Category: German Idealism
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‘Science of Logic ’ by Georg W. F. Hegel
Science of Logic, first published between 1812 and 1816, is the work in which Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel outlined his vision of logic. It is Hegel’s second major work, and a notoriously difficult book. His prose is dense, and his subject matter is onerous. At the same time, Hegel understands his project in the Logic to be…
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The Idea of Hegel’s Science of Logic
Although Hegel considered Science of Logic essential to his philosophy, it has received scant commentary compared with the other three books he published in his lifetime. Here philosopher Stanley Rosen rescues the Science of Logic from obscurity, arguing that its neglect is responsible for contemporary philosophy’s fracture into many different and opposed schools of thought. Through deep and careful…
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‘Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right’ by Karl Marx
This book is a complete translation of Marx’s critical commentary on paragraphs 261–313 of Hegel’s major work in political theory. In this text Marx subjects Hegel’s doctrine on the internal constitution of the state to a lengthy analysis. It was Marx’s first attempt to expose and criticize Hegel’s philosophy in general and his political philosophy…
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‘Outlines of the Philosophy of Right’ by Georg W. F. Hegel
Hegel’s Outlines of the Philosophy of Right is one of the greatest works of moral, social, and political philosophy. It contains significant ideas on justice, moral responsibility, family life, economic activity, and the political structure of the state—all matters of profound interest to us today. Hegel shows that genuine human freedom does not consist in doing whatever…
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Hegel, Literature and the Problem of Agency
Allen Speight argues that behind Hegel’s extraordinary appeal to literature in the Phenomenology of Spirit lies a philosophical project concerned with understanding human agency in the modern world. It shows that Hegel looked to three literary genres–tragedy, comedy, and the romantic novel–as offering privileged access to three moments of human agency: retrospectivity, theatricality, and forgiveness.…
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‘Hegel’ by Charles Taylor
This is a major and comprehensive study of the philosophy of Hegel, his place in the history of ideas, and his continuing relevance and importance. Professor Taylor relates Hegel to the earlier history of philosophy and, more particularly, to the central intellectual and spiritual issues of his own time. He engages with Hegel sympathetically, on…
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Hegel and Christian Theology: A Reading of the Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion
This is an analysis of the interpretation of Christian theology that is found in G. W. F. Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion. Hodgson argues that these lectures are among the most valuable resources from the nineteenth century for theology as it faces the challenges of modernity and postmodernity. Peter C. Hodgson engages the…
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‘Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion’ by Georg W. F. Hegel
From the complete three-volume critical edition of Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, this one volume edition extracts the full text and footnotes of the 1827 lectures, making the work available in a convenient form for study. Of the lectures that can be fully reconstructed, those of 1827 are the clearest, the maturest in…
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Logic and the Limits of Philosophy in Kant and Hegel
This text examines the boundary between philosophy and formal logic in Kant and Hegel. It takes up the particular category of ‘quantity’ as a point around which to explore Kant’s and Hegel’s larger architectonic concerns. Analysis of the relation in Kant between quantity in formal logic and in his transcendental logic reveals two complementary but…
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Hegel and Marx after the Fall of Communism
The collapse of the Soviet Empire led many to think that communism and perhaps socialism were no longer relevant to the modern world. Hegel and Marx After the Fall of Communism presents a balanced discussion of the validity of the arguments of two of the most important political philosophers of all time, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and…
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Inventing the Market: Smith, Hegel, and Political Theory
Inventing the Market: Smith, Hegel, and Political Theory analyses the constructions of the market in the thought of Adam Smith and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and discusses their relevance for contemporary political philosophy. Combining the history of ideas with systematic analysis, it contrasts Smith’s view of the market as a benevolently designed ‘contrivance of nature’ with…
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The Hegel Myths and Legends
For many years, scholars in German idealism have known that a number of the views of Hegel rife in the Anglo-Saxon world are highly inaccurate. The essays collected in The Hegel Myths and Legends disabuse students and non-specialists of these misconceptions by exposing the myths for what they are. Jon Stewart has selected a set…
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Knowing and History: Appropriations of Hegel in Twentieth-Century France
Knowing and History charts the development of Hegelian philosophy of history in France from the 1930s through the postwar period, and critically assesses its significance for an understanding of our cultural present and of the possibilities for making meaning out of change over time. Michael Roth provides detailed analyses of the works of three of…
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The Advent of Freedom: The Presence of the Future in Hegel’s Logic
The Advent of Freedom analyzes two of the key concepts in Hegel’s articulation of a logic of freedom. These key concepts are time and possibility. His Science of Logic shows that possibility is constitutive of actuality, without ever being exhausted by actuality. The Logic and other writings present a parallel argument that Hegel himself did…
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G. W. F. Hegel: Key Concepts
The thought of G. W. F. Hegel (1770 -1831) has had a deep and lasting influence on a wide range of philosophical, political, religious, aesthetic, cultural and scientific movements. But, despite the far-reaching importance of Hegel’s thought, there is often a great deal of confusion about what he actually said or believed. G. W. F.…
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Marxism and Hegel
The interpretation of Hegel has been a focal point of philosophical controversy ever since the beginning of the twentieth century, both among Marxists and in the major European philosophical schools. Yet despite wide differences of emphasis most interpretations of Hegel share important similarities. They link his idea of Reason to the revolutionary and rationalist tradition…
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Hegel’s Science of Logic: A Critical Rethinking in Thirty Lectures
This text provides a comprehensive guide to one of the most important and challenging works of modern philosophy. The systematic complexity of Hegel’s radical project in the Science of Logic prevents many from understanding and appreciating its value. By independently and critically working through Hegel’s argument, this book offers an enlightening aid for study and…
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Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Rethinking in Seventeen Lectures
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Rethinking in Seventeen Lectures provides a clear and philosophically engaging investigation of Hegel’s first masterpiece, perhaps the most revolutionary work of modern philosophy. The book guides the reader on an intellectual adventure that takes up Hegel’s revolutionary strategy of paving the way for doing philosophy without presuppositions by first…
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Marx’s Discourse with Hegel
The product of eight years of research, Levine’s study divides Marx’s relation to Hegel into two provinces; areas of discontinuity and continuity. Marx’s discontinuity from Hegel arose from his negation of the Hegelian System, the belief that Spirit was the predicative force in the universe. Marx’s continuity with Hegel concerns Hegelian methodology, or the structural…
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Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination
In this fascinating book, Jennifer Ann Bates examines shapes of self-consciousness and their roles in the tricky interface between reality and drama. Shakespeare’s plots and characters are used to shed light on Hegelian dialectic, and Hegel’s philosophical works on art and politics are used to shed light on Shakespeare’s dramas. Bates focuses on moral imagination…
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The Philosophy of Hegel: A Systematic Exposition
A clear, accessible and systematic working through of Hegel’s most important works, including The Philosophy of History, The Philosophy of Right and The Science of Logic. DOWNLOAD: (.pdf)
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Hegel’s Speculative Good Friday: The Death of God in Philosophical Perspective
In this book Deland S. Anderson traces the origin of the idea, “God is dead,” in the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel. Focusing on issues of language, life, and learning, Anderson presents an integrated perspective on the death of God in Hegel’s philosophy as it emerged in the early years at Jena. He argues that Hegel’s…
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Hegel and the Infinite: Religion, Politics, and Dialectic
Catherine Malabou, Antonio Negri, John D. Caputo, Bruno Bosteels, Mark C. Taylor, and Slavoj Žižek join seven others―including William Desmond, Katrin Pahl, Adrian Johnston, Edith Wyschogrod, and Thomas A. Lewis―to apply Hegel’s thought to twenty-first-century philosophy, politics, and religion. Doing away with claims that the evolution of thought and history is at an end, these…
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The State and Civil Society: Studies in Hegel’s Political Philosophy
The state and civil society were first distinguished by Hegel in The Philosophy of Right as two stages in the dialectical development from the family to the nation. The distinction has remained perhaps the most vital of Hegel’s discoveries in political philosophy, though its importance is not confined to the interpretation of Hegel’s own views.…
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Mythology, Madness, and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism
Mythology, Madness and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism explores some long neglected but crucial themes in German idealism. Markus Gabriel, one of the most exciting young voices in contemporary philosophy, and Slavoj Žižek, the celebrated contemporary philosopher and cultural critic, show how these themes impact on the problematic relations between being and appearance, reflection and the…
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Hegel’s Rational Religion
Hegel’s Rational Religion is a systematic treatment of the relation of religion and philosophy in Hegel’s philosophy. Its focal point is an explication and development of Hegel’s claim that speculative philosophy and Christianity, or what Hegel terms “the consummate religion,” are one in content though different in form. This study proceeds from a careful consideration…
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Logic and System: A Study of the Transition from “Vorstellung” to Thought in the Philosophy of Hegel
This book will examine one of the oldest problems in understanding what Hegel was trying to do. What is the place of the Logic in the Hegelian system? That is, how did Hegel see the relation between “pure thought” and its origins or applications in our many forms of experience? A novel approach to this…
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The Ubiquity of the Finite: Hegel, Heidegger, and the Entitlements of Philosophy
What are the assumptions and tasks hidden in contemporary calls to “overcome” the metaphysical tradition? Reflecting upon the internal contradictions of the notions of “tradition” and “finiteness,” Dennis J. Schmidt offers novel insights into how philosophy must relate to its traditions if it is to retain a vital sense of the plurality of “edges” that…
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Hegel: From Foundation to System
One of the guiding thoughts throughout this work is that G. W. F. Hegel is the philosopher of the modern age, that subsequent philosophers, whether or not they have read his works, must take their stand in relation to Hegel. The purpose is not only to present Hegel, but to show that his influence has…
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Hegel’s Laws: The Legitimacy of a Modern Legal Order
Hegel’s Laws serves as an accessible introduction to Hegel’s ideas on the nature of law. In this book, William Conklin examines whether state-centric domestic and international laws are binding upon autonomous individuals. The author also explores why Hegel assumes that this arrangement is more civilized than living in a stateless culture. The book takes the reader…
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In the Shadow of Hegel: Complementarity, History, and the Unconscious
In the Shadow of Hegel develops a new understanding of history operating against, but in the shadow of, the Hegelian logic of history as the unfolding of the Absolutely Self-Conscious Spirit—Geist. In this context Plotnitsky examines Hegel’s significance for Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Bataille, and, especially, Derrida, and exposes both the proximities and distances of the…
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Reality, Freedom, and God
This book shows that the repeated announcements of the death of Hegel’s philosophical system have been premature. Hegel’s Philosophy of Freedom, Reality, and God brings to light accomplishments for which Hegel is seldom given credit: unique arguments for the reality of freedom, for the reality of knowledge, for the irrationality of egoism, and for the…
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An Introduction to Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion
For Hegel, thought is not philosophical if it is not also religious. Both religion and philosophy have a common object and share the same content, for both are concerned with the inherent unity of all things. Hegel’s doctrine of God provides the means for understanding this fundamental relationship. Although Hegel stated that God is absolute…
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Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution
This book explores Hegel’s response to the French Revolutionary Terror and its impact on Germany. Like many of his contemporaries, Hegel was struck by the seeming parallel between the political upheaval in France and the upheaval in German philosophy inaugurated by the Protestant Reformation and brought to a climax by German Idealism. Many thinkers reasoned…
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Hegel and Resistance: History, Politics and Dialectics
The concept of resistance has always been central to the reception of Hegel’s philosophy. The prevalent image of Hegel’s system, which continues to influence the scholarship to this day, is that of an absolutist, monist metaphysics which overcomes all resistance, sublating or assimilating all differences into a single organic ‘Whole’. For that reason, the reception…
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Hegel’s Ethical Thought
This important study offers a powerful exposition of the ethical theory underlying Hegel’s philosophy of society, politics, and history. Wood shows how Hegel applies his theory to such topics as human rights, the justification of legal punishment, criteria of moral responsibility, and the authority of individual conscience. The book includes a critical discussion of Hegel’s…
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Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Hegel only published five books in his lifetime, and among them the Phenomenology of Spirit emerges as the most important but also perhaps the most difficult and complex. In this book Ludwig Siep follows the path from Hegel’s early writings on religion, love and spirit to the milestones of his ‘Jena period’. He shows how…
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Hegel and Capitalism
Bringing together scholars from varying perspectives, this book examines the value of Hegel’s thought for understanding and assessing capitalism, both as encountered by Hegel himself and in forms it takes today. The contributors consider Hegel’s complex and multifaceted appraisal of modern market societies, which he understands variously as a condition for a proper account of…
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Hegel and the Future of Systematic Philosophy
Hegel and the Future of Systematic Philosophy critically rehabilitates Hegel’s post-enlightenment project of doing systematic philosophy without foundations, showing how it can solve the dilemmas afflicting contemporary analytic and post-modern thought alike. Thinking through and building upon Hegel’s arguments, the book tackles the most important issues driving current debates in logic, epistemology, metaphysics, the philosophies…
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Hegel (Classic Thinkers)
This new book provides readers with an accessible introduction to Hegel’s thought, offering a lucid and highly readable account of his Phenomenology of Spirit, Science of Logic, Philosophy of Nature, Philosophy of History, and Philosophy of Right. It provides a cogent and careful analysis of Hegel’s main arguments, considers critical responses, evaluates competing interpretations, and…
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Reading Hegel
A spirit is haunting contemporary thought – the spirit of Hegel. All the powers of academia have entered into a holy alliance to exorcize this spirit: Vitalists and Eschatologists, Transcendental Pragmatists and Speculative Realists, Historical Materialists and even ‘liberal Hegelians’. Which of these groups has not been denounced as metaphysically Hegelian by its opponents? And…
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Phenomenology of Black Spirit
Ryan Johnson and Biko Mandela Gray study the relationship between Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and Black Thought from Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis. This staging of an elongated dialectical parallelism between Hegel’s classic text and major 19th-20th-century Black thinkers explodes the western canon of philosophy. Johnson and Mandela Gray show that Hegel’s abstract dialectic is…
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The Conflict of the Faculties / Der Streit der Fakultäten
It is in the interest of the totalitarian state that subjects not think for themselves, much less confer about their thinking. Writing under the hostile watch of the Prussian censorship, Immanuel Kant dared to argue the need for open argument, in the university if nowhere else. In this heroic criticism of repression, first published in…
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After Hegel: German Philosophy, 1840-1900
Histories of German philosophy in the nineteenth century typically focus on its first half-when Hegel, idealism, and Romanticism dominated. By contrast, the remainder of the century, after Hegel’s death, has been relatively neglected because it has been seen as a period of stagnation and decline. Frederick Beiser on the contrary argues that the second half…
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German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism, 1781-1801
One of the very few accounts in English of German idealism, this ambitious work advances and revises our understanding of both the history and the thought of the classical period of German philosophy. As he traces the structure and evolution of idealism as a doctrine, Frederick Beiser exposes a strong objective, or realist, strain running…
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German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism
In the second half of the eighteenth century, German philosophy dominated European philosophy, changing the way Europeans and people all over the world conceived of themselves and thought about nature, religion, human history, politics, and the structure of the human mind. In this rich and wide-ranging book, Terry Pinkard interweaves the story of “Germany”—changing during…
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‘Phenomenology of Spirit’ by Georg W. F. Hegel
Perhaps one of the most revolutionary works of philosophy ever presented, The Phenomenology of Spirit is Hegel’s 1807 work that is in numerous ways extraordinary. It begins with a Preface, created after the rest of the manuscript was completed, that explains the core of his method and what sets it apart from any preceding philosophy. The Introduction,…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Werke in 20 Bänden
The twenty-volume edition of over 11,000 pages, published by Eva Moldenhauer and Karl Markus Michel, is the easily accessible and inexpensive edition of the writings of these classics in the history of philosophy. From the early writings on the phenomenology of the mind and the encyclopedia to the lectures on the history of philosophy, it…
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The Logic of Desire: An Introduction to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Peter Kalkavage’s The Logic of Desire guides the reader through Hegel’s great work. Given the book’s legendary difficulty, one may well ask, “Why even try to read the Phenomenology?” In his preface, Kalkavage explains why he thinks a reader should try: There is much to commend the study of Hegel: his attentiveness to the deepest, most fundamental questions…
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Hegel: A Biography
One of the founders of modern philosophical thought Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) has gained the reputation of being one of the most abstruse and impenetrable of thinkers. This first major biography of Hegel in English offers not only a complete, up-to-date account of the life, but also an overview of the key philosophical concepts…
Simon Gros 