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  • Hegel and the Spirit: Philosophy as Pneumatology

    Hegel and the Spirit explores the meaning of Hegel’s grand philosophical category, the category of Geist, by way of what Alan Olson terms a pneumatological thesis. Hegel’s philosophy of spirit, according to Olson, is a speculative pneumatology that completes what Adolf von Harnack once called the “orphan doctrine” in Christian theology — the doctrine of the Holy Spirit.…

    S. Gros

    May 5, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • Art and Logic in Hegel’s Philosophy

    This volume incorporates papers presented at the 1974 meeting of the Society, which was held at Georgetown University. The present volume makes available scholarly work on two of the most creative parts of Hegel’s philosophy, his Aesthetics and his Logic. DOWNLOAD: (.pdf)

    S. Gros

    May 5, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • The Speculative Remark: (One of Hegel’s Bons Mots)

    This work, by one of the most innovative and challenging of contemporary thinkers, pivots on a Remark added by Hegel in 1831 to the second edition of his Science of Logic. As a model of close reading applied both to philosophical texts and the making of philosophical systems, The Speculative Remark played a significant role in transforming the practice of…

    S. Gros

    May 5, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • Hegel was right: The Myth of the Empirical Sciences

    In Hegel was right the author demonstrates that the tradition of the grand philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant and Hegel) made the gift of some key theses of crucial importance for the humanity. These theses widely resist the positivism and skepticism attack. The demonstrative key consists in making realize that the key concepts have not empirical…

    S. Gros

    May 5, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • Spirit: Chapter Six of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit

    This annotated translation of Chapter Six of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, the joint product of a group of scholars that included H. S. Harris, George di Giovanni, John W. Burbidge, and Kenneth Schmitz, represents an advance in accuracy and fluency on previous translations into English of this core chapter of the Phenomenology. Its notes and commentary…

    S. Gros

    May 5, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • Hegel, Freedom, and Modernity

    This book studies the intersection of Hegel’s political theory as developed in the Philosophy of Right with his philosophy of religion and his dialectical, holistic theory of knowledge. It explores both the methodological and theological dimensions of Hegel’s politics by placing him in dialogue with such traditions as Hinduism, the Protestant Reformation, and the contemporary…

    S. Gros

    May 4, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • History and Truth in Hegel’s Phenomenology

    This detailed interpretation of Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit” seeks to show that the unity of this classic work may be found in the integration of its transcendental and sociological-historical themes. Merold Westphal argues that the key to this unity lies in Hegel’s radical discovery that transcendental subjectivity has a social history and that absolute knowledge…

    S. Gros

    May 4, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative: Freud, Hegel, Lacan, Spitz, and Sophocles

    Finalist for the 2006 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship presented by the Section on Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology of the Canadian Psychological Association It is often the case that painful truths emerge first in the form of denial; one needs to create distance from what is painful. In Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the…

    S. Gros

    May 4, 2023
    Critical Theory, German Idealism, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Theory
  • Hegel on Art: An Interpretation of Hegel’s Aesthetics

    Professor Kaminsky’s lucid exposition is, surprisingly, the first attempt in English to deal extensively and critically with Hegel’s views on art, as outlined in his difficult volumes on that subject. Hegel on Art thus performs a needed service for those interested in either the philosophy or the history of the fine arts. Hegel’s idealistic metaphysics…

    S. Gros

    May 4, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • The Disjunctive Logic of the World: Thinking Global Civil Society with Hegel

    There is today a cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural recognition of the need to reconceptualize the complexities of the global reality. In this study the authors present the view that a rethinking of Hegel’s concept of Civil Society has the potential to meet this need. They argue that the standard interpretations of Hegel are largely misplaced and…

    S. Gros

    May 4, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • Hegel’s Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art, Volume II

    This is the second of two volumes of the only English edition of Hegel’s Aesthetics, the work in which he gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. The substantial Introduction is his best exposition of his general philosophy of art. In Part I he considers the general nature of art as a spiritual…

    S. Gros

    May 2, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • Hegel’s Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art, Volume I

    This is the first of two volumes of the only English edition of Hegel’s Aesthetics, the work in which he gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. The substantial Introduction is his best exposition of his general philosophy of art. In Part I he considers the general nature of art as a spiritual experience,…

    S. Gros

    May 2, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • The Cambridge Companion to Hegel

    Few thinkers are more controversial in the history of philosophy than Hegel. He has been dismissed as a charlatan and obscurantist, but also praised as one of the greatest thinkers in modern philosophy. No one interested in philosophy can afford to ignore him. This volume considers all the major aspects of Hegel’s work: epistemology, logic,…

    S. Gros

    May 2, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • Hegel’s Dialectic: The Explanation of Possibility

    Hegel is one of the most often cited and least read of all major philosophers. He is alternately regarded as the best and the worst that philosophy has produced. Nobody, however, disputes his influence. In Hegel’s Dialectic, Terry Pinkard offers a new interpretation of Hegel’s program that assesses his conception of the role of philosophy,…

    S. Gros

    May 2, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • The Vitality of Contradiction: Hegel, Politics, and the Dialectic of Liberal-Capitalism

    In The Vitality of Contradiction, Bruce Gilbert provides an exposition of Hegel’s political philosophy to establish not only that societies fail because of their contradictions, but also how the unsurpassable oppositions of social life cultivate freedom. He moves beyond Hegel’s works to consider the limits of liberal-capitalism and the contemporary social movements around the world…

    S. Gros

    May 2, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • Hegel’s Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences: A Critical Guide

    Hegel regarded his Enyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences as the work which most fully presented the scope of his philosophical system and its method. It is somewhat surprising, therefore, that scholars regularly accord it only a secondary status. This Critical Guide seeks to change that, with sixteen newly-written essays from an international group of leading…

    S. Gros

    May 2, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • Recent Philosophy: Hegel to the Present | 2 Volumes

    The philosophical unity so visible in Europe at the time of the Reformation and still perceptible during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries began to disintegrate in the early years of the nineteenth century. The accession of new languages to the status of scientific languages, the rise of nationalistically minded generations of philosophers, the progressive multiplication…

    S. Gros

    May 1, 2023
    Critical Theory, Philosophy, Theory
  • Hegel’s Encyclopedic System

    This book discusses the most comprehensive of Hegel’s works: his long-neglected Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline. It contains original essays by internationally renowned and emerging voices in Hegel scholarship. Their contributions elucidate fundamental aspects of Hegel’s encyclopedic system with an eye to its contemporary relevance. The book thus addresses system-level claims about Hegel’s…

    S. Gros

    May 1, 2023
    Critical Theory, German Idealism, Philosophy, Theory
  • Hegel Short Course: A Primer for Marxists

    Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels are widely regarded as titans of philosophy, having influenced thinkers from every country, enemies and allies alike. Equally respected is Georg W. F. Hegel. The opposition between Hegel and Marx, however, is taken for granted. The logical development of Marxism out of Hegelian thought is underappreciated. Also underappreciated is the…

    S. Gros

    May 1, 2023
    Critical Theory, German Idealism, Marxism, Philosophy, Theory, Western Marxism
  • Metaphysics as Christology: An Odyssey of the Self from Kant and Hegel to Steiner

    In Metaphysics as Christology, Jonael Schickler presents a major contribution to both philosophy and theology. First he examines the key philosophical problems with which Kant and Hegel grappled, and finds in the work of Rudolf Steiner the essence of a solution to them; he claims that Steiner returned to Hegel’s philosophical problems but was better…

    S. Gros

    May 1, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • German Stoicisms: From Hegel to Sloterdijk

    Stoicism has had a diverse reception in German philosophy. This is the first interpretive study of shared themes and dialogues between late nineteenth-century and twentieth-century experts on classical antiquity and philosophers. Assessing how modern philosophers have incorporated ancient resources with the context of German philosophy, chapters in this volume are devoted to philosophical giants such…

    S. Gros

    May 1, 2023
    Critical Theory, Philosophy, Theory
  • The Introduction to Hegel’s Philosophy of Fine Art

    Originally published in 1905, Bosanquet’s translation of Hegel’s Philosophy of Fine Art brings Hegel’s commentary and analysis of what constitutes beauty and fine art to an English audience as well as presenting his own viewpoints on the work and what is at the heart of true philosophical theory. This title will be of interest to…

    S. Gros

    May 1, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • From Hegel to Madonna: Towards a General Economy of “Commodity Fetishism”

    From Hegel to Madonna presents a genealogical survey of the discourses of negation and affirmation associated with the work of Hegel, Adorno, Deleuze, and Guattari; then, rotating from the philosophical to the political-economic axis, turns to the problem of a general economy of “commodity-fetishism. ” Drawing on the work of Marx and Freud, Miklitsch mobilizes…

    S. Gros

    May 1, 2023
    Critical Theory, Philosophy, Theory
  • Post-Secularism, Realism and Utopia: Transcendence and Immanence from Hegel to Bloch

    This book explores the contribution to recent developments in post-secularism, philosophical realism and utopianism made by key thinkers in the Hegelian tradition. It challenges dominant assumptions about what the relationship between religion and our so-called “secular age” should be that have sought to reduce or even eliminate religiosity from the public sphere. It draws upon…

    S. Gros

    May 1, 2023
    Critical Theory, German Idealism, Philosophy, Theory
  • The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche

    Henrik Ibsen’s plays have long beguiled philosophically-oriented readers. From Nietzsche to Adorno to Cavell, philosophers have drawn inspiration from Ibsen. But what of Ibsen’s own philosophical orientation? As part of larger European movements to reinvent drama, Ibsen and fellow playwrights grappled with contemporary philosophy. Philosophy of drama found a central place with figures such as…

    S. Gros

    May 1, 2023
    Philosophy
  • Hegel’s Energy: A Reading of the Phenomenology of Spirit

    Hegel’s The Phenomenology of Spirit has been one of the most important works of philosophy since the nineteenth century, while the question of energy has been crucial to life in the twenty-first century. In this book, Michael Marder integrates the two, narrating a story about the trials and tribulations of energy embedded in Hegel’s dialectics. Through an original…

    S. Gros

    May 1, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, Hegel, and the Present

    Few twenty-first century academics take seriously mysticism’s claim that we have direct knowledge of a higher or more “inner” reality or God. But Philosophical Mysticism argues that such leading philosophers of earlier epochs as Plato, G. W. F. Hegel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Alfred North Whitehead were, in fact, all philosophical mystics. This book discusses major versions of…

    S. Gros

    May 1, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • Hegel and Legal Theory

    The first collection of essays directed towards jurisprudence with a Hegelian theme. The editors are committed to the idea that Hegel is the future source of great energy and insight within the legal academy. Table of Contents Part I: Being, Person, Community and the Ethical Foundation of Law1. The Repressed Intersubjectivity in Hegel’s Philosophy of…

    S. Gros

    May 1, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • Hegel and the Foundations of Literary Theory

    Do the various forms of literary theory – deconstruction, Marxism, new historicism, feminism, post-colonialism, and cultural/digital studies – have anything in common? If so, what are the fundamental principles of theory? What is its ideological orientation? Can it still be of use to us in understanding basic intellectual and ethical dilemmas of our time? These…

    S. Gros

    April 30, 2023
    Critical Theory, German Idealism, Philosophy, Theory
  • Hegel, Marx and the Contemporary World

    This book is the result of a three-day conference held in April 2014 at the University of Montreal, Canada, discussing the relevance of the work of Hegel and Marx in today’s world, particularly with regard to the ecological, economic, political and anthropological crisis facing humanity. Accordingly, the book an exploration of the specific nature of…

    S. Gros

    April 30, 2023
    Critical Theory, Marxism, Philosophy, Theory, Western Marxism
  • Translation and Hegel’s Philosophy

    This volume engages with translations of philosophy as complex, socially structured narratives bound by emotional, political and philosophical connections, exploring these dynamics at work in A.V. Miller’s Hegel translations and retranslations published between 1969 and 1986. The book contextualises Miller’s lifelong commitment to Hegel and builds on this narrative to lay the foundations for its…

    S. Gros

    April 30, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • Inwardness and Existence: Subjectivity in/and Hegel, Heidegger, Marx, and Freud

    To attain an adequate theory of subject we need to achieve a principled dialectical integration of four contexts of thought that are usually opposed: Hegelian phenomenology, existentialism, marxism, and psychoanalysis. Such a “synthesis” faces a number of interpretive problems, and the reader may well wonder how such a relationship is possible since these movements seem…

    S. Gros

    April 30, 2023
    Critical Theory, Philosophy, Theory
  • Hegel’s Retreat from Eleusis: Studies in Political Thought

    Concentrating on Hegel’s political philosophy, George Armstrong Kelly pursues three lines of inquiry. The first is the broad question of the connection of philosophy, politics, and history within Hegel’s system of thought. Second, the author explores Hegel’s relationship with his surrounding political culture and his rejection of aestheticism for the higher goal of politics. Finally,…

    S. Gros

    April 30, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • Simply Hegel

    Born in Stuttgart, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) attended the Gymnasium Illustre and, at the age of 18, entered the Tübingen Seminary, from which he received his theological certificate in 1793. His early writings, composed while he was serving as a family tutor in Bern and Frankfurt, dealt with religious subjects. From 1801 until his untimely death…

    S. Gros

    April 30, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • Philosophy and Revolution: From Hegel to Sartre, and from Marx to Mao

    Few thought systems have been as distorted and sometimes misconstrued as those of Marx and Hegel. Philosophy and Revolution, presented here in a new edition, attempts to save Marx from interpretations which restrict the revolutionary significance of the philosophy behind his theory. Developing her breakthrough on Hegel’s Absolute Idea, Raya Dunayevskaya, who died in the June…

    S. Gros

    April 30, 2023
    Critical Theory, German Idealism, Marxism, Philosophy, Theory
  • ‘ Speculative Philosophy’ by Donald Phillip Verene

    In this original and illuminating work, the reader is invited to approach philosophy as an activity that can instruct, delight, and move. On this view, philosophy can be seen as a key to human education, a mastery of humane letters, and a part of the republic of the liberal arts. Embracing this approach to philosophy,…

    S. Gros

    April 29, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy

    This fully revised and updated edition of Nicholas Bunnin and E.P. Tsui-James’ popular introductory philosophy textbook brings together specially-commissioned chapters from a prestigious team of scholars writing on each of the key areas, figures and movements in philosophy. Table of Contents Contemporary Philosophy in the United States by John R. SearleContemporary Philosophy: A Second by…

    S. Gros

    April 29, 2023
    Philosophy
  • Between Tradition and Revolution: The Hegelian Transformation of Political Philosophy

    The studies in this 1996 volume consider Hegel’s mature views on ethics and politics and relate them to the classical tradition of Western political thought. Manfred Tiedel brings to the analysis of Hegel’s views a high level of scholarship and a thorough knowledge of earlier thinkers. Concentrating on the Philosophy of Right, he reveals connections…

    S. Gros

    April 29, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • Freedom and Independence: A Study of the Political Ideas of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Mind

    Originally published in 1976, this book was written specifically to guide students of political theory who want to understand Hegel’s political ideas as they appear in The Phenomenology of Mind. Professor Shklar’s commentary uses plain language and English translations of references wherever possible. The core of Hegel’s argument is that freedom is the identity of…

    S. Gros

    April 29, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • Hegel’s Political Philosophy: Problems and Perspectives

    Originally published in 1971, this volume was created to commemorate the bicentenary of Hegel’s birth in 1770. Thirteen essays are included from experts with diverse approaches, concentrating on the central issues of Hegel’s political philosophy, and covering all of the major political works. These essays demonstrate the vitality of Hegel’s philosophical perspective, engaging the reader…

    S. Gros

    April 29, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • Mallarme’s Sunset: Poetry at the End of Time

    The writings of the great Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) were to become uniquely influential in twentieth century literary criticism. For critics and philosophers such as Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, Mallarmé’s name came to represent a rupture in literary history, and an opening of literature onto a radically new kind of writing. Through close…

    S. Gros

    April 29, 2023
    Critical Theory, Philosophy, Theory
  • ‘Hegel’s Ontology and Theory of Historicity’ by Herbert Marcuse

    This was Herbert Marcuse’s first book on Hegel, written in the early 1930s when he was under the strong influence of Martin Heidegger. It provides a still unequaled Heideggerian reading of Hegel’s thought that seeks the defining characteristics of “historicity” – what it means to say that a historical event happens. These ideas were foundational…

    S. Gros

    April 29, 2023
    Critical Theory, German Idealism, Philosophy, Theory
  • The Scottish Enlightenment and Hegel’s Account of ‘Civil Society’

    Extract from the Foreword: “What the reader is invited to explore is a branch line in the understanding of Hegel’s social and political theory. However it is an important one. For one thing it helps to reinforce a side of Hegel’s thought that has often been overlooked or played down, or alternatively said by Marxists,…

    S. Gros

    April 29, 2023
    Critical Theory, German Idealism, Philosophy, Theory
  • Hegel and the Frankfurt School

    This collection of original essays discusses the relationship between Hegel and the Frankfurt School Critical Theory tradition. The book’s aim is to take stock of this fascinating, complex, and complicated relationship. The volume is divided into five parts: Part I focuses on dialectics and antagonisms. Part II is concerned with ethical life and intersubjectivity. Part…

    S. Gros

    April 29, 2023
    Critical Theory, German Idealism, Philosophy, Theory
  • Marx and Alienation: Essays on Hegelian Themes

    The concepts of alienation and its overcoming are central to Marx’s thought. They underpin his critique of capitalism and his vision of future society. Marx’s ideas are explained in rigorous and clear terms. They are situated in the context of the Hegelian ideas that inspired them and put into dialogue with contemporary debates. DOWNLOAD: (.pdf…

    S. Gros

    April 29, 2023
    Critical Theory, Marxism, Philosophy, Theory, Western Marxism
  • Kant and the Historical Turn: Philosophy As Critical Interpretation

    Immanuel Kant’s work changed the course of modern philosophy; Karl Ameriks examines how. He compares the philosophical system set out in Kant’s Critiques with the work of the major philosophers before and after Kant. Individual essays provide case studies in support of Ameriks’s thesis that late 18th-century reactions to Kant initiated an “historical turn,” after…

    S. Gros

    April 29, 2023
    German Idealism, Philosophy
  • Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim

    Can a human society suffer from illness like a living thing? And if so, how does such a malaise manifest itself? In this thought-provoking book, Fred Neuhouser explains and defends the idea of social pathology, demonstrating what it means to describe societies as ‘ill’, or ‘sick’, and why we are so often drawn to conceiving…

    S. Gros

    April 23, 2023
    Critical Theory, Philosophy, Theory
  • Practice, Power, and Forms of Life: Sartre’s Appropriation of Hegel and Marx

    Philosopher Terry Pinkard revisits Sartre’s later work, illuminating a pivotal stance in Sartre’s understanding of freedom and communal action. Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason, released to great fanfare in 1960, has since then receded in philosophical visibility. As Sartre’s reputation is now making a comeback, it is time for a reappraisal of his later work.…

    S. Gros

    April 23, 2023
    Critical Theory, Philosophy, Theory
  • Understanding Žižek, Understanding Modernism

    Slavoj Žižek is one of today’s leading theorists, whose polemical works span topics from German idealism to Lacanian psychoanalysis, from Shakespeare to Beckett, and from Hitchcock to Lynch. Critical through and through of both post-modern ideological complacencies-e.g., the death of the subject and the return to ethics-and pre-modern ones-e.g., the re-enchantment of the world, the…

    S. Gros

    April 23, 2023
    Critical Theory, Philosophy, Theory
  • The Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings

    Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Louis Althusser enjoyed virtually unrivalled status as the foremost living Marxist philosopher. Today, he is remembered as the scourge and severest critic of “humanist” or Hegelian Marxism, as the proponent of rigorously scientific socialism, and as the theorist who posited a sharp rupture—an epistemological break—between the early and the late…

    S. Gros

    April 18, 2023
    Critical Theory, German Idealism, Marxism, Philosophy, Theory
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