Tag: metaphysics
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Heidegger’s Polemos: From Being to Politics
Heidegger’s Polemos: From Being to Politics undertakes a single, exceptionally focused wager: that the most coherent path through Heidegger’s ontology and into his politics runs by way of a reinterpreted polemos—not as mere “war,” but as Auseinandersetzung, a formative confrontation in which beings, worlds, and peoples are set out and apart, disclosed, and bound to…
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Appropriating Heidegger
The distinctive claim of Appropriating Heidegger is that disagreement about Heidegger’s importance and the sense of his project can itself be made methodologically fruitful once it is gathered, displayed, and argued as a field of presuppositions at work in reading. The volume’s editors stage precisely such a field: they solicit positions whose divergences do not…
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Heidegger’s Temporal Idealism
Heidegger’s Temporal Idealism advances a rigorous, intricately argued reconstruction of the temporal architecture at work in Being and Time, and wagers a precise thesis: time as ordinarily understood arises from, and is dependent upon, a more basic manifold—originary temporality—that is constitutive of Dasein’s being. Blattner’s distinctive contribution is to treat this wager as a systematic…
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Freiheit: Stuttgarter Hegel-Kongress 2011
The volume’s distinctive scholarly stake is to specify freedom as a determinate field of conceptual tensions rather than as a settled datum, and to test Hegel’s resources for clarifying those tensions in contemporary registers—nature and second nature, art and imagination, determinism and time, autonomy and law, civil society and market, right and trust, emancipation and…
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Hegel and Legal Theory
Hegel and Legal Theory announces its scholarly stake with rare clarity: it gathers a set of tightly argued interventions—composed around a law-faculty conference frame and reworked into essays—that take Hegel’s Philosophy of Right as a systematic resource for re-thinking the juridical in its full relational breadth, from abstract right and personhood through morality and ethical…
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‘Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning)’ by Martin Heidegger
English translation of Beiträge zur Philosophie GA 65. Heidegger’s second most important work, this book was written during the 1930s but did not become available to the public until 1989. This volume’s distinctive scholarly stake lies in showing how a thinking “from” enowning (Heidegger’s Ereignis) must be enacted rather than reported, and how that enactment…
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‘Martin Heidegger at Eighty’ by Hannah Arendt
Martin Heidegger’s eightieth birthday was also the fiftieth anniversary of his public life, which he began not as an author—though he had already published a book on Duns Scotus—but as a university teacher. In barely three or four years since that first solid and interesting but still rather conventional study, he had become so different…
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The Role of Mood in Heidegger’s Ontology
The Role of Mood in Heidegger’s Ontology makes a precise and ambitious scholarly wager: if one follows Heidegger’s phenomenological-ontological method to its roots, then mood—formally thematized as Befindlichkeit (situatedness)—must be read as a constitutive condition of how human existence (Dasein) is first opened up to itself and its world. Bruce W. Ballard’s distinctive contribution is…
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After Heidegger?
After Heidegger? stakes its claim with uncommon precision: it assembles a deliberately heterogeneous forum of accomplished interlocutors to test whether Heidegger’s thought still provides living questions that can be taken up as one’s own in a philosophically responsible way under conditions shaped by new disclosures—above all the Black Notebooks—and by contemporary exigencies that he neither…
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The Question Concerning Techno-Capitalism: Žižek & Heidegger
This book contends, with unusual precision, that Žižek’s corpus becomes intelligible when read as a sustained, immanent confrontation with Heidegger’s finitude and its afterlife in the “question concerning technology,” and that the motor of Žižek’s oeuvre is a structurally unresolved tension between a historicist diagnosis of techno-capitalist ideology and a trans-historic theory of the revolutionary…
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A Heidegger Seminar on Hegel’s Differenzschrift
In 1958, Heidegger delivered the lecture “Hegel and the Greeks” at the University of Aix-en-Provence. At the invitation of the poet René Char, he later returned to Provence in 1966, 1968, and 1969 to conduct small, intensive seminars in the village of Le Thor with a circle of French philosophers that included Jean Beaufret and…
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Hegel: System of Ethical Life and First Philosophy of Spirit
Hegel’s System of Ethical Life (1802/3) and First Philosophy of Spirit (Part III of the System of Speculative Philosophy 1803/04) is the earliest surviving work in which spirit is prised from natural embeddedness and made to show itself as a self-moving ethical whole; its distinctive stake is to exhibit, in a rigorously economical manuscript logic,…
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Hegel and Greek Thought
Hegel and Greek Thought frames a precise scholarly stake: it reconstructs, with methodical restraint and conceptual reach, how Hegel’s historical-philosophical imagination seizes upon the Greek world to clarify its own norms of reason, freedom, art, religion, and political life, and how this appropriation in turn reorganizes Hegel’s judgment of modern civilization. Its distinctive contribution lies…
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Hegel: The Restlessness Of The Negative
Nancy’s slender book sets itself a very large philosophical task: to exhibit a Hegel whose system breathes as restlessness rather than closure, whose “absolute” is not a perched result but the immanent motion of self-relation, whose politics opens not onto an apparatus of sovereignty but onto the exposed spacing in which being-in-common occurs. Its distinctive…
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
The Philosophy of Right develops a precise claim: to exhibit right as the actuality of freedom, to show how freedom—no mere predicate of the subject but the subject’s own substantial form—realizes itself through the determinate institutions of ethical life. Its distinctive contribution is methodological as much as doctrinal: it refuses both the empiricist compilation of…
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Karl Marx’s Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy Of Right
Karl Marx’s Critique of Hegel’s ‘Philosophy of Right’ is a pivotal work in his early intellectual evolution, capturing both his engagement with and his divergence from the German idealist tradition embodied by Hegel. This work, representing Marx’s first extensive confrontation with Hegel’s political philosophy, marks the beginnings of his endeavor to unravel the delicate bonds…
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, with Marx’s Commentary: A Handbook for Students
The distinctive scholarly stake of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, with Marx’s Commentary: A Handbook for Students lies in its patient reconstruction of the inner articulation of Hegel’s political philosophy together with a running, text-bound staging of Marx’s youthful “transformative criticism.” The contribution is double: first, the book renders Hegel’s system of right as a living…
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Hegel in a Wired Brain
In Hegel in a Wired Brain, Slavoj Žižek approaches G.W.F. Hegel not as a relic preserved behind the glass of intellectual history rather than as a thinker whose conceptual architecture continues to shape the space in which we now attempt to understand our own technological transformation. Published to mark the 250th anniversary of Hegel’s birth,…
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Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique
Scott’s Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique stakes a precise claim: the only adequate way to “use” Hegel for literary study is to let Hegel’s own writing transform what reading is—so that interpretation must be practiced as speculative experience rather than applied as a detachable method. Across a preface of theses, an introduction that situates the…
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‘German Philosophy: A Dialogue’ by Alain Badiou & Jean-Luc Nancy
German Philosophy: A Dialogue stakes a precise claim: that a contemporary reckoning with the German tradition can be staged as a rigorously philosophical dialogue whose method is neither commentary nor synoptic lecture, but the testing of concepts at their points of maximal tension where France and Germany have historically intersected. Badiou and Nancy submit the…
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The Philosophy of Hegel
Hinging its scholarly wager on modernity as a problem that demands both conceptual reconstruction and historical self-comprehension, Allen Speight’s The Philosophy of Hegel advances a precise contribution: it restores the methodological nerve of Hegel’s project by threading together the diagnostic force of the early Jena writings, the argumentatively staged itinerary of the Phenomenology of Spirit,…
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Of an Alien Homecoming: Reading Heidegger’s “Hölderlin”
This study establishes, with unusual steadiness and reach, how the problem of homecoming under estrangement becomes the pivotal relay between Heidegger’s thinking and Hölderlin’s poetizing across the decisive years 1934–1948. Its distinctive contribution lies in reconstructing the inner logic by which figures of journeying, the river, the withheld homeland, and the passage through the foreign…
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Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, Volume II: The Lectures of 1830–1831
Hodgson’s edition and Brown’s translation of Hegel’s 1830–1831 Lectures on the Philosophy of World History stake a precise claim: they deliver Hegel’s last, most worked-through public articulation of how world history can be grasped as rational—neither as an imposed schema nor as a string of contingencies—by reconstructing the movement whereby spirit comes to know itself…
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Hegel’s Rabble: An Investigation into Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
Frank Ruda’s Hegel’s Rabble: An Investigation into Hegel’s Philosophy of Right proposes that the seemingly marginal figure of “the rabble” is not an incidental social pathology but the pressure point at which Hegel’s entire political architecture—civil society, the state, and the ethical life that binds them—reveals its internal limit. The book’s distinctive contribution lies in…
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Cogito and the Unconscious
The volume advances a precise wager: that the most stringent account of the unconscious in the wake of Freud emerges when the Cartesian cogito is treated neither as a worn emblem of transparent self-presence nor as a quaint philosophical fossil, but as a shibboleth that divides conceptual labor and tests the rigor of method. Its…
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‘The Unconscious’ by Sigmund Freud
Freud’s The Unconscious stakes a rigorously delimited claim within the metapsychological project: to sort, with clinical economy and conceptual pressure, the diverse meanings of unconscious and to anchor them to an evidential grammar—dream-work, symptom-formation, slips, fetishistic substitutions, ambivalence of the drives, and the economy of repression—so that the psyche’s most elusive processes can be specified…
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The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing
The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing advances a precise scholarly wager and distinctive intervention. It argues that the figure most often treated as the mystical excrescence of Hegel’s edifice—absolute knowing—is the structurally exacting nerve of his rational project; and it proposes that this nerve becomes legible only when Hegel is read to the letter,…
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Becoming Nietzsche: Early Reflections on Democritus, Schopenhauer, and Kant
Paul A. Swift’s Becoming Nietzsche: Early Reflections on Democritus, Schopenhauer, and Kant advances a precise scholarly claim: that the conceptual profile of the young Nietzsche between 1866 and 1868 is legible as a disciplined set of problems and methods forged through sustained confrontation with three different figures—Democritus, Schopenhauer, and Kant—and that these confrontations yield determinate…
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‘Nietzsche’ by Martin Heidegger | 4 Volumes
Heidegger’s four-volume Nietzsche undertakes a rigorous, philologically attentive, and architectonically ambitious determination of Nietzsche’s position within the history of Western metaphysics. Its distinctive scholarly stake lies in showing how the triad will to power–eternal recurrence of the same–revaluation of values coheres as a single meta-conceptual decision about beings as a whole, one that consummates metaphysics…
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The Collected Works of Karl Marx & Frederick Engels (MECW)
The Marx/Engels Collected Works (MECW) is an unparalleled compendium of the intellectual legacy and revolutionary spirit of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, extending from the early years of their careers in 1835 through to Engels’ death in 1895. This monumental collection, spanning fifty volumes, represents the most extensive and comprehensive translation into English of their…
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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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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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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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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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‘On the Suffering of the World’ by Arthur Schopenhauer
Schopenhauer’s On the Suffering of the World—here in R. J. Hollingdale’s compact Penguin Great Ideas selection—stakes a precise claim: the phenomena of human unhappiness, restless striving, and the volatility of time can be explained coherently only when life is grasped as the appearance of a unitary, blind will (Wille) that is neither rational nor teleological.…
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‘Schopenhauer’ by Patrick Gardiner
The distinctive contribution of Patrick L. Gardiner’s Schopenhauer resides in its patient reconstruction of a whole philosophical economy—source, method, scope, and limit—through which Schopenhauer’s scattered themes merge into a single, exacting proposal about what metaphysical inquiry can mean after Kant. Gardiner’s stake is twofold: to recover a disciplined, non-romantic Schopenhauer whose system grows from problems…
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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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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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Kant’s Early Critics: The Empiricist Critique of the Theoretical Philosophy
The distinction of Kant’s Early Critics: The Empiricist Critique of the Theoretical Philosophy lies in its reconstruction—through first-time English translations and a programmatic editorial introduction—of the earliest, empiricist-leaning attempts to read, resist, and retool the Critique of Pure Reason between 1781 and 1789. Sassen’s scholarly stake is not merely curatorial. By arranging reviews, essays, and…
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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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