Category: Philosophy
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Hegel’s Idea of a Phenomenology of Spirit
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit has acquired a paradoxical reputation as one the most important and most impenetrable and inconsistent philosophical works. In Hegel’s Idea of a Phenomenology of Spirit, Michael N. Forster advances an original reading of the work. His approach differs from that of previous scholars in two crucial ways: he reads the work, first, as a whole—not piecemeal, […]
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German Idealism and the Problem of Knowledge: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel
The problem of knowledge in German Idealism has drawn increasing attention in recent years. This is the first attempt at a systematic critique that covers all four major figures, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. In examining the evolution of the German idealist discussion with respect to a broad array of concepts (epistemology, metaphysics, logic, dialectic, […]
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Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit
In the most influential chapter of his most important philosophical work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel makes the central and disarming assertions that “self-consciousness is desire itself” and that it attains its “satisfaction” only in another self-consciousness. Hegel on Self-Consciousness presents a groundbreaking new interpretation of these revolutionary claims, tracing their roots to Kant’s philosophy and demonstrating their […]
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Hegel’s Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness
Robert Pippin offers an interpretation of Hegel’s idealism, which focuses on Hegel’s appropriation and development of Kant’s theoretical project. Hegel is presented neither as a precritical metaphysician nor as a social theorist, but as a critical philosopher whose disagreements with Kant, especially on the issue of intuitions, enrich the idealist arguments against empiricism, realism and […]
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Hegel’s Philosophical Psychology
Hegel’s Philosophical Psychology draws attention to a largely overlooked piece of Hegel’s philosophy: his substantial and philosophically rich treatment of psychology at the end of the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit, which itself belongs to his main work, The Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences. This volume makes the case that Hegel’s approach to philosophy of mind […]
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Cohen und Rosenzweig: Ihre Auseinandersetzung mit dem deutschen Idealismus
Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) und Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929) werden zu Recht zu den wichtigsten jüdischen Denkern der Neuzeit gezählt. Sie sind auch erstrangige Kenner des klassischen deutschen Idealismus gewesen: Cohen hat die neukantianische Schule des kritischen Idealismus entscheidend mitgestaltet, und mit seinem Buch Hegel und der Staat veröffentlichte Rosenzweig ein Standardwerk, das an Aktualität bis heute […]
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Hegels Ästhetik als Theorie der Moderne
Dieses Buch es ist eine häufig übersehene These der Hegelschen Ästhetik, dass die künstlerische Arbeit ein Ort der Selbstverständigung einer Gesellschaft ist. Schon in seinem ersten Hauptwerk, der „Phänomenologie des Geistes“, sind Hegels Überlegungen zur Kunst eingebunden in den Versuch einer Bestimmung der Moderne, und auch in den später publizierten Texten Hegels sowie in seinen […]
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The Owl’s Flight: Hegel’s Legacy to Contemporary Philosophy
This book presents a unique rethinking of G. W. F. Hegel’s philosophy from unusual and controversial perspectives in order to liberate new energies from his philosophy. The role Hegel ascribes to women in the shaping of society and family, the reconstruction of his anthropological and psychological perspective, his approach to human nature, the relationship between […]
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Hegel, Logic and Speculation
This book offers new critical perspectives on the relationship between the notions of speculation, logic and reality in Hegel’s thought as basis for his philosophical account of nature, history, spirit and human experience. The systematic functions of logic and pure thought are explored in their concrete forms and processual progression from subjective spirit to philosophy […]
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Das Ende der Kunst als Anfang freier Kunst
Hegels These vom Ende der Kunst beinhaltet nicht die Todesanzeige für die Kunst. Im Gegenteil: Es handelt sich für Hegel um den Anfang der Entfaltung freier Kunst in der Moderne. Hegels These vom Ende der Kunst hat zusammen mit dem Topos vom Ende der Geschichte große Entrüstung ausgelöst. In beiden Fällen führte die unzulässige Identifikation […]
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Memory, History, Justice in Hegel
This book offers a new perspective on Hegel’s idea of history. While the philosophy of history is today one of the most discredited and certainly least studied parts of Hegel’s system, a “standard” interpretation of it continues to be cited in the debate among historians and philosophers – although it is cited, more often than […]
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The Philosophy of Hegel
Few philosophers can induce as much puzzlement among students as Hegel. His works are notoriously dense and make very few concessions for a readership unfamiliar with his systematic view of the world. Allen Speight’s introduction to Hegel’s philosophy takes a chronological perspective on the development of Hegel’s system. In this way, some of the most […]
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Kant’s Theory of Knowledge
While most interpretive studies of the Critique of Pure Reason are either too scholarly or too superficial to be of practical use to students, Hartnack has achieved a concise comprehensive analysis of the work in a lucid style that communicates the essence of extraordinarily complex arguments in the simplest possible way. An ideal companion to the First Critique, […]
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Dialectics, Politics, and the Contemporary Value of Hegel’s Practical Philosophy
This book explores and details the actuality (Aktualität) of Hegel’s social and political philosophy—its relevance, topicality, and contemporary validity. It asserts—against the assumptions of those in a wide range of traditions—that Hegel’s thought not only remains relevant to debates in current social and political theory, but is capable of productively enhancing and enriching those debates. […]
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Kant’s Cosmology: From the Pre-Critical System to the Antinomy of Pure Reason
This book provides a comprehensive account of Kant’s development from the 1755/56 metaphysics to the cosmological antinomy of 1781. With the Theory of the Heavens (1755) and the Physical Monadology (1756), the young Kant had presented an ambitious approach to physical cosmology based on an atomistic theory of matter, which contributed to the foundations of […]
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Hegel on Philosophy in History
In this volume honouring Robert Pippin, prominent philosophers such as John McDowell, Slavoj Žižek, Jonathan Lear, and Axel Honneth explore Hegel’s proposals concerning the historical character of philosophy. Hegelian doctrines discussed include the purported end of art, Hegel’s view of human history, including the history of philosophy as the history of freedom (or autonomy), and […]
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The Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo to Hegel
This book is a study of the development of ideas from the Renaissance to the opening of the nineteenth century. It is intellectual history in the largest sense, not confined to ideas in one or a few fields, but covering the whole range of Western intellectual activity during these most formative centuries. The important feature […]
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Early German Philosophy: Kant and His Predecessors
Early German Philosophy is a comprehensive history of German philosophy from its medieval beginnings to near the end of the eighteenth century. In exploring the spirit of German intellectual life and its distinctiveness from that of other countries, Beck devotes whole chapters to four great philosophers — Nicholas of Cusa, Leibniz, Lessing and Kant — […]
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Hegel’s Shorter Logic: An Introduction and Commentary
Since its publication in 1902, John Grier Hibben’s classic work on Hegel’s Encyclopedia Logic has been one of the clearest, most illuminating, most helpful, and most popular expositions of this rich and difficult text. Nevertheless, its language has needed to be modernized, its interpretations have needed to be revised and updated in view of recent […]
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Before and after Hegel: A Historical Introduction to Hegel’s Thought
In this engaging and accessible introduction to Hegel’s theory of knowledge, Tom Rockmore brings together the philosopher’s life, his thought, and his historical moment—without, however, reducing one to another. Laying out the philosophical tradition of German idealism, Rockmore concisely explicates the theories of Kant, Fichte, and Schelling, essential to an understanding of Hegel’s thought. He […]
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Hegel’s Idea of Philosophy: With a New Translation of Hegel’s Introduction to the History of Philosophy
In his Introduction to the History of Philosophy, Hegel undertook to say what philosophy is; that it can be said to have a history. He treated philosophy as an organic unity, a process, to which philosophers down through the ages have made contributions. Thus in Hegel’s view, the history of philosophy is inseparable from doing […]
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Kant’s Modal Metaphysics
What is possible and why? What is the difference between the merely possible and the actual? In Kant’s Modal Metaphysics Nicholas Stang examines Kant’s lifelong engagement with these questions and their role in his philosophical development. This is the first book to trace Kant’s theory of possibility all the way from the so-called ‘pre-Critical’ writings […]
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Subjectivity and Ethical Life
David James offers an innovative interpretation of a key element of Hegel’s political thought and seeks to identify the basic aims of Hegel’s philosophy of right through an analysis of his approach to subjectivity. He argues that the basic aim of Hegel’s philosophy of right is to accommodate subjectivity within a framework of universally valid […]
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Kant and the Culture of Enlightenment
Katerina Deligiorgi interprets Kant’s conception of enlightenment within the broader philosophical project of his critique of reason. Analyzing a broad range of Kant’s works, including his Critique of Pure Reason, the Critique of Judgment, his lectures on anthropology and logic, as well as his shorter essays, she identifies the theoretical and practical commitments that show […]
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Philosophical Legacies: Essays on the Thought of Kant, Hegel, and Their Contemporaries
Immanuel Kant, the Prussian thinker at the forefront of the German Enlightenment, decisively shaped what is arguably the central philosophical legacy of his era, a legacy of critical rationality and ethico-political self-determination. In Philosophical Legacies, Daniel O. Dahlstrom brings exceptional scholarship to an examination of the diversity and lasting influence not only of Kant but […]
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The Ethics of Authorship: Communication, Seduction, and Death in Hegel and Kierkegaard
This is a book about the ethics of authorship. Most directly, it explores different conceptualizations of the responsibilities of the author to the reader. But it also engages the question of what styles of authorship allow these responsibilities to be met. Style itself is an ethical issue, since the relation between the writing subject and […]
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On Hegel: The Sway of the Negative
Hegel is most famous for his view that conflicts between contrary positions are necessarily resolved. Whereas this optimism, inherent in modernity as such, has been challenged from Kierkegaard onward, many critics have misconstrued Hegel’s own intentions. Focusing on the Science of Logic, this transformative reading of Hegel on the one hand exposes the immense force […]
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Understanding Hegel’s Mature Critique of Kant
Hegel’s critique of Kant was a turning point in the history of philosophy: for the first time, the concrete, situated, and in certain senses “naturalistic” style pioneered by Hegel confronted the thin, universalistic, and argumentatively purified style of philosophy that had found its most rigorous expression in Kant. The controversy has hardly died away: it […]
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Hegel’s Grand Synthesis: A Study of Being, Thought, and History
This book offers the first genuinely systematic treatment of Hegel’s eschatology in the literature. It is an investigation into Hegel’s project to demonstrate the ultimate unity of thought and being (consciousness and reality, self and world). The author traces the project through Hegel’s epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of history. The grand synthesis creates a basic […]
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The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism
For philosophers of German idealism and early German romanticism, the imagination is central to issues ranging from hermeneutics to transcendental logic and from ethics to aesthetics. This volume of new essays brings together, for the first time, comprehensive and critical reflections on the significances of the imagination during this period, with essays on Kant and […]
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Logik Und Moderne: Hegels Wissenschaft Der Logik Als Paradigma Moderner Subjektivität
Die Wissenschaft der Logik kann ohne Zweifel als das Hauptwerk Hegels mit epochemachender Bedeutung gelten. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes machen deutlich, dass es sich um eine moderne Logik handelt, die gegen das Märchen vom sogenannten ‚nachmetaphysischen‘ Zeitalter eine die vormalige Metaphysik aufhebende neue Metaphysik bietet und damit eine revolutionäre Zäsur in der Philosophiegeschichte darstellt. Es wird nachgewiesen, dass Hegels Logik ein […]
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Nothing Absolute: German Idealism and the Question of Political Theology
Featuring scholars at the forefront of contemporary political theology and the study of German Idealism, Nothing Absolute explores the intersection of these two flourishing fields. Against traditional approaches that view German Idealism as a secularizing movement, this volume revisits it as the first fundamentally philosophical articulation of the political-theological problematic in the aftermath of the Enlightenment and […]
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Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza: A Study in German Idealism, 1801–1831
Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza explores the powerful continuing influence of Spinoza’s metaphysical thinking in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German philosophy. George di Giovanni examines the ways in which Hegel’s own metaphysics sought to meet the challenges posed by Spinoza’s monism, not by disproving monism, but by rendering it moot. In this, di […]
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Absolute Form: Modality, Individuality and the Principle of Philosophy in Kant and Hegel
Metabolic form inverts itself into content. Highlighting Hegel’s conceptual realism, Hoffmann focuses on an undervalued move in his dialectic: inversion (μεταβολή). From precursors in Kant the author validates the philosopher’s claim in not supplying a completeness proof for his table of categories: it’s easy! Hoffmann shows how his new approach works on Hegel’s central terms–paradigmatically […]
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An Ethical Modernity?: Hegel’s Concept of Ethical Life Today
An Ethical Modernity? investigates the relation between Hegel’s doctrine of ethical life (Sittlichkeit) and modernity as a historical category and a philosophical concept. In this collection of essays, the authors analyze Hegel’s theory of ethical life from various perspectives: social ontology, social practices and beliefs, theory of judgment, relations between Hegel’s theory of ethical life and […]
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Concepts of Normativity: Kant or Hegel?
The influence of Kant’s understanding of morality is too strong to be ignored. Hegel, however, fundamentally criticized Kant for offering merely a ‘formal’ model of normativity that cannot sufficiently comprehend human action as free. Instead, Hegel argues in his doctrine of ethical life (Sittlichkeit) that the embeddedness of the acting subject must be taken into […]
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Hegel’s Realm of Shadows: Logic as Metaphysics in “The Science of Logic”
Hegel frequently claimed that the heart of his entire system was a book widely regarded as among the most difficult in the history of philosophy, The Science of Logic. This is the book that presents his metaphysics, an enterprise that he insists can only be properly understood as a “logic,” or a “science of pure thinking.” Since […]
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The Sublime Object of Ideology (Second Edition)
The Sublime Object of Ideology was Žižek’s first book to have appeared in English in 1989, which instantly became an astonishing international success of global academic scholarship at that time, and later a classic of philosophical literature, an achievement which even he himself has only attempted to mimic and surpass since then, with more or less […]
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Kant and the Claims of Taste
Kant and the Claims of Taste, here published in a revised version, has become since its initial publication in 1979 the standard commentary on Kant’s aesthetic theory. The book offers a detailed account of Kant’s views on judgments of taste, aesthetic pleasure, imagination and many other topics. For this new edition, Paul Guyer has provided […]
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Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary
Henry E. Allison presents a comprehensive commentary on Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (1785). It differs from most recent commentaries in paying special attention to the structure of the work, the historical context in which it was written, and the views to which Kant was responding. Allison argues that, despite its relative brevity, the Groundwork is the […]
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Hegel: A Re-Examination
First published in 2002. Written in 1958, this book offers a re-examination of Hegel’s work, and is the volume I of a series of seven volumes on his work. Starting with a biography and the key ideas, the author offers his own explanations of ideas that are central in Hegel: being the notion of spirit, […]
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Can Politics Be Thought?
In Can Politics Be Thought?—published in French in 1985 and appearing here in English for the first time—Alain Badiou offers his most forceful and systematic analysis of the crisis of Marxism. Distinguishing politics as an active mode of thinking from the political as a domain of the State, Badiou argues for the continuation of Marxist politics. […]
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Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy
In Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy—published originally in Japanese and now available in four languages—Kojin Karatani questions the idealization of ancient Athens as the source of philosophy and democracy by placing the origins instead in Ionia, a set of Greek colonies located in present-day Turkey. Contrasting Athenian democracy with Ionian isonomia—a system based on non-rule […]
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Nation and Aesthetics: On Kant and Freud
Nation and Aesthetics is a unique attempt to examine the ambiguous nature of nationalism and nation by examining them through aesthetics. In this translation by Jonathan E. Abel, Darwin H. Tsen, and Hiroki Yoshikuni, Karatani grasps the modern social formation as a nexus of three different “modes of exchange”, namely capital-nation-state. Nation here plays the role […]
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The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy: A Systematic Reconstruction
Kant declared that philosophy began in 1781 with his Critique of Pure Reason. In 1806 Hegel announced that philosophy had now been completed. Eckart Förster examines the reasons behind these claims and assesses the steps that led in such a short time from Kant’s “beginning” to Hegel’s “end.” He concludes that, in an unexpected yet significant sense, […]
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Hegelian Metaphysics
The great German idealist philosopher G. W. F. Hegel has exerted an immense influence on the development of philosophy from the early 19th century to the present. But the metaphysical aspects of his thought are still under-appreciated. In a series of essays Robert Stern traces the development of a distinctively Hegelian approach to metaphysics and […]
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Transcendental Arguments and Scepticism: Answering the Question of Justification
Robert Stern investigates how scepticism can be countered by using transcendental arguments concerning the necessary conditions for the possibility of experience, language, or thought. He shows that the most damaging sceptical questions concern neither the certainty of our beliefs, nor the reliability of our belief-forming methods, but rather whether we can justify our beliefs in […]
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Understanding Moral Obligation: Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard
In many histories of modern ethics, Kant is supposed to have ushered in an anti-realist or constructivist turn by holding that unless we ourselves ‘author’ or lay down moral norms and values for ourselves, our autonomy as agents will be threatened. In this book, Robert Stern challenges the cogency of this ‘argument from autonomy’, and […]
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Negative Dialectics
The major work and Adorno’s culminating achievement. Negative Dialectics is a critique of the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger, and a visionary elaboration of the author’s own vision of dialectics. DOWNLOAD: (.pdf & .epub, multiple files, original German and two English translations)
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Plato: Complete Works
Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars—many commissioned especially for this volume—are presented here in the first single edition to include the entire surviving corpus of works attributed to Plato in antiquity. In his introductory essay, John Cooper explains the presentation of these works, discusses questions concerning the chronology of their composition, comments on the dialogue […]
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