Tag: religion
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Hegel and the State
Franz Rosenzweig’s Hegel and the State (1920; first English translation 2024) is far more than an erudite study of Hegel’s political thought; it is a monumental philosophical biography, a tragic historical meditation, and an intellectual reckoning with the failure of German idealism’s promise when confronted with the realities of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century politics. Written…
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Hegel and the Philosophy of Right
Dudley Knowles’ Hegel and the Philosophy of Right is one of the most sustained and philosophically rigorous engagements with Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, a work that itself remains among the most complex statements of modern political philosophy. The Philosophy of Right is notorious both for its forbidding prose and for the controversies it has generated:…
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Herder on Nationality, Humanity, and History
To describe Frederick M. Barnard’s Herder on Nationality, Humanity, and History is to chart a work that treats Johann Gottfried Herder not merely as a source of quotable slogans about Volk, language, and culture, but as an architect of a supple vision in which the formative powers of a people’s speech, memory, and art are…
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Herder’s Essay on Being: A Translation and Critical Approaches
Herder’s Essay on Being: A Translation and Critical Approaches, edited by John K. Noyes, is a landmark publication that makes accessible for the first time in English Johann Gottfried Herder’s Versuch über das Sein (Essay on Being), a youthful but philosophically decisive text from 1763–64. Long overshadowed by the commanding figure of Kant, Herder has…
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Alexandre Kojève’s Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit
Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit stands as one of the twentieth century’s rare philosophical milestones, a work that both revived and reoriented an entire French understanding of Hegel’s magnum opus. Born in the ferment of pre‑World War II Paris, these lectures—delivered by Alexandre Kojève between 1933 and 1939…
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Philosophy without Foundations: Rethinking Hegel
Philosophy without Foundations: Rethinking Hegel by William Maker is an unrelenting philosophical treatise that boldly seeks to dismantle the inherited caricatures of Hegel as a metaphysical absolutist and dogmatic systematizer by rereading him through the prism of contemporary antifoundationalist critique. In a rigorous and sustained engagement with both the tradition of German Idealism and the…
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Hegel in Wien: Eine Ringvorlesung zu Hegels Rechtsphilosophie am Wiener Juridicum
Hegel in Wien: Eine Ringvorlesung zu Hegels Rechtsphilosophie am Wiener Juridicum, edited by Linda Lilith Obermayr and Alexander Somek, is a monument of commemorative and exegetical scholarship that embodies not merely a retrospective academic gesture toward the bicentennial of the first publication of Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts (1821), but also the reactivation of the…
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The Science of Spirit: Emergence of the New Logic
PREFACE Over the last twenty-five years, the very ground on which we conduct philosophy has been torn open and reshaped. What once seemed an immutable landscape of neat categories and settled doctrines now reveals itself as a living, breathing field of conceptual forces in continual motion. Thought has turned its gaze inward, no longer willing…
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Hegel’s Studies & Four Sermons (1792-1794) With Explanatory Footnotes
Table of Contents Four Sermons (1792–1793)First SermonSecond SermonThird SermonFourth Sermon Studies (1792/93–1794)In What Respect Is Religion…But the Principle Material…Our Tradition…Already in the Architecture…Religion Is One of the Most Important Matters…Aside from Oral Instruction…It Cannot Be Denied…The Constitutions of States…How Little Objective Religion…Public Authority…On the Difference in the Scene of DeathOn Objective Religion…It Would Be a…
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Hegel’s Works from the Gymnasium Years (1785–1788) With Explanatory Footnotes
Contents: Works from the Gymnasium Years: An Essay from the Tübingen Seminary (1785–1788)Conversation Between Three PersonsSome Remarks on the Representation of MagnitudeOn the Religion of the Greeks and RomansOn Some Characteristic Differences Among the Ancient PoetsFrom a Speech Given at Graduation Upon Leaving from the GymnasiumOn Some Benefits We Gain from Reading the Classical Greek…
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Kant and the Problem of Nothingness: A Latin American Study and Critique
Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla’s Kant and the Problem of Nothingness, recently translated into English by Addison Ellis, marks a pivotal recovery of a neglected yet profoundly original philosophical voice from Latin America. Originally published in 1965, Mayz Vallenilla’s text undertakes a systematic investigation of the concept of nothing (nada) within the architecture of Kant’s Critique of…
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Welt und Zeit—Of the Abyss & the Void, 20:27—22. February 2025
In the tremors of our contemporary world, where the horizon of certainty has fractured under the weight of unprecedented shifts, one confronts two primordial dimensions that shape every aspect of existence: the abyss and the void. The two, at once unsettling and generative, stand at the heart of the human project, calling into question the…
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‘Statement on the True Relationship of the Philosophy of Nature to the Revised Fichtean Doctrine: An Elucidation of the Former’ by F. W. J. Schelling
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling’s Statement on the True Relationship of the Philosophy of Nature to the Revised Fichtean Doctrine is an impassioned philosophical treatise that encapsulates Schelling’s ultimate confrontation with Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Composed in 1806, this work stands not only as Schelling’s final major engagement with the philosophy of nature but also as a…
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Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Table of Contents SYSTEM OF SCIENCE. FIRST PART,THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT CONTENTS APPENDICES EDITORIAL NOTES SYSTEM OF SCIENCEbyGe. Wilh. Fr. Hegel,Doctor and Professor of Philosophy in Jena,Assessor of the Ducal Mineralogical Society there,and Member of other learned societies. First Part,The Phenomenology of Spirit. Bamberg and Würzburg,Published by Joseph Anton Goebhardt,1807 CONTENTS. Preface: On Scientific Knowledge.…
Simon Gros 