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Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin’s immensely influential essay, Toward the Critique of Violence, this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of modern political theory. The volume includes twenty-one notes and fragments by Benjamin along with passages from all of…

Enlightenment, Revolution, and Romanticism: The Genesis of Modern German Political Thought, 1790–1800 is a scholarly book that examines the profound impact of these intellectual movements on German politics during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The text provides a nuanced analysis of influential thinkers such as Kant, Hegel, and Niethammer, exploring their concepts on…

Going through the depths of Hegel’s philosophical universe, Robert Stern’s monumental work, G.W.F. Hegel: Critical Assessments, spanning four volumes, stands as a definitive compendium illuminating the sprawling legacy of the nineteenth century’s preeminent thinker. Hegel’s oeuvre, marked by its profound influence on subsequent European thought, resounds with a complexity that defies singular categorization. From his…

Within In the World Interior of Capital, Peter Sloterdijk embarks on a profound exploration of globalization as humanity stands at the threshold of the twenty-first century. Sloterdijk’s narrative-philosophical approach unfolds a daring thesis: what is commonly hailed or denounced as globalization represents not a beginning, but rather the culmination of a trajectory that commenced with…

In Outlines of the Philosophy of Right, G. W. F. Hegel, through the deft translations of T. M. Knox and Stephen Houlgate, delves into the very essence of human existence within societal constructs. This seminal work stands as a towering monument in moral, social, and political philosophy, its relevance echoing through the corridors of time…

In Tragedy in Hegel’s Early Theological Writings, Peter Wake undertakes a profound exploration of Hegel’s early philosophical and theological works, illuminating a transformative period in Hegel’s intellectual development. Wake posits that Hegel, in his formative years, ingeniously utilized tragedy as a diagnostic lens. Through this tragic framework, Hegel sought to elucidate the unfolding dynamics of…

In Glenn Alexander Magee’s seminal work, Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition, the reader is invited on a profound intellectual journey into the philosophical cosmos of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, unravelling the intricate threads that bind his thought to the enigmatic Hermetic tradition. Magee’s deeply researched exploration challenges conventional interpretations of Hegel, revealing a thinker profoundly…

Remnants of Hegel by Félix Duque delves deep into the lingering echoes of Hegelian thought, challenging conventional interpretations to unearth profound insights into the enduring relevance of Hegel’s philosophy. Positioned as a critical response rather than a mere exposition, Duque’s work scrutinizes Hegel’s quest to construct a comprehensive philosophical system that transcends the complexities of…

Self-Consciousness and the Critique of the Subject by Simon Lumsden delves into the philosophical rift between poststructuralism and German idealism, particularly as it pertains to the understanding of subjectivity. Poststructuralists have long criticized Hegel for perpetuating problematic concepts such as the authority of reason, self-consciousness, and the knowing subject. Simon Lumsden argues that this critique…

In Hegel, the End of History, and the Future, Eric Michael Dale embarks on a critical re-examination of the widely-held interpretation of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (1806) as the proclamation of the ‘end of history.’ This groundbreaking work, the first in English to thoroughly challenge this entrenched view, contends that such an interpretation fundamentally misrepresents…

In the Shadow of Hegel by Arkady Plotnitsky ventures into the profound recesses of historical and philosophical inquiry, crafting a narrative that operates within the ambit of Hegelian thought while simultaneously contesting its principles. Plotnitsky scrutinizes the pervasive influence of Hegel’s conception of history as the manifestation of the Absolutely Self-Conscious Spirit—Geist—through the perspectives of…

In Excessive Subjectivity, Dominik Finkelde embarks on a profound exploration of ethical acts that unveil and challenge the injustices entrenched within prevailing social orders. This incisive work delves into the transformative potential of nonconformist acts, which, while unsupported by existing ethical norms, possess the radical capacity to reshape societal structures. Finkelde masterfully reinterprets the philosophical…

Awarded the Nicholas Hoare/Renaud-Bray Canadian Philosophical Association Book Prize in 2001, Henry Silton Harris’s Hegel’s Ladder stands as a monumental achievement in Hegelian scholarship. This two-volume commentary offers an unprecedented exploration of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), a work frequently deemed the most challenging and enigmatic text in the annals of Western…

The Young Hegel and Religion is a meticulously curated anthology that seeks to immerse the reader in the intricate and often overlooked dimensions of Hegel’s Early Theological Writings. Comprising five seminal essays and various unfinished manuscripts, these formative works—posthumously compiled by Herman Nohl in 1907 as Hegels Theologische Jugendschriften—offer profound insights into the nascent philosophical…

Hegel’s Development: Toward the Sunlight stands as an unparalleled scholarly achievement in the study of Hegel, chronicling the philosopher’s gradual immersion into the realm of philosophy and the inevitable recognition of the personal commitment required in his vocation. Harris’s exhaustive yet elegant work spans the formative years of Hegel’s intellectual evolution, from his early schoolboy…

Hegel’s Development: Night Thoughts is a profound scholarly work that meticulously charts the intellectual evolution of G. W. F. Hegel during his formative years at the University of Jena. This book is the culminating volume of Harris’s comprehensive two-part analysis, filling a significant gap in English-language scholarship on Hegel’s philosophical maturation. The study is grounded…

The Basic Problems of Phenomenology is the text of a lecture course that Martin Heidegger gave at the University of Marburg in the summer of 1927. Only after almost half a century did Heidegger permit the text of the course to be published. In the Editor’s Epilogue, which follows the text, Professor von Herrmann explains…

Heidegger’s Atheism explains what Heidegger meant when he said that all philosophy is atheistic. This unique book traces the development of his explanation of philosophy as a methodological atheism, and relates it to his reading of Aristotle, Aquinas, and Nietzsche. A predominant issue throughout this study is Heidegger’s pursuit of an answer to the question: How…

The history of philosophy, perhaps like the history of poetry, has often changed, although not always progressed, as a result of one thinker’s interpretation and criticism of a major precursor. Familiar examples are Aristotle on Plato, Berkeley on Locke, Kant on Hume, Hegel on Kant, and Heidegger on Husserl. Whether the newcomer’s reading of his…

Toward a Concrete Philosophy explores the reactions of Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse to Martin Heidegger prior to their dismissal of him once he turned to the Nazi party in 1933. Mikko Immanen provides a fascinating glimpse of the three future giants of twentieth-century social criticism when they were still looking for their philosophical…

Domenico Losurdo reconstructs the genesis of Heidegger’s philosophy in its historical context, analyzing the meaning and characteristics of the peculiar “ideology of war” developed in Germany at the outset of the First World War. In the 20th century, conflicts between states took the form for the first time of total war requiring the mobilization of…

The present book attempts a clarification of the question bearing on technology and of its “Essence” in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger. In view of this, our initial task will consist in examining the origins of modern technology, which Heidegger descries in the primordial “experience” of Being, together with the human manners of comportment to…

In The Logic of Being, Paul Livingston examines the relationship of truth and time from a perspective that draws on Martin Heidegger’s thought and twentieth-century analytic philosophy. In his influential earlier work The Politics of Logic, Livingston elaborated an innovative “formal” or “metaformal” realism. Here he extends this concept into a “temporal realism” that accounts for the…

Nietzsche and Heidegger saw in modernity a time endangered by nihilism. Starting out from this interpretation, David Levin links the nihilism raging today in Western society and culture to our concrete historical experience with vision. DOWNLOAD: (.pdf)

No commentary can hope to substitute for the reading of the text itself, but it can provide a helping hand. Being and Time is probably one of the most important books written in the twentieth century. It has influenced not only philosophers, but a wide range of people from writers and poets to psychiatrists and…

Martin Heidegger’s 1925–26 lectures on truth and time provided much of the basis for his momentous work, Being and Time. Not published until 1976 as volume 21 of the Complete Works, three months before Heidegger’s death, this work is central to Heidegger’s overall project of reinterpreting Western thought in terms of time and truth. The text shows the degree…

Offering a full-scale study of the theory of reality hidden beneath modern logic, The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic, a lecture course given in 1928, illuminates the transitional phase in Heidegger’s thought from the existential analysis of Being and Time to the overcoming of metaphysics in his later philosophy. In a searching exposition of the metaphysical problems underpinning Leibniz’s theory…

First published in 1988 as volume 63 of his Collected Works, Ontology―The Hermeneutics of Facticity is the text of Heidegger’s lecture course at the University of Freiburg during the summer of 1923. In these lectures, Heidegger reviews and makes critical appropriations of the hermeneutic tradition from Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine to Schleiermacher and Dilthey in order to…

Martin Heidegger’s (1889-1976) influence has long been felt not just in philosophy, but also in such fields as art, architecture, and literary studies. Yet his difficult terminology has often scared away interested readers lacking an academic background in philosophy. In this new entry in the Ideas Explained series, author Graham Harman shows that Heidegger is actually one…

How could Hannah Arendt, a German Jew who fled Germany in 1931, have reconciled with Martin Heidegger, whom she knew had joined and actively participated in the Nazi Party? In this remarkable biography, Antonia Grunenberg tells how the relationship between Arendt and Heidegger embraced both love and thought and made their passions inseparable, both philosophically…

Presents a critical destruction of the ‘New Criticism’ of modern poetry and a destructive reading of the poetry of Whitman, Stevens, and Olson. Also includes an analysis of how modern and postmodern poetry destroys the notion of ‘tradition’ in the sense of a set of interrelations among texts, and how that destruction should affect criticism…

The work of Jeff Malpas is well-known for its contribution to contemporary thinking about place and space. In the Brightness of Place takes that contribution further, as Malpas develops it in new ways and in relation to new topics. At the same time, the volume also develops Malpas’ distinctively topological approach to the work of Martin Heidegger.…

Martin Heidegger is one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th Century, and a key philosophical resource for literary critics. Not only has he written about poetry, generations of poets have engaged his writings. And yet, for Heidegger poetry and literature are separate. An essential part of the project of this book therefore is…

In Heidegger’s Being: The Shimmering Unfolding, the eminent Heidegger scholar Richard Capobianco draws on many new texts and sources to highlight in fresh ways the beauty and spiritual resonance of Martin Heidegger’s thinking about Being. As in his earlier books, Capobianco offers a meditative path through Heidegger’s thought. He illuminates major motifs that are overlooked or…

Does adherence to the principles of logic commit us to a particular way of viewing the world? Or are there ways of being – ways of behaving in the world, including ways of thinking, feeling, and speaking – that ground the normative constraints that logic imposes? Does the fact that assertions, the traditional elements of…

This English translation of Vom Wesen der Sprache, volume 85 of Martin Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe, contains fascinating discussions of language that are important both for those interested in Heidegger’s thought and for those who wish to think through the nature of language. The guiding theme of these reflections on language is found in Heidegger’s lecture notes for a…

Heraclitus is the first English translation of Volume 55 of Martin Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe. This important volume consists of two lecture courses given by Heidegger at the University of Freiburg over the Summers of 1943 and 1944 on the thought of Heraclitus. These lectures shed important light on Heidegger’s understanding of Greek thinking, as well as his…

Martin Heidegger’s (1889-1976) criticism of Friedrich Nietzsche’s nihilism represented a ‘turn’ in his thought. In this new and perceptive book, Dominic Kelly explores nihilism through the work of two relatively modern and much studied philosophers; Heidegger and Nietzsche and shows how Heidegger began to think in a way that was not solely philosophical and instead…

This book demonstrates how Heidegger’s departure from ontotheology occurs initially as a preparation for the concept of Dasein’s transcendence and subsequently as its explicit development and overcoming. Dasein’s transcendence is revealed as the foundation for the subsequent concept of Beyng as an Event, which stands in contrast to all ontotheological perspectives that assert a singular…

In this book, Federico Dal Bo analyzes the question of Heidegger’s anti-Semitism from a deconstructive point of view, appealing not only to philosophy but also to psychoanalysis, gender studies, and critical studies. Deconstruction famously discourages simplistic oppositions whilst encouraging a more careful analysis of cultural and philosophical complexities of a semantic field. In the present…

It is evident from recent political campaigns, such as that of Donald Trump, that the deployment of attention is crucial for political outcomes. Indeed, Trump’s presidency came about in part due to realities that were produced by the media themselves, which required in turn the engagement of public attention. The implication is that the instability…

This volume explores some of the more important of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s extensive writings on art and literature. The principal text included is ‘The Relevance of the Beautiful’, Gadamer’s most sustained treatment of philosophical aesthetics. The eleven other essays focus particularly on the challenge issued by modern painting and literature to our customary ideas of art,…

Heidegger´s Nietzsche: European Modernity and the Philosophy of the Future offers a study of two key figures in the history of philosophy. By way of a textual interpretation of Martin Heidegger’s reading of Friedrich Nietzsche, it draws renewed attention to the question of ontology in the history of Western thought. The discussion unfolds in the…

In these boldly original studies, Heidegger’s thought is carried critically and constructively beyond its original limitations, re-presenting his project in terms of an emerging body of understanding, making sense of this project not only in its historical, cultural significance but also in its bearing on the emergence of future possibilities. Continuing Heidegger’s commitment to a…

The philosophical concepts of “nature” and “world” have overlapped one another in a myriad of ways throughout the history of Western philosophy. Nevertheless, modernity has constructed a decisive philosophical dichotomy between the domain of nature and the domain of the human world as a response to the revolutions of the natural sciences in the seventeenth…

The book offers a systematic reconstruction of the disagreement between Husserl and Heidegger from the former’s perspective, but without falling into any form of Husserlian apologetics. The main thesis is that Husserl’s critique of Heidegger’s existential analytics as a form of philosophical anthropology entails a deeper fundamental thesis, namely that Heidegger confuses the object of…

In this biography of Martin Heidegger (1889–1976), now available in English, historian Guillaume Payen synthesizes the connections between the German philosopher’s life and work. Critically, but without polemics, he creates a portrait of Heidegger in his time, using all available sources—lectures, letters, and the notorious “black notebooks.” Payen chronicles Heidegger’s “changing destinies”: after the First…

This book reconstructs Heidegger’s philosophy of time by reading his work with and against a series of key interlocutors that he nominates as being central to his own critical history of time. In doing so, it explains what makes time of such significance for Heidegger and argues that Heidegger can contribute to contemporary debates in…

The text of Martin Heidegger’s 1927–28 university lecture course on Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason presents a close interpretive reading of the first two parts of this masterpiece of modern philosophy. In this course, Heidegger continues the task he enunciated in Being and Time as the problem of dismantling the history of ontology, using temporality as a clue.…

The relation between Martin Heidegger’s philosophical thought and his political commitment has been widely discussed in recent years, following the publication of Victor Farias’s controversial study, Heidegger and Nazism, published by Temple University Press. The Heidegger Case is a collection of original essays, by both American and European philosophers, on issues raised by Heidegger’s involvement…