely an apologist for bourgeois society. The second study examines…
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Leo Strauss on Hegel
In the winter of 1965, Leo Strauss taught a seminar on Hegel at the University of Chicago. While Strauss neither considered himself a Hegelian nor wrote about Hegel at any length, his writings contain intriguing references to the philosopher, particularly in connection with his studies of Hobbes, in his debate in On Tyranny with Alexandre…
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Hegel and Revolution
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was the most outstanding philosopher that emerged from the tumultuous period of change in Europe in the aftermath of the French Revolution. His ideas concerning change exerted a powerful influence on generations of thinkers and activists, including Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Whilst there are many books and articles on Hegel…
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‘Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics’ by Georg W. F. Hegel
No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects – despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For if the artists of classical Greece could find the perfect fusion of content and form, modernity faced complicating – and…
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Practical Philosophy from Kant to Hegel: Freedom, Right, and Revolution
Scholarship on Kant’s practical philosophy has often overlooked its reception in the early days of post-Kantian philosophy and German Idealism. This volume of new essays illuminates that reception and how it informed the development of practical philosophy between Kant and Hegel. The essays discuss, in addition to Kant, Hegel and Fichte, relatively little-known thinkers such…
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Hegel: Reinterpretation, Texts and Commentary
This book, the first intellectual biography of Hegel in English, is designed to acquaint the reader with the man and his philosophy and to place the discussion of Hegel on a new basis. Making abundant use of Hegel’s many writings and letters that have only recently been published and of a great deal of hitherto…
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The Oxford Handbook of Hegel
This book is a comprehensive guide to the philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel, the last major thinker in the philosophical movement known as German Idealism. Beginning with chapters on his first published writings, the authors draw out Hegel’s debts to his predecessors and highlight the themes and arguments that have proven the most influential…
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Remnants of Hegel: Remains of Ontology, Religion, and Community
In the preface to the second edition of the Science of Logic, Hegel speaks of an instinctive and unconscious logic whose forms and determinations “always remain imperceptible and incapable of becoming objective even as they emerge in language.” In spite of Hegel’s ambitions to provide a philosophical system that might transcend messy human nature, Félix Duque…
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The Kyoto School’s Takeover of Hegel: Nishida, Nishitani, and Tanabe Remake the Philosophy of Spirit
The Kyoto School’s Takeover of Hegel: Nishida, Nishitani, and Tanabe Remake the Philosophy of Spirit is Peter Suares’ in-depth analysis of the Kyoto School’s integration of Western philosophical idealism with Japanese religious traditions. Suares traces the School’s attempts to develop a doctrine of absolute nothingness using Hegel’s dialectic of self-consciousness. Hegel’s dialectic plays a formative…
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Pyrrhonian Scepticism and Hegel’s Theory of Judgement: A Treatise on the Possibility of Scientific Inquiry
Hegel’s Science of Logic is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest works of European philosophy. However, its contribution to arguably the most important philosophical problem, Pyrrhonian scepticism, has never been examined in any detail. Pyrrhonian Scepticism and Hegel’s Theory of Judgement fills a great lacuna in Hegel scholarship by convincingly proving that the dialectic…
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Hegel on Hamann
In 1828, G. W. F. Hegel published a critical review of Johann George Hamann, a retrospective of the life and works of one of Germany’s most enigmatic and challenging thinkers and writers. While Hegel’s review had enjoyed a central place in Hamann tudies since its appearance, Hegel on Hamann is the first English translation of…
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The Bloomsbury Companion to Hegel
This international collaborative project on G. W. F. Hegel’s philosophy includes contributions by eighteen scholars of 18th to 20th century philosophy. It will be an essential reference tool for students and scholars of modern philosophic thought in general and of 19th century German thought in particular. The first part of the volume examines Hegel’s early…
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Hegel’s Thought in Europe: Currents, Crosscurrents and Undercurrents
In a broad interdisciplinary perspective, established experts and leading young scholars bring together important currents of Hegelianism in Europe from the 19th to the 21st century to trace the political, social and intellectual contexts in which Hegel’s philosophy was taken up and inspired very different forms of Hegelianism and Anti-Hegelianism. DOWNLOAD: (.pdf)
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Hegel’s Philosophy and Feminist Thought: Beyond Antigone?
Although Hegel and feminism seem an unlikely couple, Hegelian philosophy played a prominent part in the thinking of groundbreaking feminist philosophers from Simone de Beauvoir to Luce Irigaray. This book offers a new generation of feminist readings of Hegel from leading scholars in the both fields. Through close readings and innovative arguments, this book makes…
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Hegel: A Guide for the Perplexed
George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is a philosopher of major and enduring influence. The author of The Phenomenology of Spirit and Foundations of the Philosophy of Right, cornerstones of the philosophical canon, he will be encountered by anyone studying or interested in Western philosophy. Hegel: A Guide for the Perplexed offers an invaluable introduction to Hegel’s thought. David James employs…
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A Companion to Hegel
Georg W.F. Hegel (1770–1831) is one of the most important and sophisticated modern thinkers, but only now are his substantial contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, political philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of history, and philosophy of religion gaining the recognition they deserve. This companion is the first collection of essays to do justice to the extraordinary richness and…
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Hegel’s Philosophy Of Spirit: A Critical Guide
The essays in this volume address topics prominent in current debates about Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit, which originally appeared as the third part of his Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1817, 1827, 1830). Together, a group of internationally recognized Hegel scholars presents a sophisticated, well-researched, and considered account of Hegel’s text, approaching it from different…
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: A Reader’s Guide
Hegel’s Philosophy of Right is a classic text in the history of Western political thought and one with which all serious students of political philosophy must engage. While it is a hugely important and exciting piece of philosophical writing, Hegel’s ideas and style are notoriously difficult to understand and the content is particularly challenging. In this book David Rose explains the philosophical and political…
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Thought and Faith in the Philosophy of Hegel
The purpose of this collection of papers is to introduce English speaking philosophers and theologians to something of the variety of the contemporary debate about the religious relevance of Hegel’s thought. It is published in the hope that it will appeal not only to specialised students of Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion but to a wide…
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The Free Development of Each: Studies on Freedom, Right, and Ethics in Classical German Philosophy
The Free Development of Each collects twelve essays on the history of German philosophy by Allen W. Wood, one of the leading scholars in the field. They explore moral philosophy, politics, society, and history in the works of Kant, Herder, Fichte, Hegel, and Marx, and share the basic theme of freedom, as it appears in morality…
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Critical Perspectives on Freedom and History
Hegel’s Philosophy of Right was his last systematic work and the most complete statement of his mature views on ethical and political philosophy. The text explores the relationships between three distinct conceptions of human freedom: persons as possessing contract rights, subjects as reflective moral agents, and individuals as members of an ethical community. It strongly influenced the…
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The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth Century Philosophy
The nineteenth century is a period of stunning philosophical originality, characterised by radical engagement with the emerging human sciences. Often overshadowed by twentieth century philosophy which sought to reject some of its central tenets, the philosophers of the nineteenth century have re-emerged as profoundly important figures. Table of Contents Introduction Dean Moyar Part 1: German Idealism1.…
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Hegel’s Dialectic
This book was written in 1968, and defended as a doctoral dissertation before the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in 1969. It treats of the systematic views of Hegel which led him to give to the principle of non-contradiction, the principle of double negation, and the principle of excluded middle, meanings which…
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An Introduction to Hegel’s Metaphysics
Hegel had a grand conception of philosophy. He conceived its task to be the attainment of a knowledge which is absolute, that is, without limitation. However, since some of his most important, immediate, philosophical predecessors had placed striking limitations upon man’s cognitive capacities, Hegel had to rebut their restrictions in order to make his conception…
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German Idealism’s Trinitarian Legacy
Dale M. Schlitt presents a study of trinitarian thought as it was understood and debated by the German Idealists broadly—engaging Schelling’s philosophical interpretations of Trinity as well as Hegel’s—and analyzing how these Idealist interpretations influenced later philosophers and theologians. Divided into different sections, one considers nineteenth-century central Europeans Philipp Marheineke, Isaak August Dorner, and Vladimir…
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The Emergence of German Idealism
Immanuel Kant’s “critical philosophy” is rightly renowned for its criticism of the metaphysical pretensions of reason unaided by experience. It therefore seems ironic that, within a single generation, some of Kant’s most important followers argued that the critical philosophy could be made fully critical only by recourse to the very metaphysical themes that Kant had…
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The Future of the Philosophy of Religion
This collection of essays on the philosophy of religion and its future brings together accomplished thinkers across several related fields, from comparative philosophy to analytic and continental philosophy of religion and beyond. Contributing authors address pressing questions including: Where does philosophy stand in relation to religion and the study of religion in the 21st century?…
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The Political Philosophies of Plato and Hegel
Excerpt: “This work purports to be an essay in the history of philosophy. I cannot refrain from giving expression here to my conviction that, whatever may have been possible in past ages, there can be for us no genuine science of philosophy which is not based wholly on the study of the history of philosophy.…
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Truth and Reality in Marx and Hegel: A Reassessment
Sidney Hook once wrote that to join the names of Hegel and Marx is not so much to express a plain relationship as “to raise a problem one of the most challenging problems in the history of thought”; affinities between them seem to go hand in hand with polar oppositions. Hook is most vividly interested…
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The Christology of Hegel
James Yerkes undertakes a systematic exploration of the full range of Hegel’s works to discover what philosophical, religious, and historical significance Hegel attributed to Jesus Christ. “The Christology of Hegel by James Yerkes can take its place among the finest studies in Hegel’s philosophy of religion in any language. The price of admission to Hegel…
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The Imagination in Reason: Reframing the Systematic Core of Idealism in Kant and Hegel
In this dissertation, the author argues that the point of transition between Kant and the Idealists is most aptly identified and comprehended when we bring into view a careful understanding of Kant’s principle of the free lawfulness of the Imagination. The author argues that for Hegel, it was this principle that constituted Kant’s “greatest service…
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Hegel and the Sciences
To the scientists and philosophers of our time, Hegel has been either a neglected or a provocative thinker, a source of irrelevant dark metaphysics or of complex but insightful analysis. His influence upon the work of natural scientists has seemed minimal, in the main; and his stimulus to the nascent sciences of society and to…
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‘Hegel: An Introduction’ by Raymond Plant
First published in 1973, this volume demonstrates the interconnection between Hegel’s political and metaphysical writings. This book provides a point of entry into Hegel’s system of ideas. Condemned unread, and when read far too often misunderstood, Hegel’s thought has once more begun to make its impact on contemporary ideas with many of today’s most important…
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Hegel: New Directions
Over the last decade renewed interest in Hegel’s thought and its legacy, especially in Anglo-American philosophy, has combined with the publication of new critical editions of his work in German to underline the value of Hegel for contemporary philosophy. “Hegel: New Directions” takes stock of this re-evaluation and presents an assessment of current thinking on…
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Journeys to Selfhood: Hegel and Kierkegaard
Taylor (Humanities and Religion, Williams College, Massachusetts) reconsiders the two philosophers based on the notion that all modern philosophy lies between the poles of their thought. He has added a new introduction to the 1980 original edition. Arguably, among the major events of late-18th-century and early-19th-century contributions to Western philosophy are the publication of Hegel’s…
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The Self and its Body in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
A major criticism of Hegel’s philosophy is that it fails to comprehend the experience of the body. In this book, John Russon shows that there is in fact a philosophy of embodiment implicit in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. Russon argues that Hegel has not only taken account of the body, but has done so in a…
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Hegel and the Logical Structure of Love
This study presents an original interpretation of the meaning and complex inter-relationship of the concepts of love, sexuality, family and the law. It argues that they should be understood as forms of interplay between the subjective and the objective, necessity and contingency and unity and difference. A comprehensive elaboration of these forms is to be…
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Hegel and the Tradition: Essays in Honour of H.S. Harris
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) is considered a philosopher of the Tradition, both in the sense that his work is rooted in the political, artistic, religious, and philosophical traditions of European culture and in the sense that he takes up the notion of tradition as an object of philosophical investigation. This collection examines Hegel’s philosophy…
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Hegel and Language
The first anthology explicitly dedicated to Hegel’s linguistic thought, Hegel and Language presents various facets of a new wave of Hegel scholarship. The chapters are organized around themes that include the possibility of systematic philosophy, truth and objectivity, and the relation of Hegel’s thought to analytic and postmodern approaches to language. While there is considerable…
Simon Gros 