Tag: history
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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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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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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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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 Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 1: The Early Years, 1879-1902
The scholarly stake of this translation volume lies in its disciplined reconstruction of a young researcher’s cognitive, affective, and social formation through a corpus that has been stabilized, ordered, and rendered into English under an explicit editorial constraint: to preserve documentary texture over literary smoothness. The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 1: The Early…
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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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Arthur Schopenhauer: On Human Nature. Essays in Ethics and Politics.
The volume presents a compact yet rigorous dossier of Schopenhauer’s practical philosophy, organized around the claim that any faithful account of ethics and politics must begin from the primacy of willing over knowing, and then track how this primacy complicates received distinctions between freedom and necessity, character and conduct, conscience and honor, justice and the…
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Essays & Aphorisms by Arnold Schopenhauer
Schopenhauer’s Essays & Aphorisms, gathered here through the historically layered work of Mrs. Rudolf Dircks, R. J. Hollingdale, T. Bailey Saunders, R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp, presents a deliberately fragmentary architecture through which its author prosecutes a continuous metaphysical claim: that the world given in experience is a representation conditioned by intellect, while the…
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The Philosophy of Schopenhauer
Scholarly treatments of Schopenhauer often oscillate between exegesis of a brilliant but wayward metaphysician and polemic against a corrosive pessimist; Dale Jacquette’s The Philosophy of Schopenhauer stakes a more difficult and therefore more valuable claim. It reconstructs Schopenhauer’s system as an interconnected economy of concepts in which epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, logic, science, and religion…
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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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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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The Methods of Metaphilosophy: Kant, Maimon, and Schelling on How to Philosophize About Philosophy
The Methods of Metaphilosophy advances a precise and ambitious scholarly stake: to show that Kant, Maimon, and Schelling each devise a method for philosophizing about philosophy that treats metaphilosophy as first philosophy and, crucially, as a discipline with its own experimentally inflected procedure. Schmid’s distinctive contribution lies in the reconstruction of a shared research programme—metaphilosophy-first—whose…
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The Role of Contradictions in Spinoza’s Philosophy: The God-Intoxicated Heretic
Yuval Jobani’s The Role of Contradictions in Spinoza’s Philosophy: The God-Intoxicated Heretic reframes the canonical image of Spinoza’s seamless Euclidean rationalism by arguing, with relentless textual attention, that contradiction is neither an embarrassment to be harmonized away nor an exoteric smokescreen, but a constitutive motor of Spinoza’s project—governing the political architecture of revised religion in…
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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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‘On Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: The 1934-35 Seminar and Interpretive Essays’ by Martin Heidegger
On Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: The 1934–35 Seminar and Interpretive Essays is one of the most unsettling and indispensable documents of twentieth-century philosophy, precisely because it places Martin Heidegger’s thought at the crossroads where metaphysics, politics, and history converge in a moment of fateful intensity. Emerging from the winter semester of 1934–35 at Freiburg, just…
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‘Plato’s Sophist’ by Martin Heidegger
Plato’s Sophist by Martin Heidegger, reconstructed from his seminal 1924–25 lecture course at the University of Marburg, is both an extraordinary exposition of Greek philosophy and a key elaboration of Heidegger’s own ontological concerns, bridging the ancient and the modern in a transformative philosophical dialogue. This work is a rigorous philosophical undertaking, threading Plato’s dialogue…
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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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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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The Phenomenology of Spirit
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit is a book that resists every straightforward description while obliging the reader to submit to its singular logic of unfolding, a logic that moves neither by pure exposition nor by narrative in the ordinary sense, but by a methodical, internally impelled transition through shapes of consciousness that are at once lived…
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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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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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The Return of Hegel
There are works whose apparent modesty—an introduction to a special issue, a framing essay for a post-conference collection—conceals a more demanding wager, namely, to test whether philosophy can still organize experience without doing violence to what is fragile, fractured, and historically scarred in that experience. The Return of Hegel: History, Dialectics and the Weak: Introduction…
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Nation and Aesthetics: On Kant and Freud
Nation and Aesthetics: On Kant and Freud appears, in this great English translation by Jonathan E. Abel, Darwin H. Tsen, and Hiroki Yoshikuni, as a sustained experiment in re-plotting the coordinates through which we have learned to read the modern: not along the now-familiar axis that runs from economy to culture by way of a…
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‘Against Progress’ by Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek’s Against Progress is not a conventional monograph so much as a deliberately fissured surface that refuses to heal: a collection of analytic incursions that turn the received object—“progress”—into a problem that will not stop returning as symptom, screen, and compulsion. The wager is that only a description that never quite stabilizes can meet…
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The Enigma of Woman: Woman in Freud’s Writings
Sarah Kofman’s The Enigma of Woman: Woman in Freud’s Writings is a disciplined reconstruction and a deliberately disconcerting defamiliarization of Freud’s scattered and chronologically asymmetrical reflections on “femininity.” It proceeds by accepting Freud’s declared interest in observation, method, and conceptual economy while patiently exposing the inner duplicities of those same appeals whenever they function as…
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‘A Century of Philosophy’ by Hans-Georg Gadamer
A Century of Philosophy is neither a mere memoir nor simply a late summa, rather it’s a deliberately refracted self-portrait by way of conversation, it exposes the inner grammar of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s thought under the pressure of historical catastrophe and intellectual dispute. It takes the shape of ten dialogues recorded in 1999–2000 between the centenarian…
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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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Predication and Genesis: Metaphysics as Fundamental Heuristic after Schelling’s ‘The Ages of the World’
Wolfram Hogrebe’s Predication and Genesis: Metaphysics as Fundamental Heuristic after Schelling’s The Ages of the World appears, in its English incarnation, as a work whose object is nothing less than to teach contemporary philosophy to hear again what it no longer quite knows how to ask: by what pre-predicative tumult does a world attain to…
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Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle
The provocation of Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle is announced in its title, and the title in turn is anchored in the old Freudian joke that stages denial by multiplication rather than refutation: I never borrowed your kettle; I returned it unbroken; it was already broken when I borrowed it. The enumeration negates nothing; it confesses…
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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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Žižek’s First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Slavoj Žižek’s First As Tragedy, Then As Farce appears, on first approach, to be a slender intervention into the disorientation of the first post–Cold War decade, yet it insists on staging a wholesale rectification of how that decade should be named, remembered, and used. It is a book anchored in the shock of two emblematic…
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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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Hegel and Heidegger on Time
In Hegel and Heidegger on Time, Ioannis Trisokkas sets out a sustained examination of how two different philosophical architectures render time intelligible and what follows for ontology when time is either granted or denied the status of a grounding horizon. The book does not present a catalogue of positions or a tidy comparison, but rather…
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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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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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‘Political Jouissance’ by Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek’s Political Jouissance is not a treatise that cordons enjoyment off from politics as an embarrassing excess to be evacuated in the name of sober normativity; rather, it stages the paradox that politics is already traversed by enjoyment at its very core, such that any attempt at a purely dispassionate civic rationality is itself…
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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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