Category: Philosophy
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The Poetic Imagination in Heidegger and Schelling
Christopher Yates’s The Poetic Imagination in Heidegger and Schelling is an extraordinary excavation of the fertile intersections between two of German philosophy’s most profound thinkers, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Martin Heidegger, as they grapple with the enigmatic yet essential force of the imagination. This work does not merely juxtapose two towering figures of post-Kantian…
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‘Poetry, Language, Thought’ by Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger’s Poetry, Language, Thought invites the reader to an engagement with the conjuncture of art, language, and thought, exploring the essence of human existence and our fundamental relationship to Being. Through the essays collected here, Heidegger crafts a meditative inquiry into the role of poetry and art in shaping the world, revealing art as…
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Endings: Questions of Memory in Hegel and Heidegger
Endings: Questions of Memory in Hegel and Heidegger, edited by Rebecca Comay and John McCumber, is a monumental exploration of the intersections, divergences, and mutual transformations between two of the most profound thinkers of Western philosophy. This volume is not merely a comparative analysis but a rigorous and provocative engagement with the dynamic and historically…
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‘Hegel’ by Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger’s Hegel is one of the most important engagements with the monumental legacy of German Idealism, especially the thought of G.W.F. Hegel. Comprising two distinct yet deeply interconnected treatises—“Negativity: A Confrontation with Hegel Approached from Negativity” and “Elucidation of the ‘Introduction’ to Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’”—this volume, translated by Joseph Arel and Niels Feuerhahn,…
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The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy
The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy by Robert B. Pippin is an exhaustive engagement with Martin Heidegger’s provocative claim that Western philosophy reached its culmination—and perhaps its collapse—in the German Idealist tradition, particularly in the monumental works of Kant and Hegel. Pippin, a preeminent scholar of German Idealism, examines Heidegger’s penetrating…
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After Parmenides: Idealism, Realism, and Epistemic Constructivism
Tom Rockmore’s After Parmenides: Idealism, Realism, and Epistemic Constructivism is a philosophical inquiry into one of the most enduring puzzles of human thought: the relationship between thought and being. By situating his work within the historical trajectory of Western philosophy, Rockmore confronts the foundational claim of Parmenides that thought and being are identical—a claim that…
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Indifference and Repetition; or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents
Indifference and Repetition; or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents by Frank Ruda presents a densely argued analysis of the philosophical dimensions of freedom as they intersect with the dynamics of modernity and capitalism. Through a detailed engagement with the thought of Descartes, Kant, Hegel, and Marx, Ruda uncovers the persistent tension between freedom as an…
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The Supersensible Realm: Law, Flux, and the Unity of Understanding
Beyond appearance lies the supersensible—a realm where constancy and flux converge in the universal truth of understanding.. Table of Contents Abstract: In The Supersensible Realm: Law, Flux, and the Unity of Understanding, the exploration of consciousness ascends beyond the sensory and perceptual world, delving into the dialectical interplay of forces, the emergence of universal laws,…
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Perception and Deception: The Cycle of Truth and Illusion
How Consciousness Navigates the Tension Between Essential Essence and Inessential Abstraction. Table of Contents Abstract: In Perception and Deception, the dynamics of perception and its contradictions are explored through a dialectical lens. Consciousness initially perceives the object in its singularity, positing it as a unified truth, only to encounter the tension of opposing abstractions. These…
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The This and the Universal: Revisiting Sensory Certainty and Meaning
Through the interplay of the immediate and the universal, sensory certainty reveals itself as a dynamic process of becoming, where meaning is not fixed but continuously transformed. Table of Contents Abstract: This work delves into the nature of sensory certainty, exploring how the seemingly simple and immediate perception of objects is inherently entangled with the…
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The Path of Spirit: From Appearance to Absolute Knowing
Consciousness transcends its limitations, revealing the unity of essence and appearance in the journey toward absolute knowledge. Table of Contents Abstract: This introduction explores the journey of consciousness as it moves toward its true existence and the realization of absolute knowing. The work begins by highlighting the common dilemma of philosophy: how cognition, as either…
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Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Table of Contents SYSTEM OF SCIENCE. FIRST PART,THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT CONTENTS APPENDICES EDITORIAL NOTES SYSTEM OF SCIENCEbyGe. Wilh. Fr. Hegel,Doctor and Professor of Philosophy in Jena,Assessor of the Ducal Mineralogical Society there,and Member of other learned societies. First Part,The Phenomenology of Spirit. Bamberg and Würzburg,Published by Joseph Anton Goebhardt,1807 CONTENTS. Preface: On Scientific Knowledge.…
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‘The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays’ by Martin Heidegger
As relevant now as ever before, this accessible collection is an essential landmark in the philosophy of science from “one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century”. —New York Times Martin Heidegger’s The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays unfolds as a philosophical reflect on the interexchange between human existence and the essence…
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‘On the Way to Language’ by Martin Heidegger
The seminal collection On the Way to Language by Martin Heidegger represents one of the most important explorations of language in 20th-century philosophy. This volume demands the reader’s full intellectual and existential engagement, as Heidegger unfolds his complex conception of language as the “house of Being,” a phrase as evocative as it is enigmatic. Engaging…
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‘The Essence Of Human Freedom: An Introduction To Philosophy’ by Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger’s The Essence of Human Freedom: An Introduction to Philosophy presents itself as one of the most profound inquiries into the fundamental problem of human freedom while serving as a decisive entryway into the larger domain of philosophical thought. Delivered during the summer of 1930 at the University of Freiburg, these lectures remain pivotal…
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Heidegger, Hölderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Language: Toward a New Poetics of Dasein
Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei’s Heidegger, Hölderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Language presents a transformative reappraisal of Martin Heidegger’s philosophical engagement with Friedrich Hölderlin’s poetry, ultimately crafting a “new poetics of Dasein.” At once rigorous and imaginative, the book revisits the dynamics between poetic language and philosophical thought while challenging the prevailing Heideggerian interpretations that have…
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Sounding/Silence: Martin Heidegger at the Limits of Poetics
David Nowell Smith’s Sounding/Silence explores Martin Heidegger’s engagement with poetry, combining philosophical inquiry, poetic form, and the very limits of intelligibility. Far from being a mere commentary on Heidegger’s forays into poetry, this work interrogates the essential tensions and convergences between Heidegger’s thought and the domain of poetics, revealing the ways in which Heidegger’s readings…
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‘For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor’ by Slavoj Žižek
For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor by Slavoj Žižek is a dazzling interrogation of ideology, enjoyment, and the political deadlocks of modernity. In this monumental work, Žižek builds upon a provocative premise: the combination of ignorance and enjoyment is not merely incidental to ideological discourse but is foundational to…
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‘Ukraine, Palestine, and Other Troubles’ by Slavoj Žižek
Ukraine, Palestine, and Other Troubles by Slavoj Žižek is a searing exploration of the apocalyptic tenor of our times, a work that takes as its subject the crises defining our global moment. Žižek, with his inimitable combination of philosophical rigor, psychoanalytic insight, and political audacity, offers nothing less than an intellectual intervention into the madness…
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Walter Kaufmann: Discovering the Mind | Volume Three: Freud, Alder, and Jung
Walter Kaufmann’s Discovering the Mind (Volume Three: Freud, Adler, and Jung) is the monumental culmination of his decades-long intellectual engagement with the traditions of Germanic thought, psychology, and philosophy. Completed just before his untimely death in 1980, this third and final instalment of Kaufmann’s trilogy solidifies his position as one of the most discerning critics…
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The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition
The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition edited by Kristin Gjesdal and Dalia Nassar is a work of immense significance, rigor, and philosophical import. It transcends the narrow confines of conventional historiography by resurrecting and critically examining the contributions of women philosophers who shaped, challenged, and extended the philosophical currents of…
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Value, Money and Capital: The Critique of Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism
In Value, Money and Capital: The Critique of Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism, Guido Starosta, Gastón Caligaris, and Alejandro Fitzsimons re-examine the core tenets in Marx’s theory, offering a critical intervention into the field of political economy and the study of contemporary capitalism. The book serves as both a painstaking theoretical reconstruction and a contemporary…
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Capitalism in the Age of Catastrophe: The Newest Developments of Financial Capital in Times of Polycrisis
Achim Szepanski’s Capitalism in the Age of Catastrophe: The Newest Developments of Financial Capital in Times of Polycrisis is a searing philosophical interrogation of the late-capitalist world system as it collides with an era of unprecedented crises. Rooted in an intricate synthesis of Marxist economic analysis and the radical critiques of Georges Bataille and Jean…
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The Negative of Capital: The Marxian Concept of Economic Crisis
In The Negative of Capital: The Marxian Concept of Economic Crisis, Jorge Grespan undertakes an extraordinary examination of the concept of crisis as developed in Karl Marx’s Capital and its preparatory manuscripts. Rather than treating crises as isolated, incidental phenomena, Grespan reorients the discussion by positing crisis as the very negative of the concept of…
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Essays on Marx’s Capital: Summaries, Appreciations and Reconstructions
Geert Reuten’s Essays on Marx’s Capital: Summaries, Appreciations and Reconstructions is an erudite, detailed exploration of Karl Marx’s magnum opus Capital. This collection of 21 essays, written between 1991 and 2019, illuminates the intricacies of Marx’s systematic-dialectical method and the monetary value-form analysis that undergirds his critique of political economy. Reuten’s work does not merely…
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