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Rethinking the Arts after Hegel: From Architecture to Motion Pictures
In Rethinking the Arts after Hegel: From Architecture to Motion Pictures, Richard Dien Winfield delivers nothing short of a magnum opus on the aesthetics of the individual arts, grounded in Hegelian principles yet transcending their limitations with philosophical rigor. Winfield reimagines the systematic architecture of Hegel’s Aesthetics, preserving its revolutionary insight into art’s mediation of…
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Schelling and Spinoza: Realism, Idealism, and the Absolute
Schelling and Spinoza: Realism, Idealism, and the Absolute by Benjamin Norris is a rigorous philosophical excavation of the intersection between Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling’s transcendental and speculative idealism and Baruch Spinoza’s rationalist metaphysics. This work reconstructs Schelling’s engagement with Spinoza’s substance monism to illuminate the persistent philosophical tensions between realism and idealism that animate Schelling’s…
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Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity
Brady Bowman’s Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity delivers a rigorous examination of the very essence of Hegelian philosophy, offering a study of Hegel’s doctrine of absolute negativity and the Concept (der Begriff) as the pivotal elements that animate his dialectical system. These doctrines are not only Hegel’s most original contributions but also the…
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Hegel and the Transformation of Philosophical Critique
William F. Bristow’s Hegel and the Transformation of Philosophical Critique offers an analysis of the epistemological confrontation between Hegel and Kant, one that defines one of the most consequential moments in the history of modern European philosophy. In this rigorous study, Bristow examines Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit as a bold response to, and transformation of,…
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Universal Reconciliation: Logic as Form of the World
Hegel’s Philosophy of Universal Reconciliation: Logic as Form of the World by Stephen Theron represents a culmination of a presentation of Hegel’s theology and metaphysics, positioned as the final entry in a series dedicated to Hegel as theologian. This series, inaugurated with New Hegelian Essays (2012) and developed through From Narrative to Necessity (2012) and…
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The Dialectical Method: A Treatise Hegel Never Wrote
Clark Butler’s The Dialectical Method: A Treatise Hegel Never Wrote constitutes an ironically reasoned, deeply scholarly, and conceptually ambitious effort to elucidate, systematize, and formalize the elusive essence of Hegel’s dialectical method. At once keenly analytic and historically aware, Butler’s work seeks to fill a conspicuous lacuna in Hegel’s oeuvre, wherein the German philosopher never…
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The Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters
In Slavoj Žižek’s The Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters, the reader is immediately drawn into a staggeringly complex, exhaustively intricate, and conceptually vertiginous philosophical essay that seeks to re-locate Schelling—so often overshadowed by the towering figures of Kant and Hegel—at the very center of a tradition stretching from the ancient materialists, through Marx,…
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Hegel and Theology
In Hegel and Theology, Martin J. De Nys offers a philosophically charged reading of the complex relation between Hegel’s philosophy of religion and the contemporary theological imagination, a meditation that demands a careful and extended reflection on the proper place and function of religious thought in a world shaped by both the Enlightenment’s critical legacy…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: The Science of Logic | George Di Giovanni Translation
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s The Science of Logic, in this Cambridge translation by George Di Giovanni, is a monumental work in the annals of Western philosophy, representing both the culmination of classical metaphysics and a crucial reconfiguration of philosophical thought. This comprehensive edition brings together the revised Book I from 1832, along with Books II…
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Heidegger’s Metaphysics: The Overturning of ‘Being and Time’
Aengus Daly’s Heidegger’s Metaphysics: The Overturning of ‘Being and Time’ is an analysis of the transitional phase in Martin Heidegger’s philosophical development, particularly in the late 1920s. Daly goes into the transformation of Heidegger’s seminal project in Being and Time into what the philosopher himself began to term the “metaphysics of Dasein.” This book is…
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit
Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit, edited and introduced by Michael John Petry, spans three volumes exploring human experience, self-realization, and the dialectical development of spirit as outlined in this bilingual edition of the first part of Hegel’s Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences. Each volume unfolds Hegel’s philosophy of subjective spirit, tracing its progression toward self-knowledge…
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La conciencia infeliz: Ensayo sobre la filosofía de la religión de Hegel
In La conciencia infeliz: Ensayo sobre la filosofía de la religión de Hegel, Antonio Escohotado explores Hegel’s complex philosophy of religion, situating the religious consciousness within the broader dialectic of philosophical and historical consciousness. Escohotado confronts Hegel’s idea of “unhappy consciousness” as a distinctively human existential state—a paradoxical blend of longing and estrangement in which…
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Experience and Empiricism: Hegel, Hume, and the Early Deleuze
Experience and Empiricism: Hegel, Hume, and the Early Deleuze by Russell Ford offers a striking and deeply historical exploration of Gilles Deleuze’s initial forays into philosophy through his early writings, most notably his debut work, Empiricism and Subjectivity. Ford’s analysis examines Deleuze’s engagement with David Hume’s philosophy, not as a stand-alone study, but as a…
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Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim
In Diagnosing Social Pathology, Frederick Neuhouser presents a philosophical analysis of societal dysfunction, engaging with complex questions about whether and how societies, like biological organisms, might be understood as being “ill” or “diseased.” This ambitious work brings together Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim, philosophers not typically considered as part of a single tradition, to examine…
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Indagini su Hegel
In Indagini su Hegel (Investigations on Hegel), Benedetto Croce crafts a philosophical dialogue that transcends mere critique to explore the tensions and affinities between his own intellectual journey and that of Hegel. Centered on a fictional encounter between Hegel and a Neapolitan admirer, Francesco Sanseverino, Croce’s novella is a masterful blend of historical reflection and…
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From Apparent to True Knowledge (Wissen): Hegel on Concept Acquisition and Object Constitution in the ›Phenomenology of Spirit‹
From Apparent to True Knowledge by Rolf-Peter Horstmann is an analisys of the processes underlying Hegel’s epistemology. Horstmann goes into the transitions between various configurations of consciousness and spirit in Hegel’s seminal work, positing that these transitions are fundamentally grounded in a unique semantic theory. By providing a detailed analysis of this theory, he reconstructs…
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L’essere come ritorno. Il concetto di riflessione nella filosofia di Hegel
Being as Return: The Concept of Reflection in Hegel’s Philosophy by Michele Capasso is an exhaustive and incisive exploration of one of the most pivotal concepts in Hegelian philosophy—the concept of reflection. Capasso illuminates the significance of reflection in the unfolding of the Idea and its essential role in the dialectical movement that characterizes Hegel’s…
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Hegel, Heidegger, and the Quest for the “I”: Prolegomena to a Philosophy of the Self
Hegel, Heidegger, and the Quest for the “I”: Prolegomena to a Philosophy of the Self by Paolo Diego Bubbio is a rigorous examination of the elusive nature of the “I” within the philosophical frameworks of G.W.F. Hegel and Martin Heidegger. Bubbio explores the ways both philosophers grapple with the concept of selfhood, moving beyond the…
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Justice and Freedom in Hegel
Justice and Freedom in Hegel, edited by Paolo Diego Bubbio and Andrew Buchwalter, is an analysis of the relationship between justice and freedom within the practical philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. This volume explores the pivotal concept of reciprocal recognition, illuminating how Hegel’s treatment of justice and freedom offers a robust framework for addressing…
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Contradiction Resolves Itself
Contradiction Resolves Itself: An Analysis of the Arguments in the Chapter ‘The Essentialities or the Determinations of Reflection’ in Hegel’s Doctrine of Essence by Folko Zander is an analysis of one of the most challenging and pivotal aspects of Hegelian philosophy: the concept of contradiction. Zander, a distinguished scholar in Classical German Philosophy with doctorates…
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Sadra and Hegel on Metaphysical Essentialism
Sadra and Hegel on Metaphysical Essentialism by Kamal Abdul Karim Shlbei is a comparative study that examines and compares the philosophies of Mulla Sadra, a pivotal figure in Islamic philosophy, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a cornerstone of Western philosophical thought. The book presents the accounts of the relationship between essence and existence as represented…
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Michel Foucault: La constitution d’un transcendantal historique dans la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel
The Constitution of a Historical Transcendental in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit by Michel Foucault is the analysis of Hegelian philosophy through the lens of a young philosopher deeply immersed in the intellectual currents of his time. Defended on June 11, 1949, as his master’s thesis in philosophy at the Sorbonne under the supervision of Jean…
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Hegel on Sacred Poetry: Love, Freedom, and the Practical Roots of the Sublime
In Hegel on Sacred Poetry: Love, Freedom, and the Practical Roots of the Sublime, Víctor Ibarra B. offers a reexamination of Hegel’s theory of the sublime, focusing on what he identifies as its core element: the sacred poetry of the Judaic Psalms. Challenging the prevailing scholarly view that Hegel showed little interest in the notion…
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Vom Problem eine Schreibfeder zu deduzieren: Erkenntnistheoretische Einordnung des Einzelnen bei Hegel
In Vom Problem eine Schreibfeder zu deduzieren: Erkenntnistheoretische Einordnung des Einzelnen bei Hegel (On Deducing a Pen from the Problem: Epistemological Classification of the Individual in Hegel), Nina Lott engages in a detailed philosophical investigation that centers on a seemingly trivial but philosophically rich challenge first raised by Wilhelm Traugott Krug. Krug’s assertion that everything…
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Individuum und Geist: G.W.F. Hegels Aufbruch in die Moderne
In Individuum und Geist: G.W.F. Hegels Aufbruch in die Moderne (Individual and Spirit: G.W.F. Hegel’s Departure into Modernity), Eva von Grafenstein makes a critical and deeply reflective examination of the oft-criticized relationship between the individual and Hegel’s philosophical system, focusing particularly on an area of Hegel’s thought that has remained underappreciated: the Philosophy of Subjective…
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Was bleibet aber, stiften die Dichter: Hegel, Beckett und ihre Zumutungen
Ludwig Pfeiffer’s Was bleibet aber, stiften die Dichter: Hegel, Beckett und ihre Zumutungen (What Remains, However, Are Created by the Poets: Hegel, Beckett, and Their Demands) is a key philosophical reflection that explores the complex and often fraught relationship between philosophy and literature. Anchored in the intellectual context of early modern Europe, where the proliferation…
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Hegel über Leben und Natur: Sinn und Aktualität
In Hegel über Leben und Natur: Sinn und Aktualität (Hegel on Life and Nature: Meaning and Relevance), Taiju Okochi offers an expansive exploration of two seemingly disparate, yet deeply interconnected, terms in Hegel’s philosophy: Leben (life) and Natur (nature). These notions, which at first glance might appear unrelated or even oppositional within Hegel’s comprehensive system,…
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Hegel lesen und verstehen: Eine Einführung
Reiner Ruffing’s Hegel lesen und verstehen: Eine Einführung is an insightful attempt to make the dense and challenging philosophical system of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel accessible to a broader audience. Aimed at those seeking a structured entry point into Hegel’s complex thought, this book offers a clear and methodical approach, tackling both Hegel’s biography and…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Gesammelte Werke
The historical-critical Academy edition of G.W.F. Hegel’s Gesammelte Werke (Collected Works) is the scholarly edition that encompasses the entirety of Hegel’s preserved works. This comprehensive project provides an authoritative resource on Hegel’s major writings, establishing a milestone in philosophical scholarship. It includes both published volumes and those forthcoming, aiming to cover everything from Hegel’s published…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Vorlesungen über die Geschichte der Philosophie IV, Gesammelte Werke, 30,4
Hegel’s Vorlesungen über die Geschichte der Philosophie IV (Lectures on the History of Philosophy IV) is a volume of Gesammelte Werke (Collected Works) documenting Hegel’s winter semester lectures of 1827/28 on the history of philosophy. This work, derived from the surviving transcripts of Alexander Hueck and August Diecks, with additional fragments from the lost transcript…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Vorlesungen über die Philosophie des Rechts IV, Gesammelte Werke, 26,4
This volume, Vorlesungen über die Philosophie des Rechts IV: Anhang (Lectures on the Philosophy of Right IV: Appendix), serves as a supplementary text to Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of Right, providing an addition to Hegel’s lectures on law, ethics, and the state. As the concluding fourth volume to the three-part edition (GW 26,1–3), it…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Natur III, Gesammelte Werke, 24,3
This third volume of Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature presents a critical and comprehensive edition of secondary sources compiled by Hegel’s disciple, Carl Ludwig Michelet, who added significant supplementary material to the second part of Hegel’s Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830). In previous volumes, all known student transcripts from Hegel’s Berlin lectures on natural philosophy…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Natur II, Gesammelte Werke, 24,2
This volume presents Hegel’s in-depth lectures on the Philosophy of Nature, offering insight into his unique approach in contrast to Schelling’s philosophy of nature. The lectures documented here span two significant periods during Hegel’s time in Berlin: the winter semester of 1825/26 and the summer semester of 1828. The winter lectures are captured in Moritz…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Wissenschaft der Logik. Erster Band. Die Lehre vom Sein (1832), Gesammelte Werke, 21
This volume presents the second edition of the first part of Hegel’s Science of Logic, specifically The Objective Logic, Volume I: The Doctrine of Being, as part of the Academia study edition in the historical-critical edition of the Gesammelte Werke (Collected Works). It includes extensive editor’s notes, bibliographical references, and translations for quotations in classical…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte III, Gesammelte Werke, 27,3
This volume of Gesammelte Werke presents comprehensive notes from Hegel’s lectures given during the winter semester of 1826/27. These lectures, which include contributions from several key note-takers, delve into complex aspects of Hegelian philosophy, specifically through three major sets of student transcripts that document his mature thought. Joseph Hube’s notes serve as the primary text,…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jenaer kritische Schriften, Gesammelte Werke, 04
The Difference Between Fichte’s and Schelling’s Systems of Philosophy (1801) is Hegel’s first philosophical publication. Here, Hegel addresses fundamental questions of a philosophy of the Absolute with originality and independence: he discusses the organ and method of philosophizing, the relationship between reflection and speculation, between philosophy and system, the purpose and necessity of philosophy, as…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jenaer Systementwürfe III, Gesammelte Werke, 08
The lecture manuscript on the philosophy of nature and philosophy of spirit from the years 1805/06 represents the latest of the three surviving system drafts from Hegel’s Jena period. Regarding the philosophy of nature, the text of this lecture stands out because it is the first to have a systematic structure that closely resembles the…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jenaer Systementwürfe II, Gesammelte Werke, 07
The fragment of a manuscript titled Logic, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Nature from the years 1804/1805 forms the second system draft by Hegel from his Jena period, which was, however, interrupted for substantive reasons. The significance of this fragment lies particularly in the fact that this draft differs from both the preceding and the subsequent…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jenaer Systementwürfe I, Gesammelte Werke, 06
This volume Jena System Drafts I: The System of Speculative Philosophy. Fragments from Lecture Manuscripts on the Philosophy of Nature and Spirit presents a pivotal exploration of Hegel’s System of Speculative Philosophy, tracing the foundational concepts of his broader philosophical system. It begins with the transition from celestial to earthly systems in Hegel’s metaphysical framework…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Schriften und Entwürfe I (1817-1825), Gesammelte Werke, 15
This volume of Gesammelte Werke focuses on a variety of Hegel’s early writings, both published and unpublished, spanning across his intellectual development from 1799 to 1808. It includes printed works, manuscripts, and secondary transmissions that shed light on his evolving philosophical views. Printed Works: Manuscripts: Secondary Transmissions: The appendix provides helpful editorial aids, including a…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Frühe Exzerpte (1785-1800), Gesammelte Werke, 03
This volume provides a collection of early writings and excerpts from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s educational and formative years. It encompasses writings from his time in gymnasium (1785-1788), his years in Bern (1794-1796), and various undated excerpts. The contents cover philosophical reflections, pedagogical insights, definitions of central philosophical terms, and observations on European culture and…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Nürnberger Gymnasialkurse und Gymnasialreden (1808-1816), Gesammelte Werke, 10,2
In Hegel’s philosophical development, there is a decade-long gap between the foundational years in Jena (1801-1806) and the years of elaboration in Heidelberg and Berlin (1816-1831). This period includes the two Bamberg years (1807-1808), for which the few texts are already published in volumes 5 and 12 of the Gesammelte Werke, and especially the Nuremberg…
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Apperception and Self-Consciousness in Kant and German Idealism
In Apperception and Self-Consciousness in Kant and German Idealism, Dennis Schulting makes an intense analysis of the pivotal concept of self-consciousness as it evolved from Kantian philosophy through the German Idealist tradition, focusing on the notion of apperception, or the reflexive self-awareness that informs and conditions human experience. Schulting traces the intellectual trajectory from Christian…
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Kant and the Problem of Nothingness: A Latin American Study and Critique
In Kant and the Problem of Nothingness, Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla does a crucial analysis of Immanuel Kant’s concept of “nothing” through a uniquely Latin American philosophical lens, fusing the Continental tradition with a keen analysis of Kant’s metaphysics. Originally published in 1965, this work represents a pioneering study in the Spanish-speaking world, delving into the…
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Kant’s Life and Thought
Ernst Cassirer’s Kant’s Life and Thought, a seminal philosophical biography and intellectual exploration, bridges a deep understanding of Immanuel Kant’s life with a rigorous analysis of his works. For Cassirer, Kant is not merely a philosopher to be studied but a foundational figure whose ideas mark a historical inflection point in philosophy. In writing this…
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Intuition in Kant: The Boundlessness of Sense
Daniel Smyth’s Intuition in Kant: The Boundlessness of Sense offers a deep exploration of Immanuel Kant’s multifaceted conception of intuition, which Smyth presents as not merely a perceptual tool but as a crucial epistemic function that complements and enhances the intellect’s capabilities, filling gaps left by its discursive nature. By delineating intuition’s varieties—divine, receptive, sensible,…
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Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason by Theodor W. Adorno
In Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’, Theodor W. Adorno gave us a series of lectures on Immanuel Kant’s seminal work, illuminating the philosophical areas that Kant navigated and the critical repercussions of his thought on the trajectory of modern philosophy. Through a close examination of Kant’s epistemology and metaphysics, Adorno seeks to unearth the complexities…
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Between Kant and Hegel: Lectures on German Idealism
Between Kant and Hegel: Lectures on German Idealism by Dieter Henrich, edited by David S. Pacini, is a monumental contribution to the study of classical German philosophy and remains an invaluable resource for both scholars and students navigating the complexities of post-Kantian thought. The volume, distilled from Henrich’s seminal lectures at Harvard in 1973, constitutes…
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