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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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Hostility, Personhood, and Commerce: Reconstructing Kant’s Cosmopolitan Right to Be Spared Hostile Treatment
The lecture advances a precise and demanding thesis: that Kant’s sparse formulation of cosmopolitan right in the third definitive article of Toward Perpetual Peace contains, once read through the lens of his practical philosophy, a normatively complex and structurally ambivalent right not to be treated with hostility. Corinna Mieth’s contribution lies in reconstructing this right…
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War in Kant’s Political Philosophy: Alexei N. Krouglov on the Limits of a Pacifist Reading
Alexei N. Krouglov’s lecture examines Kant’s understanding of war in order to clarify, and partly correct, the widespread image of Kant as a straightforward pacifist whose treatise Perpetual Peace anticipates the international order of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Krouglov argues that this reception is one-sided: alongside the tradition that reads Kant as a prophetic…
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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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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 scholarly stake lies in the way it treats Schelling’s speculative cosmology and theology as the most rigorous site…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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‘Toward Perpetual Peace’ and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History by Immanuel Kant
Toward Perpetual Peace and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History by Immanuel Kant, edited by Pauline Kleingeld and translated by David L. Colclasure, offers one of the most comprehensive and systematically contextualized presentations of Kant’s political writings currently available in English. It is a volume that not only assembles Kant’s most significant interventions in…
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Hegel’s Theory of the Modern State
Shlomo Avineri’s Hegel’s Theory of the Modern State is a landmark work in the interpretation of Hegel’s political philosophy, not only because it offers a comprehensive reconstruction of the development of Hegel’s political thought across his entire career, but also because it succeeds in dissolving the long-standing caricatures of Hegel as either a rigid apologist…
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The Pure Law Within: Foundations of Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals
Philosophy, in its ancient Greek articulation, was divided into three principal branches: physics, ethics, and logic. This tripartite schema is not arbitrary but corresponds intimately to the structure of human reason itself, and thus it remains a fitting and enduring classification. Little requires amendment in this scheme, save perhaps the addition of a unifying principle—one…
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The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte
This book is a journey into one of the most transformative eras in the history of modern thought, a thorough chronicle that illuminates the turbulent passage of German philosophy between the publication of Kant’s first Critique and Fichte’s early Wissenschaftslehre. It is presented with an extraordinary depth of research that captures the uncertainty and the…
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Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality
Eric Watkins’s Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality presents a uniquely thorough and philosophically substantial account of how the architectonic structure of eighteenth-century German thought shaped Kant’s understanding of the causal principles that undergird the fabric of experience. The work does not merely highlight the ways in which Kant responded to a single empiricist challenge…
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Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza: A Study in German Idealism, 1801–1831
George di Giovanni’s Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza offers a deep engagement with one of the most formidable and abiding tensions in post-Kantian thought: the confrontation between Hegel’s developing metaphysics and the legacy of Spinoza’s monism. The book unfolds within the historical and philosophical ambiance of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German Idealism, a…
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Gadamer and the Transmission of History
Jerome Veith’s Gadamer and the Transmission of History offers a sweeping and philosophically charged exploration of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s thought, illuminating how Gadamer’s hermeneutics redefines our collective and individual engagements with the past. In this deeply researched study, Veith moves beyond conventional expositions of Gadamer’s magnum opus, Truth and Method, by showing how the entire arc…
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‘Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics’ by Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger’s Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics is a forceful excursion into the fundamental principles of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, yet it is also a resolute turning point within Heidegger’s own philosophical journey after the publication of Being and Time. First appearing in 1929 and later forming volume 3 of Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe,…
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Willing and Nothingness: Schopenhauer as Nietzsche’s Educator
Willing and Nothingness: Schopenhauer as Nietzsche’s Educator plunges into the heart of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical development by situating it against the background of Arthur Schopenhauer’s towering influence. The volume unfolds as a study of the tensions, continuities, and convoluted transformations generated when Nietzsche, that restless spirit of modern European thought, confronts Schopenhauer’s austere metaphysical vision…
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Romanticism and the Re-Invention of Modern Religion: The Reconciliation of German Idealism and Platonic Realism
Romanticism and the Re-Invention of Modern Religion: The Reconciliation of German Idealism and Platonic Realism is an analysis of a moment in intellectual history when the forces of modernity, with their insistence on immanence and the rigorous demands of critical reason, collided with an enduring, though often obscured, tradition of transcendent realism rooted in both…
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Conceptless Schemata: The Reciprocity of Imagination and Understanding in Kant’s Aesthetics
This paper examines Kant’s concept-less schematism in the Critique of Judgment and makes three key claims: 1) concept-less schematism is fully consistent with the schematism presented in the Critique of Pure Reason; 2) concept-less schematism refers to schematism that does not yield an empirical concept as its result; and 3) in light of 1) and…
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The Ages of the World (1815)
The Ages of the World (1815) by F. W. J. Schelling is a profound, sprawling, and intricate philosophical masterpiece that wrestles with some of the most elusive and challenging concepts in metaphysics, theology, and the philosophy of time. It is a philosophical narrative and poetic speculation that unfolds the genesis of the cosmos, the divine,…
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Before and after Hegel: A Historical Introduction to Hegel’s Thought
Tom Rockmore’s Before and After Hegel: A Historical Introduction to Hegel’s Thought is a philosophically rich, historically embedded, and methodologically nuanced exploration of the philosophical currents that coalesce in the system of G.W.F. Hegel. This book transcends the narrow confines of systematic introductions, offering instead a sophisticated conceptual map that situates Hegel within the grand…
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The Teleology of Reason: A Study of the Structure of Kant’s Critical Philosophy
The Teleology of Reason: A Study of the Structure of Kant’s Critical Philosophy by Courtney D. Fugate is a comprehensive philosophical treatise that reinterprets Kant’s critical system through the lens of teleology, aiming to reveal the purposive structures deeply embedded in his arguments. Fugate argues that understanding Kant’s philosophy demands a teleological perspective, one that…
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Idealism and the Problem of Finitude: Heidegger and Hegel
Idealism and the Problem of Finitude: Heidegger and Hegel by Robert B. Pippin presents itself as a penetrating and uncommonly comprehensive exploration of how the post-Kantian tradition, culminating in Hegel’s ambitious “logic as metaphysics,” comes under pressure from a profound critique of human finitude in the thought of Martin Heidegger. This paper argues that the…
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Hegel: An Intellectual Biography
Horst Althaus’ Hegel: An Intellectual Biography, as translated by Michael Tarsh, explores the life and evolving thought of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, offering a comprehensive and deeply detailed intellectual history that for a long time served as the definitive biographical work on the enigmatic philosopher. Unlike the sporadic and often outdated accounts from the nineteenth…
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Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom
Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom by Klaus Vieweg is not merely a biography of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the architect of German idealism, but a philosophical investigation into the life, thought, and historical significance of one of modernity’s most enigmatic thinkers. Klaus Vieweg’s work offers a well researched and vividly narrated account that challenges conventional…
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Hegel’s Century: Alienation and Recognition in a Time of Revolution
Jon Stewart’s Hegel’s Century: Alienation and Recognition in a Time of Revolution represents a detailed and philosophically rigorous exploration of how G. W. F. Hegel’s thought shaped the intellectual landscape of the nineteenth century. In an era marked by immense upheaval—political revolutions, burgeoning nationalism, industrial transformation, and religious crisis—Hegel’s categories of “alienation” and “recognition” served…
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Philosophy of History: An Introduction
William H. Walsh’s Philosophy of History: An Introduction, first published in 1951 and subsequently revised, stands as a pivotal exploration of how historians conceptualize, interpret, and present the past in light of philosophical reflection. It offers a long and deeply reasoned commentary on the processes by which historical knowledge is both formed and tested. Within…
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Freedom, in Context: Time, History, and Necessity in Hegel
Freedom, in Context: Time, History, and Necessity in Hegel by Borna Radnik offers an extraordinarily comprehensive rethinking of Hegelian freedom in light of our most urgent contemporary contexts, while engaging the full breadth of Hegel’s logical, historical, and ontological framework. In a work that draws together classical German philosophy and twenty-first-century social struggles, Radnik proposes…
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Hegel’s Hellenic Ideal
J. Glenn Gray’s Hegel’s Hellenic Ideal is a study of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s engagement with the cultural, philosophical, and aesthetic dimensions of ancient Greek civilization and its indelible impact on his thought. Published initially in 1941, this work has become a landmark in the field of German idealism, elucidating how Hegel’s perception of Greek…
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Kant and the Faculty of Feeling
Kant and the Faculty of Feeling is a landmark analysis of one of the most enigmatic and underexplored dimensions of Kant’s critical philosophy: the faculty of feeling. For centuries, scholars have explored Kant’s faculties of cognition and desire, often side-lining feeling as a residual category, dismissed as mere affectivity unworthy of systematic investigation. This volume…
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On Hegel: The Sway of the Negative
On Hegel: The Sway of the Negative by Karin de Boer is a presentation of Hegel’s philosophical system, offering a transformative engagement with his legacy through the prism of tragedy, negativity, and dialectics. In this exhaustive study lies an analysis of Hegel’s Science of Logic, through which de Boer unpacks the latent tensions and contradictions…
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‘Hegel’s Political Philosophy’ by Walter Arnold Kaufmann
In Hegel’s Political Philosophy, this curated and intellectually rigorous volume, edited by Walter Arnold Kaufmann, serves as both a forensic examination and a historical dissection of one of the most enigmatic figures in Western thought. Kaufmann navigates the complexities of Hegelian political theory, presenting an unsparing analysis that not only introduces readers to Hegel’s ideas…
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Walter Kaufmann: Discovering the Mind | Volume One: Goethe, Kant, and Hegel
Walter Kaufmann’s Discovering the Mind (Volume One: Goethe, Kant, and Hegel) is an ambitious exploration of intellectual history through the vivid psychologies, ideas, and personalities of three titanic figures who indelibly shaped the discourse of the human mind. With characteristic rigor, Kaufmann casts aside staid interpretations, offering instead a provocative and penetrating reevaluation of Goethe’s…
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The Young Hegel: Studies in the Relations between Dialectics and Economics
Georg Lukács’ The Young Hegel: Studies in the Relations between Dialectics and Economics, translated by Rodney Livingstone, is an indispensable philosophical investigation into the formative period of Hegel’s thought. This monumental work, first completed in 1938, is a rigorous and detailed analysis of Hegel’s intellectual trajectory and its far-reaching influence on Marxist theory. It situates…
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Hegel and the French Revolution: Essays on the Philosophy of Right
Joachim Ritter’s Hegel and the French Revolution is an analysis of Hegel’s political philosophy, a work that dissects the contours of modernity through the lens of Hegel’s thought. These essays, originally part of Metaphysik und Politik, are a demonstration of philosophical clarity and historical sensitivity, addressing the relationship between Hegel’s speculative concepts and the socio-political…
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Leo Strauss on Hegel
Leo Strauss on Hegel, edited by Paul Franco, is best approached as a carefully prepared aperture onto Strauss’s most sustained confrontation with Hegelian philosophy, one in which the familiar antitheses of ancient and modern, reason and history, faith and politics, are pressed to their limits within the concrete discipline of a seminar that reads Hegel’s…
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Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History
In Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History, Michael Allen Gillespie offers a key examination of the philosophical underpinnings of the concept of history, engaging with the seminal works of Hegel and Heidegger to explore the most fundamental and often elusive questions about human existence, freedom, and the trajectory of civilization. This is an expansive…
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‘Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit ’ by Martin Heidegger
In Martin Heidegger’s 1930-1931 lecture course on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, we encounter not merely a reading of Hegel, but an intense and fundamental engagement with the very movement of thinking that animates Hegel’s dialectic. Heidegger, whose own philosophical project aimed to dismantle and reconstruct the history of ontology through the lens of temporality, delivers…
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Hegel and Speculative Realism
In Hegel and Speculative Realism, Charles William Johns undertakes an ambitious philosophical endeavor that traverses the vast conceptual landscapes of speculative realism and Hegelian philosophy, probing the limits of metaphysical thought in contemporary discourse. The book pursues two central objectives: first, to interrogate speculative realism’s conceptualizations of the “real”—a reality withdrawn, contingent, and infused with…
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