Tag: history
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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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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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‘On the Origin of Language: Two Essays’ by Jean-Jacques Rousseau & Johann Gottfried Herder
Language’s beginning cannot be asked innocently, and this volume makes that difficulty audible. By bringing into deliberate proximity Rousseau’s Essay on the Origin of Languages and Herder’s Treatise on the Origin of Language, it stages an encounter between a phenomenology of emergence—voice, accent, melody, climate, polity—and a transcendental anthropology of sign-making—reflection, designation, Besonnenheit (deliberative awareness),…
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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’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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‘America Against America’ by Wang Huning
In 1988, a young Chinese scholar undertook a research trip to the United States at a moment when the world was undergoing profound political and economic realignments. Over the course of six months, he traveled through 30 cities and visited 20 universities, observing not only institutions of learning and government, but the texture of everyday…
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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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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 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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‘In Defense of Lost Causes’ by Slavoj Žižek
In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Žižek is a sweeping philosophical manifesto that boldly confronts the prevailing liberal-democratic consensus, advocating for a re-engagement with radical politics and the revolutionary ideals of the past. Žižek’s work is both a critical examination and a daring re-evaluation of historical totalitarian movements, aiming to uncover and revitalize their…
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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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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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‘Nietzsche’ by Martin Heidegger | 4 Volumes
Heidegger’s four-volume Nietzsche undertakes a rigorous, philologically attentive, and architectonically ambitious determination of Nietzsche’s position within the history of Western metaphysics. Its distinctive scholarly stake lies in showing how the triad will to power–eternal recurrence of the same–revaluation of values coheres as a single meta-conceptual decision about beings as a whole, one that consummates metaphysics…
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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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The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud is a scholarly instrument designed to recalibrate access to Freud’s corpus by bringing the textual surface, the editorial scaffolding, and the translation choices into a single evidential field. Its distinctive contribution is to render visible, and therefore testable, the minute places where Freud’s…
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