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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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‘One World, One Health, One Species? Cosmopolitics in the Pandemic.’ by Étienne Balibar | London Critical Theory Summer School 2021
Adding the problematic category “species” to the well-known motto of the World Health Organization’s “Manhattan Principles” leads us to reflect on the extent to which the Human Species, which is now “passively” unified through the global contagion of a single virus (although with potentially many variants), can also become the agent of a politics of […]
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‘Atoms, Imaged, Imagined’ by Esther Leslie | London Critical Theory Summer School 2021
Departing from Walter Benjamin’s review of Karl Blossfeldt’s enlarged botanical portraits, Urformen der Kunst, titled ‘News About Flowers’, this lecture explores new imaging techniques at the molecular scale and discusses the political implications of concepts such as ‘active matter’, in relation to materialist philosophy, politics and political and social practice. It asks about the implications […]
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‘Theory in Times of Pandemic?’ by Achille Mbembe | London Critical Theory Summer School 2021
What is the task of theory in a time of pandemic? How can it be made accountable to the hour? Which theorists and concepts might be said to have already held it to account in their own thought? Whose pleas for life are heeded and whose not? Under what conditions do profoundly broken people start […]
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‘Communism or Feudalism?’ by Jodi Dean | London Critical Theory Summer School 2021
How do we describe contemporary capitalism? Is our present even rightly described as capitalist? This lecture poses the hypothesis that capitalism is turning into neofeudalism. It draws out four features of neofeudalism: fragmentation (and extra-economic coercion); new lords and serfs; hinterlandization (and the crises of social reproduction); the affective elements of catastrophism and mysticism. This […]
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‘The Ideological Unconscious’ by Slavoj Žižek | London Critical Theory Summer School 2021
Today our ideological space is more than ever caught between extremes: global cynicism and historicist relativism co-exist with new forms of fundamentalism, scientific rationalism co-exists with the revival of ancient wisdoms. To orient ourselves in this mess, we should not focus just on the explicit content of our ideological edifices; we should make a step […]
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Žižek presents ‘Jealous Neighbours and Other Monsters: An Inquiry into Political Theology’
In Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud made abundantly clear what he thought about the biblical injunction, first articulated in Leviticus 19:18 and then elaborated in Christian teachings, to love one’s neighbor as oneself. “Let us adopt a naive attitude towards it,” he proposed, “as though we were hearing it for the first time; we shall […]
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‘The Three Ecologies’ by Félix Guattari
“Just as monstrous and mutant algae invade the lagoon of Venice, so our television screens are populated, saturated, by ‘degenerate’ images and statements. In the field of social ecology, men like Donald Trump are permitted to proliferate freely, like another species of algae, taking over entire districts of New York and Atlantic City; he ‘redevelops’ […]
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‘Living in the End Times’ by Slavoj Žižek
The underlying premise of the present book is a simple one: the global capitalist system is approaching an apocalyptic zero-point. Its “four riders of the apocalypse” are comprised by the ecological crisis, the consequences of the biogenetic revolution, imbalances within the system itself (problems with intellectual property; forthcoming struggles over raw materials, food and water), […]
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Žižek’s ‘Concrete Universality, from Continental to Analytic Philosophy: Kant, Hegel, Lacan & Marx’
Recordings from the Summer School in Critical Theory held in July 2015 at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London. Slavoj Žižek is a Philosopher and Psychoanalytic social theorist. He is Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana; Professor at the School of Law and Director of the Institute for […]
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Žižek presents ‘Hegel and the End of Art: A Delimitation from Pippin’
When a philosopher deals with another philosopher or philosophy, his or her stance is never one of dialogue, but always one of division, of drawing the line that separates truth from falsity – from Plato whose focus is the line that divides truth from mere opinion, up to Lenin who is obsessed with the line […]
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Žižek presents ‘The Absolute Recoil: Hegel and the New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism’
Philosophical materialism in all its forms – from scientific naturalism to Deleuzian New Materialism – has failed to meet the key theoretical and political challenges of the modern world. This is the burden of philosopher Slavoj Žižek’s argument in this pathbreaking new work. Recent history has seen developments such as quantum physics and Freudian psychoanalysis, […]
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Hegel and the Problem of Multiplicity
At the center of Hegel and the Problem of Multiplicity is the question: what could the term “multiplicity” mean for philosophy? Andrew Haas contends that most contemporary philosophical understandings of multiplicity are either Aristotelian or Kantian and that these approaches have solidified into a philosophy guided by categories of identity and different—categories to which multiplicity as such […]
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Between Transcendence and Historicism: The Ethical Nature of the Arts in Hegelian Aesthetics
Between Transcendence and Historicism explores Hegel’s aesthetics within the larger context of the tradition of theoretical reflection to emphasize its unique ability to account for traditional artistic practice. Arguing that the concept of the ethical is central to Hegel’s philosophy of art, Brian K. Etter examines the poverty of modernist aesthetic theories in contrast to […]
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Hegel and Skepticism
The rejection by Anglo-Saxon philosophers of much “continental philosophy” (from Hegel on down) is largely based on the perceived failure of continental thinkers to grapple with the tough questions of epistemology in general and skepticism in particular. Michael Forster demonstrates that Hegel did not in fact ignore epistemology, but on the contrary he fought a […]
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‘Lord and Bondsman on the Couch’ by Mladen Dolar
There is perhaps no other passage in the history of philosophy which has met with such a delirium of interpretations and so much scrutiny as the couple of pages where Hegel deals with the dialectic of lord and bondsman. The passage presents a scene which is both spectacular and overladen with metaphysical hidden meanings and […]
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Hegel’s Lectures on the History of Philosophy. The Lectures of 1825-26 Volume III: Medieval and Modern Philosophy
Hegel’s interpretation of the history of philosophy not only played a central role in the shaping of his own thought, but also has had a great influence on the development of historical thinking. In his own view the study of the history of philosophy is the study of philosophy itself. This explains why such a […]
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Hegel’s Lectures on the History of Philosophy. The Lectures of 1825-26 Volume II: Greek Philosophy
Hegel’s Lectures on the History of Philosophy offer one of the best points of entry to his philosophical system. The second volume (dating from 1825-6) covers a thousand years of ancient Greek philosophy; this is the period to which Hegel devoted by far the most attention, and which he saw as absolutely fundamental for all that came […]
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Hegel’s Lectures on the History of Philosophy. The Lectures of 1825-26 Volume I: Introduction and Oriental Philosophy
Hegel’s lectures have had as great a historical impact as the works he himself published. Important elements of his system are elaborated only in the lectures, especially those given in Berlin during the last decade of his life. The original editors conflated materials from different sources and dates, obscuring the development and logic of Hegel’s […]
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Hegel and Right: A Study of the Philosophy of Right
In this book, Philip J. Kain introduces Hegel’s Philosophy of Right by focusing on disagreements, both with standard interpretations of his work and with Hegel himself. Arguing that Hegel’s justification for punishment ultimately fails, Kain shows how this failure brings into focus the inherent difficulties in justifying punishment at all, thus producing a valuable Hegelian […]
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Hegel and the Other: A Study of the Phenomenology of Spirit
This volume by Philip J. Kain is one of the most accessibly written books on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit available. Avoiding technical jargon without diluting Hegel’s thought, Kain shows the Phenomenology responding to Kant in far more places than are usually recognized. This perspective makes Hegel’s text easier to understand. Kain also argues against the […]
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Hegel’s Recollection: A Study of Images in the Phenomenology of Spirit
Donald Phillip Verene has advanced a completely new reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. He shows that the philosophic meaning of this work depends as much on Hegel’s use of metaphor and image as it does on Hegel’s dialectical and discursive descriptions of various stages of consciousness. The focus is on Hegel’s concept of recollection […]
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The Heterodox Hegel
Cyril O’Regan argues for a theological reading of Hegel which clarifies the religious or theological species Hegel thinks can be brought into rapprochement with philosophy; unites a number of different approaches to Hegel which have proven fruitful, if incomplete; and, within the bounds of a systematic approach, addresses questions of a religio-theological type, including Hegel’s […]
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Beyond Hegel and Dialectic: Speculation, Cult, and Comedy
This book is a defense of speculative philosophy in the wake of Hegel. In a number of wide-ranging, meditative essays, Desmond deals with the criticism of speculative thought in post-Hegelian thinking. He covers the interpretation of Hegelian speculation in terms of the metataxological notion of being and the concept of philosophy that Desmond has developed […]
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The Politics of Salvation: The Hegelian Idea of the State
The Politics of Salvation takes a radical stance: it focuses on the significance of the state in the Hegelian system when it is viewed as inspired and motivated by the Christian notion of God. The book thus makes connections between Hegel’s political philosophy and his explicit appropriation of Christianity’s incarnational mode of thinking. In unfolding […]
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History and System: Hegel’s Philosophy of History
History and System represents the first volume on Hegel’s philosophy of history to be published in English. The editor notes that “with the possible exceptions of Augustine and Vico, no philosopher before Hegel had such a deep sense of the mutual penetration of history and philosophy as did Hegel. Historical reflection influenced his reading of […]