Category: Philosophy
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Shapes of Freedom: Hegel’s Philosophy of World History in Theological Perspective
Peter C. Hodgson explores Hegel’s bold vision of history as the progress of the consciousness of freedom. Following an introductory chapter on the textual sources, the key categories, and the modes of writing history that Hegel distinguishes, Hodgson presents a new interpretation of Hegel’s conception of freedom. DOWNLOAD: (.pdf)
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Hegel on Beauty
While the current philosophical debate surrounding Hegel’s aesthetics focuses heavily on the philosopher’s controversial ‘end of art’ thesis, its participants rarely give attention to Hegel’s ideas on the nature of beauty and its relation to art. This study seeks to remedy this oversight by placing Hegel’s views on beauty front and center. Peters asks us […]
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Irony and Idealism: Rereading Schlegel, Hegel, and Kierkegaard
Irony and Idealism investigates the historical and conceptual structure of the development of a philosophically distinctive conception of irony in early- to mid-nineteenth century European philosophy. The principal figures treated are the romantic thinkers Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis, Hegel, and Kierkegaard. Fred Rush argues that the development of philosophical irony in this historical period is best […]
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Kierkegaard’s Relation to Hegel
This book, written by the eminent Kierkegaard scholar Niels Thulstrup, provides the first comprehensive treatment of this issue. Presented here in translation from the Danish, the work makes available materials that heretofore have been nearly inaccessible to most American scholars and to many Europeans as well. Originally published by Princeton University Press in 1980. DOWNLOAD: […]
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Hegel’s Phenomenology: The Dialectical Justification of Philosophy’s First Principles
Hegel’s philosophy depends on the answer to a fundamental question: why assume that the abstract structures and necessities of pure thought reveal anything at all about the varied and mutable realm of real life experience? In her study of Hegel’s Phenomenology, Ardis Collins examines the way Hegel interprets the Phenomenology of Spirit as an answer […]
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Schiller, Hegel, and Marx: State, Society, and the Aesthetic Ideal of Ancient Greece
Schiller, Hegel, and Marx looked back to ancient Greek culture, viewing it as the historical embodiment of certain ideals central to aesthetic theory. This volume investigates their viewpoints and how they use Greek culture as an ideal model for remaking the modern world, for overcoming alienation and estrangement. All three believed that the modern world […]
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Hegel and Modern Society
This rich study explores the elements of Hegel’s social and political thought that are most relevant to our society today. Combating the prevailing post-World War II stereotype of Hegel as a proto-fascist, Charles Taylor argues that Hegel aimed not to deny the rights of individuality but to synthesise them with the intrinsic good of community […]
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From Concept to Objectivity: Thinking Through Hegel’s Subjective Logic
This book uncovers the nature and authority of conceptual determination by critically thinking through neglected arguments in Hegel’s Science of Logic pivotal for understanding reason and its role in philosophy. Winfield clarifies the logical problems of presuppositionlessness and determinacy that prepare the way for conceiving the concept, examines how universality, particularity, and individuality are determined, […]
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Hegel and the Arts
That aesthetics is central to Hegel’s philosophical enterprise is not widely acknowledged, nor has his significant contribution to the discipline been truly appreciated. Some may be familiar with his theory of tragedy and his (supposed) doctrine of the “end of art,” but many philosophers and writers on art pay little or no attention to his […]
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Hegel, Husserl and the Phenomenology of Historical Worlds
Hegel famously described philosophy as ‘its own time apprehended in thoughts’, reflecting a desire that we increasingly experience, namely, the desire to understand our complex and fast-changing world. But how can we philosophically describe the world we live in? When Hegel attempted his systematic account of the historical world, he needed to conceive of history […]
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Hegel on the Proofs and the Personhood of God: Studies in Hegel’s Logic and Philosophy of Religion
This book integrates materials from several major sources into a sustained exposition of the proofs and the personhood of God, considering Hegel’s critique of Kant, focusing on and replying to Kant’s attack on the theological proofs, offering the first thorough analysis of Hegel’s Lectures on the Proofs of the Existence of God. Hegel’s analysis of […]
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Hegel’s Dialectical Logic
This clear, accessible account of Hegelian logic makes a case for its enormous seductiveness, its surprising presence in the collective consciousness, and the dangers associated therewith. Offering comprehensive coverage of Hegel’s important works, Bencivenga avoids getting bogged down in short-lived scholarly debates to provide a work of permanent significance and usefulness. DOWNLOAD: (.pdf)
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Notes on Dialectics: Hegel, Marx, Lenin
C.L.R. James is one of the leading Marxist interpreters of colonialism and anti-colonial struggle in the 20th century. Famous for his literary and cultural, as well as theoretical, writings, his thinking engaged with a vast range of issues including civil rights, race, class, socialism, cricket, and cultural production. Notes on Dialectics, first published in 1948, […]
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Hegel’s Introduction to the System: Encyclopaedia Phenomenology and Psychology
As an introduction to his own notoriously complex and challenging philosophy, Hegel recommended the sections on phenomenology and psychology from The Philosophy of Spirit, the third part of his Encyclopaedia of the Philosophic Sciences. These offered the best introduction to his philosophic system, whose main parts are Logic, Nature, and Sprit. Hegel’s Introduction to the System finally makes […]
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Hegel’s God: A Counterfeit Double?
Hegel is widely regarded as one of the major thinkers of the modern era, if not the entire tradition of philosophy. Hegel, like many philosophers, took seriously traditional philosophical perplexities about God, but unlike many modern philosophers he claimed to take the specific characteristic of Christianity into account in his philosophizing. This book presents a […]
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Hegel and Metaphysics: On Logic and Ontology in the System
The collective focus of the essays here presented consists of the attempt to overcome the deadlock between metaphysical and non- (or anti-) metaphysical Hegel interpretations. There is no doubt that Hegel rejects traditional and influential forms of metaphysical thought. There is also no doubt that he grounds his philosophical system on a metaphysical theory of […]
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Benjamin and Hegel: A Constellation in Metaphysics
These lectures, given in 2014 at the „Càtedra Walter Benjamin“, examine the philosophical relations between two of the greatest modern German philosophers, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Walter Benjamin. It is shown what close connections especially Benjamin’s Epistemo-Critical Prologue has to some fundamental aspects of Hegel’s metaphysics and epistemology. By illuminating a certain compatibility of […]
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Philosophy and Religion in German Idealism
This book contains the selected proceedings of a conference on Religion in German Idealism which took place in Nijmegen, Netherlands in January 2000. The conference was organized by the Centre of German Idealism, which co-ordinates the research on classical German philosophy in the Netherlands and in Belgium, with the support of the Dutch Organisation for […]
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F. C. Baur’s Synthesis of Böhme and Hegel: Redefining Christian Theology As a Gnostic Philosophy of Religion
In this book, Professor Simuț shows how Christian theology started to be understood as a Gnostic philosophy of religion in the thought of the 19th-century scholar F. C. Baur. Although Baur was seen traditionally as a theologian and biblical exegete, Simuț argues that he was in fact a philosopher of religion, and it was his […]
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The First German Philosopher: The Mysticism of Jakob Böhme as Interpreted by Hegel
This book investigates Hegel’s interpretation of the mystical philosophy of Jakob Böhme (1575-1624), considered in the context of the reception of Böhme in the 18th and 19th centuries, and of Hegel’s own understanding of mysticism as a philosophical approach. The three sections of this book present: the historical background of Hegel’s encounter with Böhme’s writings; […]
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From Hegel to Windelband: Historiography of Philosophy in the 19th Century
In the 19th century, the history of philosophy becomes the history of a particular science. Modern philosophical historiography is an ambivalent project. On the one hand, we find an affirmative concept of Bildung through tradition and historical insight; on the other, there arises a critical reflection on historical education in the light of an emerging […]
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Hegel’s Philosophy of the Historical Religions
No topic ever disquieted Hegel more than that of Religion. It haunted him, and he wrestled with it all during his life: from his brilliant youthful writings on spirit of Judaism and Christianity, up until the Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion of 1831. Of the ‘Determinate Religions’, Hegel wrote many profound and exhilarating philosophical […]
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Modern Individuality in Hegel’s Practical Philosophy
Modern individuality is the not-so-secret protagonist of Hegel’s practical philosophy. In the framework of spirit, Hegel presents some basic features of the individual’s way of life, lifeworld, self-interpreation, and self-determination, which can also be timely in shaping our own personal and social identities. In this book Erzsébet Rózsa aims to reconstruct Hegel’s theory of individuality […]
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Hegel’s Conception of the Determinate Negation
In this book Terje Sparby develops a comprehensive account of the three forms of the determinate negation in Hegel’s philosophy. Hegel’s actual use of the term may at first seem to be inconsistent, something that is reflected in the scholarship. However, on closer inspection, three forms of determinate negations can be discerned in Hegel’s texts: […]
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: A Propaedeutic
In this book Thomas Sören Hoffmann offers a comprehensive intellectual biography of the “master philosopher of German idealism,” the last great system builder of European philosophy. All the major themes of Hegel’s thought are worked through – logic and metaphysics; history and spirit; art and language; thought and nature; right, religion and science – and […]
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A Commentary to Hegel’s Science of Logic
Hegel is thought to be the pinnacle of German idealism and his work has undergone an enormous revival since 1975. Yet the work Hegel would have counted as the very center of his system, the Science of Logic, remains a largely uninterpreted work. Hegel himself cautioned that his philosophy could not be understood without first […]
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Miscellaneous Writings of G.W.F. Hegel
For some time now, the anglophone reader has had access to all four of G. W. F. Hegel’s major works in English translation: The Phenomenology of spirit, the Science of Logic, the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, and the Philosophy of Right. The increasing interest in Hegel’s philosophy in the English-speaking world over the past […]
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Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hegel on History
Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of History are regarded as the best introduction to the fundamental themes in his philosophy. In this accessible guidebook, Joseph McCarney introduces and assesses Hegel’s life and background to the Lectures, examines key elements of Hegel’s theory of history and its place within his philosophy as a whole, discusses the […]
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‘History Against Historicism’ by Slavoj Žižek
In the perception of its critics as well as of some of its partisans, so-called ‘deconstruction’ is often identified with the stance of radical historicism – as if to ‘deconstruct’ a certain notion equals demonstrating how its universality is secretly marked, overdetermined, by the concrete circumstances of its emergence and development, or how its purely […]
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Hegel and the History of Political Philosophy
This book relates Hegel to preceding and succeeding political philosophers. The Hegelian notion of the interdependence of political philosophy and its history is demonstrated by the links established between Hegel and his predecessors and successors. Hegel’s political theory is illuminated by essays showing its critical assimilation of Plato and Hobbes, and by studies reviewing subsequent […]
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Collected Writings of Georg W. F. Hegel on Philosophy of History and Its Related Secondary Literature
This is a digital collection of various primary and secondary literature on Hegel and his views on history. Note that this only includes the topic of “Philosophy of History” and not the “History of Philosophy”. If anyone has any recommendations for other works to include in this list, please let me know. Hegel’s writings in […]
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The Historical Pivot: Philosophy of History in Hegel, Schelling, and Hölderlin
This work undertakes to demonstrate an emergent form of philosophy of history in German Idealism and Early German Romanticism, particularly focusing on the works of Hegel, Schelling, and Hölderlin. For these thinkers, history comes into its own as a topic of philosophical investigating. Breaking with the static historicism of the Enlightenment, German Idealist and Early […]
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Hegel’s Systematic Contingency
This book shows that, far from incorporating everything into an all-consuming necessity, Hegel’s philosophy requires the novelty of unexpected contingencies to maintain its systematic pretensions. John Burbidge explores how Hegel applied this approach to chemistry, biology, psychology and history, and proposes implications on contemporary science. DOWNLOAD: (.pdf)
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Collected Theological Writings of Georg W. F. Hegel and Secondary Literature on his Religious Views
This is a digital collection of various primary and secondary literature on Hegel and his views on religion. If anyone has any recommendations for other works to include in this list, please let me know. Hegel’s writings in English: Secondary Literature:
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Religion, Rationality and Community: Sacred and secular in the thought of Hegel and his critics
This study is an attempt to examine the relationships between religious belief and the humanism of the Enlightenment in the philosophy of Hegel and of a group of thinkers who related to his thought in various ways during the 1840’s. It begins with a study of the ways in which Hegel attempted to evolve a […]
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Hegel und die Religion: Eine Untersuchung zum Verhältnis von Religion, Philosophie und Theologie in Hegels System
Vom Linkshegelianismus bis zur Kritischen Theorie ist auf eine Unstimmigkeit im Verhältnis zu Religion und Theologie hingewiesen worden, die der spekulativen Philosophie Hegels aufgrund ihres idealistischen Totalitätsanspruchs eigen sei. Hegels Philosophie stehe zwar für die Säkularisation theologischer Transzendenz, dennoch könne er sein philosophisches System nur unter Zuhilfenahme theologischer Kategorien formulieren, die doch eigentlich überwunden sein […]
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An Introduction to Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: The Issue of Religious Content in the Enlightenment and Romanticism
This book examines Hegel’s religious thinking by seeing it against the backdrop of the main religious trends in his own day, specifically the Enlightenment and Romanticism. A basic introduction to Hegel’s lectures, it provides an account of the criticism of religion by key Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire, Lessing, Hume, and Kant. This is followed […]
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New Perspectives on Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion
Hegel’s ideas about the nature of religion, its history, and its relation to philosophy have had great influence on his friends and foes alike. Relying on the new critical edition of Hegel’s separate lecture courses, the essays in this book provide new insights into Hegel’s ideas and challenge the way we think today. Crucial topics […]
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The Young Hegel and Religion
This edited collection of essays aims to acquaint the reader with different aspects and readings of Hegel’s Early Theological Writings. These writings consist of five essays plus some unfinished manuscripts, unpublished by Hegel himself during his lifetime and compiled by Herman Nohl as Hegels Theologische Jugendschriften in 1907. This is the first such edited collection […]
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion
A guide to Hegel’s philosophy of religion for the student who has minimal knowledge of Hegel’s system. The text begins with a clear summary of Hegel’s position in the early theological writings and provides a synopsis to his later Berlin lecture courses on the philosophy of religion. DOWNLOAD: (.pdf)
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Hegel and Mind: Rethinking Philosophical Psychology
Hegel and Mind draws upon Hegel’s theory of “Subjective Spirit” to address the key problems of philosophical psychology. Winfield rethinks Hegel’s account of the psyche, consciousness, and intelligence to resolve the dilemmas of mind-body dualism and reveal the psychological reality of reason. Winfield shows why mental activity is not reducible to computation and why machines […]
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Hegel’s Theory of the Subject
Hegelian philosophy is now enjoying an enormous renaissance in the English-speaking world. At the very centre of his work is the monumental Science of Logic. Hegel’s theory of subjectivity, which comprises the final third of the Science of Logic, has been comparatively neglected. This volume collects 15 essays on various aspects of Hegel’s theory of […]
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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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‘Resistance and the Right to Resistance’ by Costas Douzinas | London Critical Theory Summer School
Over the last decade, the world has entered a new epoch of resistance, from the Arab spring and to the acts of resistance and insurrection in Europe, the Americas and Asia. The pandemic led to a temporary pause but after the BLM events resistance has returned. Many governments are using the public health restrictions to […]
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‘Psychoanalysis in the Wake’ by Stephen Frosh | London Critical Theory Summer School 2021
Psychoanalysis has a long history of engagement with racism, often through theorising racism’s sources. It has nevertheless been criticised for its neglect of Black experience and its narrowness in relating to the social realities of racism as lived in the wider Black community. Very recently, there have been attempts by psychoanalytic institutes and practitioners to […]
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‘Thinking with Freud in a Time of Pandemic’ by Jacqueline Rose | London Critical Theory Summer School 2021
This talk centered on the question of what contribution psychoanalysis, starting with Freud, can make to our understanding of pandemic, and the tension it provokes between external danger and the perils of the unconscious mind. How far was Freud’s thought implicated in these questions? What happens if we reconsider Freud’s writing as a theory of […]
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