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Under the Spell of Freedom: Theory of Religion after Hegel and Nietzsche
Under the Spell of Freedom: Theory of Religion after Hegel and Nietzsche pursues a single, steadily ramifying question: how the history of religion and the history of political freedom condition one another once the confidence in a unitary, internally necessary story of Western modernity has become questionable. Hans Joas treats Hegel’s synthesis of Christianity and…
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Hegel Beyond Liberalism: The Dialectic of Political and Economic Democracy
Hegel Beyond Liberalism: The Dialectic of Political and Economic Democracy constructs a densely interlocked conceptual space around a single question: what kind of social order is required if the modern concept of freedom is to become fully actual, rather than remaining an internally divided ideal. The book’s governing ambition is to read Hegel’s Philosophy of…
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Democracy Against the Populist Temptation
In a 2009 lecture Slavoj Žižek developed a loosely connected but internally consistent set of claims about democratic legitimacy, the affective mechanics of populism, and the changing styles of political authority under contemporary capitalism. Speaking in a polemical yet diagnostic register, he framed his argument as a warning against the temptation to treat “the people”…
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The Master is Undead
Mladen Dolar’s lecture, The Master is Undead, stakes a precise claim about modern authority: psychoanalysis belongs to political modernity because it was born at the moment when traditional sovereignty lost the capacity to guarantee itself, and when “masters” therefore reappear in counterfeit forms that draw their efficacy from the very rationalities that promised to supersede…
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The World Hysterical Individual
Andrew Cole’s lecture pursues a sharply delimited scholarly stake: it re-reads Hegel’s concept of the world-historical individual at the precise point where its apparent grandeur becomes politically legible as a theory of autocratic formation, and where its theoretical afterlives (in Marxist, Lukácsian, and Frankfurt School idioms) reveal a recurrent strategy of deflection—citing the concept in…
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Whose Servant Is a Master?
Whose Servant Is a Master? stages a concentrated intervention into contemporary political philosophy by treating “mastery” less as an archaic residue than as a recurring functional necessity generated by modern emancipatory projects themselves. The lecture’s distinctive scholarly stake lies in its attempt to re-map authority after the Enlightenment by refusing the easy consolations of either…
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Hegel and the Representative Constitution
Hegel and the Representative Constitution asks how to read Hegel’s mature political philosophy: as a historically situated, source-responsive intervention into the post-Napoleonic “constitutional question,” whose argumentative core concerns the conditions under which constitutional monarchy, popular participation, and the unity of state powers can be coherently articulated. Elias Buchetmann’s distinctive contribution lies in reconstructing, with unusual…
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Hegel’s Philosophy of World History
Hegel’s Philosophy of World History stakes a claim that remains singular in the tradition: it proposes that world history is intelligible as a self-unfolding rational whole whose intelligibility is neither an external schema imposed upon events nor an empirical generalization from them, but the inner movement by which freedom becomes actual in institutions, consciousness, and…
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‘Introduction to the Philosophy of History’ by Georg W. F. Hegel
Hegel’s Introduction to the Philosophy of History makes a precise methodologically abrasive claim: world history, approached philosophically, permits an account in which the intelligibility of the whole can be rendered as a determinate logic of freedom without dissolving the empirical thickness of events into mere exempla. In this edition’s careful construction—framed by a translator’s contextual…
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Hegel’s World Revolutions
Richard Bourke’s Hegel’s World Revolutions claims that Hegel’s historical and political philosophy yields its central diagnostics only when reconstructed through the sequence of revolutions that, in Hegel’s account, generate modern freedom while repeatedly placing it at risk. Bourke’s distinctive contribution lies in combining source-driven intellectual history with conceptual analysis in order to reinsert Hegel into…
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Hegel on Abstraction
Simon Gros’s unfinished book Hegel on Abstraction stakes out a precise scholarly intervention by treating “abstraction” neither as a mere slogan for “thin universals” nor as a detachable keyword whose meaning can be stabilized by dictionary definition, but as a repeatedly refunctionalized operator whose sense shifts with Hegel’s changing tasks: logical determination, methodological beginning, social-moral…
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The Idea of the Good in Kant and Hegel
The Idea of the Good in Kant and Hegel repositions “the good” as a systematic load-bearing concept in classical German philosophy, arguing—through a deliberately cross-disciplinary set of studies—that the good functions as a structural principle spanning logic, ontology, practical reason, and social reality, and that its persistent entanglement with “evil” belongs to its very intelligibility…
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Schelling’s Late Philosophy in Confrontation with Hegel
Peter Dews’ Schelling’s Late Philosophy in Confrontation with Hegel undertakes a rare kind of reconstruction: it treats Schelling’s late, notoriously recalcitrant system as a philosophically accountable project whose guiding distinctions, inferential pivots, and historical narratives can be made explicit without being flattened into mere intellectual biography or reduced to a set of anti-Hegelian gestures. The…
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Between Kant & Hegel: Texts in the Development of Post-Kantian Idealism
Between Kant & Hegel: Texts in the Development of Post-Kantian Idealism stakes its claim, with a kind of quiet but decisive ambition, on two linked fronts: it offers, first, a rigorously delimited documentary core of seminal writings from the decades between the Critique of Pure Reason and the Phenomenology of Spirit, and second, a pair…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Reason in Religion: The Foundations of Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion
Walter Jaeschke’s Reason in Religion: The Foundations of Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion stakes a precise claim: it reconstructs, with philological rigor and systematic intent, how Hegel regrounds the very possibility of a philosophy of religion by reopening the question that Kant appeared to close—whether speculative reason can know God—and by tracking how that reopening reshapes…
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The Collected Works of Karl Marx & Frederick Engels (MECW)
The Marx/Engels Collected Works (MECW) is an unparalleled compendium of the intellectual legacy and revolutionary spirit of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, extending from the early years of their careers in 1835 through to Engels’ death in 1895. This monumental collection, spanning fifty volumes, represents the most extensive and comprehensive translation into English of their…
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G.W.F. Hegel: The Berlin Phenomenology
The Berlin Phenomenology presents, in a compact and rigorously articulated register, a doctrine of consciousness that is at once internal to the Encyclopaedia’s systematic architecture and responsive to the empirical texture of the human sciences. Its distinctive scholarly stake lies in exhibiting how consciousness, treated not as a free-standing tribunal but as a domain continuous…
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The Problem of Religion, Christianity, and the Role of Protestantism in the Philosophy of the Early Hegel (1795–1806)
Hinging its argument on the early Hegel’s struggle to convert religious inheritance into a generative logic of system, Dr. Imre Bártfai’s study isolates religion—Christianity in general and Protestantism in particular—as a constructive problem-space through which moral aspiration, civic motivation, and speculative method are successively refashioned from Tübingen through Bern and Frankfurt into Jena. The work’s…
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Foundations of Hegel’s Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom
The distinctive stake of Frederick Neuhouser’s Foundations of Hegel’s Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom is to isolate, with systematic precision, the normative standards by which Hegel judges modern institutions rational, and to reconstruct those standards independently of both the metaphysical architectonics of the Logic and the genetic narrative of the Phenomenology. The contribution is twofold: first,…
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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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Hegel on Second Nature in Ethical Life
Andreja Novakovic’s Hegel on Second Nature in Ethical Life isolates, with unusual precision, a single hinge in Hegel’s practical philosophy and turns the whole edifice on it: the claim that subjective freedom is best realized when ethical norms have sedimented as second nature, such that agents inhabit a rational order without the friction of perpetual…
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Marx’s Not-Capital: Labour and the Contemporary Critique of Political Economy
Benjamin Tetler’s Marx’s Not-Capital: Labour and the Contemporary Critique of Political Economy stakes a precise claim within Marx scholarship: the recovery, systematization, and methodological testing of Marx’s scattered determinations of labour as not-capital and value as not-value, drawn from the preparatory manuscripts to Capital, in order to reorient critique away from the affirmation of labour…
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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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Kant’s Early Critics: The Empiricist Critique of the Theoretical Philosophy
The distinction of Kant’s Early Critics: The Empiricist Critique of the Theoretical Philosophy lies in its reconstruction—through first-time English translations and a programmatic editorial introduction—of the earliest, empiricist-leaning attempts to read, resist, and retool the Critique of Pure Reason between 1781 and 1789. Sassen’s scholarly stake is not merely curatorial. By arranging reviews, essays, and…
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