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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 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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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 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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Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, Volume II: The Lectures of 1830–1831
Hodgson’s edition and Brown’s translation of Hegel’s 1830–1831 Lectures on the Philosophy of World History stake a precise claim: they deliver Hegel’s last, most worked-through public articulation of how world history can be grasped as rational—neither as an imposed schema nor as a string of contingencies—by reconstructing the movement whereby spirit comes to know itself…
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Hegel’s Rabble: An Investigation into Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
Frank Ruda’s Hegel’s Rabble: An Investigation into Hegel’s Philosophy of Right proposes that the seemingly marginal figure of “the rabble” is not an incidental social pathology but the pressure point at which Hegel’s entire political architecture—civil society, the state, and the ethical life that binds them—reveals its internal limit. The book’s distinctive contribution lies in…
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Cogito and the Unconscious
The volume advances a precise wager: that the most stringent account of the unconscious in the wake of Freud emerges when the Cartesian cogito is treated neither as a worn emblem of transparent self-presence nor as a quaint philosophical fossil, but as a shibboleth that divides conceptual labor and tests the rigor of method. Its…
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The Unconscious in Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis: On Lacan and Freud
Marco Máximo Balzarini’s The Unconscious in Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis: On Lacan and Freud isolates with unusual precision the point at which two powerful explanatory regimes—neurobiological description and psychoanalytic articulation—cease to translate into one another and nevertheless cannot stop addressing the same phenomena. Its distinctive contribution is to formalize that impasse as a productive constraint on…
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The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing
The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing advances a precise scholarly wager and distinctive intervention. It argues that the figure most often treated as the mystical excrescence of Hegel’s edifice—absolute knowing—is the structurally exacting nerve of his rational project; and it proposes that this nerve becomes legible only when Hegel is read to the letter,…
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Becoming Nietzsche: Early Reflections on Democritus, Schopenhauer, and Kant
Paul A. Swift’s Becoming Nietzsche: Early Reflections on Democritus, Schopenhauer, and Kant advances a precise scholarly claim: that the conceptual profile of the young Nietzsche between 1866 and 1868 is legible as a disciplined set of problems and methods forged through sustained confrontation with three different figures—Democritus, Schopenhauer, and Kant—and that these confrontations yield determinate…
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Heidegger’s Interpretation of Kant: Categories, Imagination and Temporality
Martin Weatherston’s Heidegger’s Interpretation of Kant: Categories, Imagination and Temporality undertakes a precise test: whether the architectonic that lets Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics press the Critique toward time, imagination, and apperception can be reconstructed, sharpened, and weighed on its own evidence—as an interpretation measured against Kant’s texts and against Heidegger’s phenomenological aims. The…
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Heidegger’s Interpretation of Kant: The Violence and the Charity
Heidegger’s Interpretation of Kant: The Violence and the Charity advances a sharply delimited wager: the notorious boldness of Heidegger’s Kant-book becomes explanatorily disciplined once the guiding procedure of reading—its economy of “violence” and “charity”—is reconstructed with care. Morganna Lambeth’s contribution is to make that procedure explicit and to show, textually and argumentatively, how it yields…
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‘Richard Wagner’ by Francis Hueffer
Hueffer’s Richard Wagner occupies the precise historical interval in which the composer’s career was still a moving target and yet sufficiently formed to admit a synoptic judgment. The book’s distinctive contribution is twofold: it articulates a continuous line from the biographical restlessness of a “man of action” to the evolving grammar of the modern music-drama,…
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Kant, Adorno, and the Forms of History
William S. Allen’s Kant, Adorno, and the Forms of History advances a rigorously argued thesis: that the problem of historical intelligibility is inseparable from the problem of form, and that this inseparability can be brought to conceptual clarity only by threading together Kant’s third Critique, Adorno’s aesthetics and philosophy of history, and the historically saturated…
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Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy
Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy stakes a precise claim in the contemporary field: it reopens the question of philosophy’s vocation by binding the existence of truths to four extra-philosophical procedures—art, science, politics, love—while defending an austere ontological minimalism drawn from set theory as the proper grammar of being. The distinctive contribution of…
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The Genesis of Heidegger’s Being and Time
Theodore Kisiel’s The Genesis of Heidegger’s Being and Time is less a commentary than a topographical and documentary reconstruction of the pathway whose precipices and detours led to Sein und Zeit. A work written under the constraint that a philosophy which avowedly privileges the temporally unfolding situation of questioning cannot be explained by a static…
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‘Contributions to Philosophy of the Event’ by Martin Heidegger
This work stands at the turbulent crossroads of Martin Heidegger’s philosophical “turning,” composed in a hidden stretch of years when he sought anew the question of what it means for being to happen as event rather than to endure as a fixed entity. In the intensity of these private meditations, which were once never intended…
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Hegel’s Faith and Knowledge
Hegel’s Faith and Knowledge is one of the deepest analyses of the fraught yet inseparable relationship between religious faith and philosophical cognition in modernity, showing his early quest to harmonize the spiritual yearning of humanity with the rigorous demands of Enlightenment reason. Published in 1802 within the Critical Journal that he co-edited with Schelling, it…
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The Architectonic of Reason: Purposiveness and Systematic Unity in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
Lea Ypi’s The Architectonic of Reason isolates and restores a neglected nerve of the Critique of Pure Reason: the Doctrine of Method’s culminating section on architectonic unity. Its precise scholarly stake is to show how Kant’s system requires a transcendental principle of purposiveness to integrate theoretical and practical uses of reason, and to explain why…
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Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: Background Source Materials
The distinctive stake of Eric Watkins’ Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: Background Source Materials lies in turning the problem of “Kant’s context” from a diffuse generality into a precise, source-based field in which the semantic, methodological, and polemical options recognized by Kant’s German readership can be reconstructed from the inside. The volume does this by…
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Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution
Rebecca Comay’s Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution stakes a precise claim: that the philosophical architecture of German Idealism, and Hegel’s in particular, bears the imprint of a revolution experienced at once intimately and vicariously, as an event whose terror and promise were registered in Germany through displacement, delay, and symptomatic re-enactment. Its distinctive…
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Marxian Totality: Inverting Hegel to Expound Worldly Matters
The declared ambition of Marxian Totality: Inverting Hegel to Expound Worldly Matters is methodological before it is doctrinal. Its opening gesture situates the project in a landscape where Marx’s intellectual preeminence sits uneasily alongside theoretical disarray on the Left; from this discrepancy Boveiri extracts a single wager: that clarity about totality—what it is, how it…
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Letters: 1925-1975 by Hannah Arendt & Martin Heidegger
The volume that gathers the correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger from 1925 to 1975 is not simply a compendium of private sentiments made public, but an exacting, often disquieting dossier of the twentieth century’s conceptual crises refracted through the most intimate medium two thinkers share: a practice of writing that tests the limits…
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‘Being Towards Death’: Heidegger and the Orthodox Theology of the East
“Being Towards Death”: Heidegger and the Orthodox Theology of the East embodies a far-reaching analysis of Christian theology through the existential prism of Martin Heidegger’s thought, enshrined above all in his notion of “being towards death,” while simultaneously engaging the mystical and apophatic spirit of Eastern Orthodoxy. It undertakes the formidable task of merging together…
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Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice: Hölderlin-Heidegger-Celan
In Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice: Hölderlin–Heidegger–Celan, the reader is drawn into an unusually deep reflection that insists on bringing poetry and philosophy face to face with the most pressing questions of ethics, law, and the hidden exigencies of what it means to measure the immeasurable. The volume ventures beyond any conventional moral or…
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Complicated Presence: Heidegger and the Postmetaphysical Unity of Being
Backman’s Complicated Presence advances a precise and audacious claim: the thread that binds Heidegger’s itinerary from his earliest lecture courses through the texts of the Kehre and the late meditations is a single, rigorously reworked question—how unity holds for being once the metaphysical will to a final ground, system, or identity has exhausted itself. The…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline (1817)
DOWNLOAD: (.pdf, draft) GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCES IN OUTLINE(1817) Preface The need to place a guiding thread into the hands of my listeners for my philosophical lectures is the immediate reason that I let this overview of the entire scope of philosophy appear earlier than I had otherwise intended. The nature…
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‘Less than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism’ by Slavoj Žižek
Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism presents itself less as a commentary redundantly installed upon the edifice of German Idealism than as the staging ground for an experiment in the conditions of thinking when the ground itself is withdrawn. The book’s wager holds that the only way to register the philosophical…
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Freedom and Reflection: Hegel and the Logic of Agency
Christopher Yeomans’ Freedom and Reflection: Hegel and the Logic of Agency can be read as a sustained attempt to retrieve the problem of free will for Hegel by relocating it within the conceptual architecture of the Science of Logic. The guiding wager is that Hegel’s distinctive treatment of freedom—as an achievement of self-determination that simultaneously…
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Hegel, Literature and the Problem of Agency
Allen Speight’s Hegel, Literature and the Problem of Agency can be approached as a rigorous attempt to recover the inner architecture of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit by taking at face value what many readers have treated as merely ornamental: Hegel’s insistent, even obstinate, recourse to literature at decisive junctures of the argument. The wager is…
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Hegel’s Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life
Hegel’s Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life by Robert B. Pippin can be read as an exacting reconstruction of a simple but disconcerting thesis: there is no intelligible way to describe free human action that does not already presuppose a social form of mindedness within which agents hold one another to account. In Pippin’s…
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Peter Sloterdijk’s Critique of Cynical Reason
Peter Sloterdijk’s Critique of Cynical Reason appears, by its title, to submit to a Kantian discipline it simultaneously resists. The borrowed syntagm—Critique of … Reason—signals continuity with the most canonical genre of modern philosophy, yet in Sloterdijk’s hands it functions less as homage than as strategic détournement. The allusion is a gesture, not a pledge:…
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‘Zero Point’ by Slavoj Žižek
The title announces a limit-experience and a method at once. Zero point here names neither a melodramatic terminus nor the consoling trough before an inevitable rebound; it names the station where the fantasy of uninterrupted progress collapses, and the temptation to disavow collapse by acting out — in moralistic fury or cynical resignation — is…
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Adorno, Heidegger, and the Politics of Truth
An elusive and recalcitrant conception of truth, scattered in aphorisms and mobilized as a methodological demand rather than codified as a thesis, stands at the core of Theodor W. Adorno’s philosophical project. Yet Adorno never provides a canonical doctrine of truth. The interpretive risk this absence creates—between mistaking negativity for skepticism and canonizing critique into…
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Sometimes, We Are Eternal
Sometimes, We Are Eternal presents itself less as a tidy primer than as a deliberately knotted threshold to a system that aspires, paradoxically, to clarity about the very conditions under which clarity becomes possible. The volume gathers three compact but far-ranging seminars in which Alain Badiou retraces and tests the arc of the Being and…
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Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates is a small book with an outsized philosophical voltage, a compact intervention whose density is not an ornament but a method. What begins as a meditation on a single historical rupture is exposed as a laboratory for testing the internal…
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‘Violence: Six Sideways Reflections’ by Slavoj Žižek
Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Žižek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Žižek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions the permissiveness of violence in philanthropy; in daring terms, he reflects on the powerful image and determination of…
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‘Totem and Taboo’ by Sigmund Freud
Widely acknowledged to be one of Freud’s greatest cultural works, when Totem and Taboo was first published in 1913, it caused outrage. Thorough and thought-provoking, Totem and Taboo remains the fullest exploration of Freud’s most famous themes. Family, society, religion – they’re all put on the couch here. Whatever your feelings about psychoanalysis, Freud’s theories have influenced every facet…
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The Secret of Hegel: Being the Hegelian System in Origin, Principle, Form and Matter
James Hutchison Stirling’s The Secret of Hegel is a monumental philosophical text that renders the elusive details of Hegelian thought intelligible to the English-speaking reader, while simultaneously preserving the dense, challenging fabric of Hegel’s own language. Stirling’s work is a formidable mediation between the obtuse lexicon of Hegelian German and the prevailing intellectual climate of…
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Jacques Lacan’s The Language of the Self: The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis
In Lacan’s The Language of the Self: The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis, one encounters a work that is at once a return to Freud’s original texts and an unprecedented venture into the very conditions that shape the analytic encounter. This book exists in a space where French philosophical thought, Freudian psychoanalysis, structural linguistics, and…
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Collapse without Sovereignty: Reading History through Quantum Ontology and Hegelian Negativity in Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Politics
A certain relief, in Slavoj Žižek’s view, announces itself at the outset, not in the content of a new doctrine but in the fact that one can still form, across disciplines that typically repel one another, an honest connection. To approach quantum theory as ontology rather than a mere computational apparatus, and to bring its…
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Seditions: Heidegger and the Limit of Modernity
The title declares its method before a single argument is rehearsed. Seditions does not enlist Heidegger to prosecute modernity or recruit modernity to refute Heidegger; rather, it names a quiet but decisive departure staged by Heribert Boeder against the contemporary domestication of both Heidegger and “modernity,” a departure animated not by polemical novelty but by…
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A New Exploration of Hegel’s Dialectics: III. The Three-Dimensional Structure
A New Exploration of Hegel’s Dialectics: III. The Three-Dimensional Structure gathers, concentrates, and then deliberately disperses the accumulated tensions of Hegel’s system by insisting that what most commentaries treat as parallel tracks—logic, epistemology, ontology—are not three separate rails but the self-differentiating planes of a single medium that folds back upon itself. Deng Xiaomang names this…
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A New Exploration of Hegel’s Dialectics: II. Negation & Reflection
Deng Xiaomang’s A New Exploration of Hegel’s Dialectics II: Negation and Reflection presents itself as a treatise on the inner motor and the expressive articulation of Hegel’s system: negativity as the soul of movement and reflection as the form that renders that movement intelligible to itself. In this second volume of a projected triptych, Deng…
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A New Exploration of Hegel’s Dialectics: I. Origin & Beginning
Deng Xiaomang’s A New Exploration of Hegel’s Dialectics: I. Origin & Beginning appears, at first contact, to be a compact treatise on a familiar question in Hegel studies—the problem of how the system must begin and with what—but its distinctive contribution lies in the way it binds that question to an archeology of dialectic whose…
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Hegel, Marx, and the Necessity and Freedom Dialectic: Marxist-Humanism and Critical Theory in the United States
Hegel, Marx, and the Necessity and Freedom Dialectic: Marxist-Humanism and Critical Theory in the United States is a closely argued reconstruction of a problem that is at once conceptual and historical: how the Hegelian dialectic of necessity and freedom is taken up, transformed, and made socially determinate within Marx’s critique of political economy—and how that…
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Hegel for Social Movements
Andy Blunden’s Hegel for Social Movements is a sustained attempt to re-situate Hegel’s system where it can do the most living work: in the intelligibility of collective action, the normative structure of practices, and the metamorphoses of concepts as they are enacted, contested, and institutionalized across the arc of social struggles. Its guiding wager is…
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