Tag: metaphysics
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Logics of Worlds
Logics of Worlds tries to determine how truths—grasped there in their ontological type—appear, persist, and acquire objective traction within determinate worlds. Badiou’s distinctive contribution is to force a systematic passage from ontology to a logic of appearing that is neither a psychology of experience nor a semantics of reference, but an objective, formally articulated doctrine…
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‘Early Greek Thinking: The Dawn of Western Philosophy’ by Martin Heidegger
Early Greek Thinking: The Dawn of Western Philosophy relocates the earliest Greek fragments into an ontological field in which language, presencing, and concealment form a single, problem-laden scene of truth. Its distinctive contribution lies in showing how Anaximander, Heraclitus, and Parmenides name an inaugural configuration of Being as presencing (Anwesen understood dynamically), and how that…
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Shadows of Being: Encounters with Heidegger in Political Theory and Historical Reflection
Shadows of Being: Encounters with Heidegger in Political Theory and Historical Reflection tests Heidegger’s claim to have restored philosophy to what is genuinely fundamental by submitting that claim to the tribunal of ethico-political judgment and historically situated reflection, rather than allowing it to rest on Heidegger’s own self-interpretation. Jeffrey Andrew Barash’s contribution lies in a…
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Hegel and the Representative Constitution
Hegel and the Representative Constitution asks how to read Hegel’s mature political philosophy: as a historically situated, source-responsive intervention into the post-Napoleonic “constitutional question,” whose argumentative core concerns the conditions under which constitutional monarchy, popular participation, and the unity of state powers can be coherently articulated. Elias Buchetmann’s distinctive contribution lies in reconstructing, with unusual…
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Hegel’s Philosophy of World History
Hegel’s Philosophy of World History stakes a claim that remains singular in the tradition: it proposes that world history is intelligible as a self-unfolding rational whole whose intelligibility is neither an external schema imposed upon events nor an empirical generalization from them, but the inner movement by which freedom becomes actual in institutions, consciousness, and…
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‘Introduction to the Philosophy of History’ by Georg W. F. Hegel
Hegel’s Introduction to the Philosophy of History makes a precise methodologically abrasive claim: world history, approached philosophically, permits an account in which the intelligibility of the whole can be rendered as a determinate logic of freedom without dissolving the empirical thickness of events into mere exempla. In this edition’s careful construction—framed by a translator’s contextual…
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Young Schopenhauer: The Origin of the Metaphysics of Will and its Aporias
Young Schopenhauer: The Origin of the Metaphysics of Will and its Aporias reconstructs, with exceptional conceptual rigor, the emergence of Schopenhauer’s philosophy from its earliest pietistic, aesthetic, and critical sediments to the fully articulated metaphysics of will, while simultaneously exposing the inner aporetic structure that this metaphysics both produces and inherits. Its distinctive scholarly stake…
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Hegel on Abstraction
Simon Gros’s unfinished book Hegel on Abstraction stakes out a precise scholarly intervention by treating “abstraction” neither as a mere slogan for “thin universals” nor as a detachable keyword whose meaning can be stabilized by dictionary definition, but as a repeatedly refunctionalized operator whose sense shifts with Hegel’s changing tasks: logical determination, methodological beginning, social-moral…
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The Idea of the Good in Kant and Hegel
The Idea of the Good in Kant and Hegel repositions “the good” as a systematic load-bearing concept in classical German philosophy, arguing—through a deliberately cross-disciplinary set of studies—that the good functions as a structural principle spanning logic, ontology, practical reason, and social reality, and that its persistent entanglement with “evil” belongs to its very intelligibility…
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Schelling’s Late Philosophy in Confrontation with Hegel
Peter Dews’ Schelling’s Late Philosophy in Confrontation with Hegel undertakes a rare kind of reconstruction: it treats Schelling’s late, notoriously recalcitrant system as a philosophically accountable project whose guiding distinctions, inferential pivots, and historical narratives can be made explicit without being flattened into mere intellectual biography or reduced to a set of anti-Hegelian gestures. The…
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Thought Poems: A Translation of Heidegger’s Verse
Thought Poems: A Translation of Heidegger’s Verse stakes a very precise claim in Heidegger scholarship: it establishes volume 81 of the Gesamtausgabe—Gedachtes—as a central laboratory of Heidegger’s late thinking, by presenting for the first time in English the entire corpus of what Heidegger names “thought-poems,” together with the early poems, intimate letters, and scattered fragments…
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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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Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real
The book’s wager is that the most precise way to think the relation between Beckett’s late prose and Lacan’s late teaching passes through mathematics understood as a mode of writing. Its distinctive contribution is to displace familiar topoi of “Beckett and psychoanalysis” or “Beckett and modernism” by constructing a very closely linked three-term configuration in…
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The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
Capitalism, in Ellen Meiksins Wood’s account, acquires determinate form within history rather than it being a timeless inevitability. The distinctive stake of The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View is to replace narratives of smooth “commercial evolution” with a precise specification of the social property relations that generated uniquely capitalist imperatives—market dependence, competitive accumulation, systematic…
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Lorenzo Vinciguerra presents ‘Spinoza: The Prophet and the Sign’
Lorenzo Vinciguerra offers a systematic reading of Spinoza’s critique of prophecy, scriptural interpretation, and the regime of signs by placing these themes at the centre of Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise and relating them to the broader architecture of the Ethics. Beginning from Spinoza’s formal definition of prophecy as a kind of sure knowledge revealed by God…
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‘Parmenides ’ by Martin Heidegger
Parmenides, the lecture course Martin Heidegger delivered at the University of Freiburg in 1942–1943, stages a decisive and at times unsettling confrontation with the inception of Western thinking. Far from offering a merely historical commentary on a pre-Socratic text, Heidegger treats Parmenides’ so-called didactic poem as a privileged site where the primordial experience of truth…
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Thinking in the Light of Time: Heidegger’s Encounter with Hegel
Karin de Boer’s Thinking in the Light of Time: Heidegger’s Encounter with Hegel proposes a tightly structured and quietly ambitious thesis: that the inner unity of Heidegger’s work, early and late, can be made visible if one takes temporality as the guiding thread, and that this same thread allows a renewed, more exact account of…
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‘The Beginning of Western Philosophy: Interpretation of Anaximander and Parmenides’ by Martin Heidegger
The distinctive contribution of The Beginning of Western Philosophy lies in its rigorous presentation of an inaugural confrontation between Heidegger’s post–Being and Time reorientation toward the question of Beyng and the earliest preserved articulations in Greek thought that first ventured to let “beings as a whole” emerge into question. Through a close, philologically attentive yet…
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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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Companion to Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy
The Companion to Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy stakes a precise claim within Heidegger studies: it offers a set of disciplined, conceptually discriminating paths for entering the fugally composed terrain of Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis), together with a patient reconstruction of the book’s internal motors—its experimental diction, its composerly sequencing, and its demand that thinking…
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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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Contexts of Suffering: A Heideggerian Approach to Psychopathology
Contexts of Suffering: A Heideggerian Approach to Psychopathology presents a rigorous phenomenological and hermeneutic reorientation of psychiatric understanding that challenges the dominance of contemporary biopsychiatry while remaining clinically attuned and methodologically exacting. Its distinctive stake is twofold: to articulate how mental illness manifests as disruptions within the constitutive structures of human existence—mooded attunement, embodiment, spatiality,…
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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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‘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 and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit
The distinctive contribution of Heidegger and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit is to relocate the will—willing, deferred willing, covert willing, and the possibility of non-willing—at the very center of Heidegger’s path of thought, and to do so by reconstructing the movement of that path from within Heidegger’s own texts. It shows that the…
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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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