Category: Philosophy
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The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
Capitalism, in Ellen Meiksins Wood’s account, acquires determinate form within history rather than it being a timeless inevitability. The distinctive stake of The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View is to replace narratives of smooth “commercial evolution” with a precise specification of the social property relations that generated uniquely capitalist imperatives—market dependence, competitive accumulation, systematic…
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Lorenzo Vinciguerra presents ‘Spinoza: The Prophet and the Sign’
Lorenzo Vinciguerra offers a systematic reading of Spinoza’s critique of prophecy, scriptural interpretation, and the regime of signs by placing these themes at the centre of Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise and relating them to the broader architecture of the Ethics. Beginning from Spinoza’s formal definition of prophecy as a kind of sure knowledge revealed by God…
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Susan James presents ‘When does Truth Matter? The Politics of Spinoza’s Philosophy’
This lecture explores a central tension in Baruch Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus: how can theology and philosophy be both strictly independent and yet arranged in a clear hierarchy of cognitive and ethical excellence? Written in the highly charged political and religious climate of the Dutch Republic, the Theological-Political Treatise was a polemical intervention in defence of…
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Aaron Garrett presents ‘Knowing the Essences of State in Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus’
Spinoza’s political philosophy is often treated as detachable from his metaphysics and epistemology, as though the Ethics and the Theological-Political Treatise (TTP) addressed fundamentally different projects. This talk challenges that division. Reading the Ethics together with the TTP and the Political Treatise, it argues that Spinoza’s political theory is organised around a robust, though rarely…
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Catherine Malabou presents ‘Before and Above: Spinoza and Symbolic Necessity’
In the Theological-Political Treatise, Baruch Spinoza elaborates a daring conception of revelation in which God is nothing other than the immanent order of nature, and prophecy is rooted in the imagination rather than in a privileged speculative intellect. Prophets do not receive transparent concepts but vivid images and signs shaped by their temperament, prior beliefs,…
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‘Parmenides ’ by Martin Heidegger
Parmenides, the lecture course Martin Heidegger delivered at the University of Freiburg in 1942–1943, stages a decisive and at times unsettling confrontation with the inception of Western thinking. Far from offering a merely historical commentary on a pre-Socratic text, Heidegger treats Parmenides’ so-called didactic poem as a privileged site where the primordial experience of truth…
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Thinking in the Light of Time: Heidegger’s Encounter with Hegel
Karin de Boer’s Thinking in the Light of Time: Heidegger’s Encounter with Hegel proposes a tightly structured and quietly ambitious thesis: that the inner unity of Heidegger’s work, early and late, can be made visible if one takes temporality as the guiding thread, and that this same thread allows a renewed, more exact account of…
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‘The Beginning of Western Philosophy: Interpretation of Anaximander and Parmenides’ by Martin Heidegger
The distinctive contribution of The Beginning of Western Philosophy lies in its rigorous presentation of an inaugural confrontation between Heidegger’s post–Being and Time reorientation toward the question of Beyng and the earliest preserved articulations in Greek thought that first ventured to let “beings as a whole” emerge into question. Through a close, philologically attentive yet…
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Not Saved: Essays After Heidegger
In order to situate Heidegger’s thought in the history of ideas and problems, Peter Sloterdijk approaches Heidegger’s work with questions such as: If Western philosophy emerged from the spirit of the polis, what are we to make of the philosophical suitability of a man who never made a secret of his stubborn attachment to rural…
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Foams: Spheres Volume III: Plural Spherology
The final volume in Peter Sloterdijk’s celebrated Spheres trilogy, on the phenomenology of community and its spatial peripheries. The Spheres trilogy ultimately presents a theology without a God—a spatial theology that requires no God, whose death therefore need not be of concern. As with the two preceding volumes, Foams can be read on its own or in relation to the rest…
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Bubbles: Spheres Volume I: Microspherology
The first volume in Peter Sloterdijk’s monumental Spheres trilogy: an investigation of humanity’s engagement with intimate spaces. Written over the course of a decade, the Spheres trilogy has waited another decade for its much-anticipated English translation from Semiotext(e). An epic project in both size and purview, Peter Sloterdijk’s three-volume, 2,500-page Spheres is the late-twentieth-century bookend…
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The Early Heidegger’s Philosophy of Life: Facticity, Being, and Language
The book’s scholarly stake is exacting and distinctive: it reconstructs, from close readings of lecture courses and manuscripts between 1919 and 1925, how facticity—life in its lived and spoken enactment—serves as the medium through which the early Heidegger makes the question of Being pertinent to human existence and to language. Scott M. Campbell’s contribution lies…
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Companion to Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy
The Companion to Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy stakes a precise claim within Heidegger studies: it offers a set of disciplined, conceptually discriminating paths for entering the fugally composed terrain of Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis), together with a patient reconstruction of the book’s internal motors—its experimental diction, its composerly sequencing, and its demand that thinking…
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Heidegger’s Black Notebooks and the Future of Theology
The volume’s explicit wager is that any future, intellectually honest conversation between Christian theology and Martin Heidegger must pass through the Black Notebooks—not around them—and that this passage will reconfigure both the archive of Heidegger’s texts and the very self-understanding of theology. Its distinctive contribution lies in staging, within a single book, a sustained diagnostic…
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Hegel and the Problem of the History of Philosophy: The Logical Structure of Exemplarity
Hegel and the Problem of the History of Philosophy: The Logical Structure of Exemplarity stakes a precise claim at the juncture of systematic logic and historiography. Raysmith proposes that Hegel’s wager—that philosophy has a history and yet aims at the one truth—can be rendered intelligible only if one reconstructs the Idea as a concrete, developmental…
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Heidegger Reexamined | 4 Volumes
Heidegger and the study of his thought have earned wide acceptance, extending beyond philosophy to influence an array of other disciplines. Critically selected by leading scholars in the field, the articles in this new collection bring together the most essential and representative scholarship on Heidegger. Focusing on the major phases of his work which attracted…
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‘The Destruction of Reason’ by Georg Lukács
The Destruction of Reason by Georg Lukács is a monumental work of Western Marxism that delves into the intricate relationship between philosophy and politics, offering a penetrating critique of the German philosophical tradition after Marx. First published in 1952, this intellectually rigorous book examines how post-Hegelian philosophy contributed to the ideological foundations of National Socialism,…
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Contexts of Suffering: A Heideggerian Approach to Psychopathology
Contexts of Suffering: A Heideggerian Approach to Psychopathology presents a rigorous phenomenological and hermeneutic reorientation of psychiatric understanding that challenges the dominance of contemporary biopsychiatry while remaining clinically attuned and methodologically exacting. Its distinctive stake is twofold: to articulate how mental illness manifests as disruptions within the constitutive structures of human existence—mooded attunement, embodiment, spatiality,…
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The Abyss of Freedom by Slavoj Žižek & Ages of the World (1813) by F.W.J. von Schelling
The volume brings together a philosophically exacting, mutually intensifying pairing: Slavoj Žižek’s The Abyss of Freedom and F. W. J. von Schelling’s second draft (1813) of The Ages of the World in Judith Norman’s translation. Its distinctive contribution is in the way it treats Schelling’s speculative cosmology and theology as the most rigorous site for…
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Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of Spirit
In Robert R. Williams’ translation of Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of Spirit (1827-8), the reader is introduced to one of the lesser-known but philosophically pivotal areas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s thought—his exploration of subjective spirit. These lectures, recently discovered and first published in 1994, form an integral addition to the Hegelian corpus, illuminating…
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Hegel and the Other: A Study of the Phenomenology of Spirit
Philip J. Kain offers one of the most approachable guides to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. Written with clarity and an economy of technical terminology, the book preserves the intricacy of Hegel’s argument while opening it to readers who might otherwise find the terrain forbidding. Kain foregrounds the Phenomenology’s sustained conversation with Kant across far more…
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Hegel on Philosophy in History
This festschrift for Robert Pippin brings together leading figures—John McDowell, Slavoj Žižek, Jonathan Lear, Axel Honneth, and others—to probe Hegel’s theses about the intrinsically historical character of philosophy. The essays range across the alleged “end of art” and its bearing on modern aesthetic self-understanding; the conception of human history—and, within it, the history of philosophy—as…
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The Heterodox Hegel
The Heterodox Hegel advances a precise and ambitious scholarly claim: that Hegel’s system is internally governed by a speculative theology whose center is a narratively articulated Holy Trinity, and that the coherence of this speculative center comes into view only when one tracks, with philological patience, Hegel’s selective allegiance to and transformation of distinct Christian…
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Inwardness and Existence: Subjectivity in/and Hegel, Heidegger, Marx, and Freud
The scholarly stake of Inwardness and Existence is exacting and unambiguous: to reconstruct a rigorous concept of subjectivity adequate to modern experience by staging a principled dialectical integration of four usually antagonistic traditions—Hegelian phenomenology, existential analysis, historical materialism, and psychoanalysis—under a single methodological demand that reading must itself become an experiment in transformation. Walter A.…
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The Spinoza-Hegel Paradox: A Study of the Choice Between Traditional Idealism and Systematic Pluralism
The Spinoza-Hegel Paradox advances a precise and provocative scholarly stake: to diagnose, with a rare mixture of historical sobriety and systematic nerve, how two thinkers who share an extensive platform of premises—commitments about abstraction, concreteness, system, truth, infinity, and the very grammar of adequacy—can nevertheless issue fundamentally opposed metaphysical settlements, and to convert that diagnosis…
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Heidegger and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit
The distinctive contribution of Heidegger and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit is to relocate the will—willing, deferred willing, covert willing, and the possibility of non-willing—at the very center of Heidegger’s path of thought, and to do so by reconstructing the movement of that path from within Heidegger’s own texts. It shows that the…
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Heidegger’s Polemos: From Being to Politics
Heidegger’s Polemos: From Being to Politics undertakes a single, exceptionally focused wager: that the most coherent path through Heidegger’s ontology and into his politics runs by way of a reinterpreted polemos—not as mere “war,” but as Auseinandersetzung, a formative confrontation in which beings, worlds, and peoples are set out and apart, disclosed, and bound to…
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Appropriating Heidegger
The distinctive claim of Appropriating Heidegger is that disagreement about Heidegger’s importance and the sense of his project can itself be made methodologically fruitful once it is gathered, displayed, and argued as a field of presuppositions at work in reading. The volume’s editors stage precisely such a field: they solicit positions whose divergences do not…
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Heidegger’s Temporal Idealism
Heidegger’s Temporal Idealism advances a rigorous, intricately argued reconstruction of the temporal architecture at work in Being and Time, and wagers a precise thesis: time as ordinarily understood arises from, and is dependent upon, a more basic manifold—originary temporality—that is constitutive of Dasein’s being. Blattner’s distinctive contribution is to treat this wager as a systematic…
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Freiheit: Stuttgarter Hegel-Kongress 2011
The volume’s distinctive scholarly stake is to specify freedom as a determinate field of conceptual tensions rather than as a settled datum, and to test Hegel’s resources for clarifying those tensions in contemporary registers—nature and second nature, art and imagination, determinism and time, autonomy and law, civil society and market, right and trust, emancipation and…
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Hegel and Legal Theory
Hegel and Legal Theory announces its scholarly stake with rare clarity: it gathers a set of tightly argued interventions—composed around a law-faculty conference frame and reworked into essays—that take Hegel’s Philosophy of Right as a systematic resource for re-thinking the juridical in its full relational breadth, from abstract right and personhood through morality and ethical…
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‘Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning)’ by Martin Heidegger
English translation of Beiträge zur Philosophie GA 65. Heidegger’s second most important work, this book was written during the 1930s but did not become available to the public until 1989. This volume’s distinctive scholarly stake lies in showing how a thinking “from” enowning (Heidegger’s Ereignis) must be enacted rather than reported, and how that enactment…
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‘Martin Heidegger at Eighty’ by Hannah Arendt
Martin Heidegger’s eightieth birthday was also the fiftieth anniversary of his public life, which he began not as an author—though he had already published a book on Duns Scotus—but as a university teacher. In barely three or four years since that first solid and interesting but still rather conventional study, he had become so different…
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The Role of Mood in Heidegger’s Ontology
The Role of Mood in Heidegger’s Ontology makes a precise and ambitious scholarly wager: if one follows Heidegger’s phenomenological-ontological method to its roots, then mood—formally thematized as Befindlichkeit (situatedness)—must be read as a constitutive condition of how human existence (Dasein) is first opened up to itself and its world. Bruce W. Ballard’s distinctive contribution is…
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After Heidegger?
After Heidegger? stakes its claim with uncommon precision: it assembles a deliberately heterogeneous forum of accomplished interlocutors to test whether Heidegger’s thought still provides living questions that can be taken up as one’s own in a philosophically responsible way under conditions shaped by new disclosures—above all the Black Notebooks—and by contemporary exigencies that he neither…
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The Question Concerning Techno-Capitalism: Žižek & Heidegger
This book contends, with unusual precision, that Žižek’s corpus becomes intelligible when read as a sustained, immanent confrontation with Heidegger’s finitude and its afterlife in the “question concerning technology,” and that the motor of Žižek’s oeuvre is a structurally unresolved tension between a historicist diagnosis of techno-capitalist ideology and a trans-historic theory of the revolutionary…
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A Heidegger Seminar on Hegel’s Differenzschrift
In 1958, Heidegger delivered the lecture “Hegel and the Greeks” at the University of Aix-en-Provence. At the invitation of the poet René Char, he later returned to Provence in 1966, 1968, and 1969 to conduct small, intensive seminars in the village of Le Thor with a circle of French philosophers that included Jean Beaufret and…
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Hegel: System of Ethical Life and First Philosophy of Spirit
Hegel’s System of Ethical Life (1802/3) and First Philosophy of Spirit (Part III of the System of Speculative Philosophy 1803/04) is the earliest surviving work in which spirit is prised from natural embeddedness and made to show itself as a self-moving ethical whole; its distinctive stake is to exhibit, in a rigorously economical manuscript logic,…
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Hegel and Greek Thought
Hegel and Greek Thought frames a precise scholarly stake: it reconstructs, with methodical restraint and conceptual reach, how Hegel’s historical-philosophical imagination seizes upon the Greek world to clarify its own norms of reason, freedom, art, religion, and political life, and how this appropriation in turn reorganizes Hegel’s judgment of modern civilization. Its distinctive contribution lies…
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Hegel: The Restlessness Of The Negative
Nancy’s slender book sets itself a very large philosophical task: to exhibit a Hegel whose system breathes as restlessness rather than closure, whose “absolute” is not a perched result but the immanent motion of self-relation, whose politics opens not onto an apparatus of sovereignty but onto the exposed spacing in which being-in-common occurs. Its distinctive…
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
The Philosophy of Right develops a precise claim: to exhibit right as the actuality of freedom, to show how freedom—no mere predicate of the subject but the subject’s own substantial form—realizes itself through the determinate institutions of ethical life. Its distinctive contribution is methodological as much as doctrinal: it refuses both the empiricist compilation of…
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Karl Marx’s Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy Of Right
Karl Marx’s Critique of Hegel’s ‘Philosophy of Right’ is a pivotal work in his early intellectual evolution, capturing both his engagement with and his divergence from the German idealist tradition embodied by Hegel. This work, representing Marx’s first extensive confrontation with Hegel’s political philosophy, marks the beginnings of his endeavor to unravel the delicate bonds…
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, with Marx’s Commentary: A Handbook for Students
The distinctive scholarly stake of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, with Marx’s Commentary: A Handbook for Students lies in its patient reconstruction of the inner articulation of Hegel’s political philosophy together with a running, text-bound staging of Marx’s youthful “transformative criticism.” The contribution is double: first, the book renders Hegel’s system of right as a living…
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Hegel in a Wired Brain
In Hegel in a Wired Brain, Slavoj Žižek approaches G.W.F. Hegel not as a relic preserved behind the glass of intellectual history rather than as a thinker whose conceptual architecture continues to shape the space in which we now attempt to understand our own technological transformation. Published to mark the 250th anniversary of Hegel’s birth,…
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Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique
Scott’s Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique stakes a precise claim: the only adequate way to “use” Hegel for literary study is to let Hegel’s own writing transform what reading is—so that interpretation must be practiced as speculative experience rather than applied as a detachable method. Across a preface of theses, an introduction that situates the…
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G.W.F. Hegel on Art, Religion, Philosophy: Introductory Lectures to the Realm of Absolute Spirit
Hegel’s On Art, Religion, Philosophy: Introductory Lectures to the Realm of Absolute Spirit is a deliberately constructed threshold-text: it merges a mature system into three gateways where the highest activities of spirit reveal their common telos while retaining their distinct modes. J. Glenn Gray’s edition frames these gateways as a single pedagogical arc that makes…
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‘German Philosophy: A Dialogue’ by Alain Badiou & Jean-Luc Nancy
German Philosophy: A Dialogue stakes a precise claim: that a contemporary reckoning with the German tradition can be staged as a rigorously philosophical dialogue whose method is neither commentary nor synoptic lecture, but the testing of concepts at their points of maximal tension where France and Germany have historically intersected. Badiou and Nancy submit the…
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The Young Lukacs and the Origins of Western Marxism
The distinctive contribution of Andrew Arato and Paul Breines’s The Young Lukács and the Origins of Western Marxism lies in its rigorous reconstruction of a problem: how a singular, crisis-formed synthesis of German idealism and revolutionary Marxism emerged, condensed, and fractured in and around History and Class Consciousness, and how that synthesis founded an intellectual…
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The Philosophy of Hegel
Hinging its scholarly wager on modernity as a problem that demands both conceptual reconstruction and historical self-comprehension, Allen Speight’s The Philosophy of Hegel advances a precise contribution: it restores the methodological nerve of Hegel’s project by threading together the diagnostic force of the early Jena writings, the argumentatively staged itinerary of the Phenomenology of Spirit,…
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Of an Alien Homecoming: Reading Heidegger’s “Hölderlin”
This study establishes, with unusual steadiness and reach, how the problem of homecoming under estrangement becomes the pivotal relay between Heidegger’s thinking and Hölderlin’s poetizing across the decisive years 1934–1948. Its distinctive contribution lies in reconstructing the inner logic by which figures of journeying, the river, the withheld homeland, and the passage through the foreign…
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