Simon Gros

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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)

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:

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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)

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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)

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]