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My favourite academic books of 2025

A list of academic books I liked published in 2025, or late 2024, or in paperback this year. Many of the books I read this year were published years ago; some of the 2025 ones I’ve bought or have been … Continue reading

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Daniel James and Franz Knappik, Hegel and Colonialism – Cambridge University Press, October 2025 (print and open access)

Daniel James and Franz Knappik, Hegel and Colonialism – Cambridge University Press, October 2025 -print and open access This Element offers the first comprehensive study of Hegel’s views on European colonialism. In surprisingly detailed discussions scattered throughout much of his … Continue reading

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Shannon Hoff, How to Read Hegel Now – University of Chicago Press, March 2026

Shannon Hoff, How to Read Hegel Now – University of Chicago Press, March 2026 A powerful exploration of how Hegel’s ideas about freedom can speak to social injustice today. One might be forgiven for feeling that the philosophical tradition, notoriously … Continue reading

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Andrew Alexander Davis and Sebastian Rand eds., New Perspectives on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right – Bloomsbury, August 2025

Andrew Alexander Davis and Sebastian Rand eds., New Perspectives on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right – Bloomsbury, August 2025 This collection of new perspectives on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right breaks down some of the most stubborn barriers between the book and its readers. … Continue reading

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Jean Hyppolite, Studien über Marx und Hegel – ed. and trans. Thomas Ebke, Sabina Hoth and Frank Müller – Meiner Verlag, 2025

Jean Hyppolite, Studien über Marx und Hegel – ed. and trans. Thomas Ebke, Sabina Hoth and Frank Müller – Meiner Verlag, 2025 Thanks to Thomas Ebke for the information about this – he says it’s the first translation of a book … Continue reading

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Hegel 13/13 – Columbia University Centre for Contemporary Critical Thought series

The seminars at the Columbia University Centre for Contemporary Critical Thought organised by Bernard Harcourt continue with Hegel 13/13. I was able to go to several of the Marx 13/13 series earlier this year, and the larger events are usually … Continue reading

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Books received – Braudel, Wolff, Bourke, Bataille, Felsch

Some second-hand copies of Fernand Braudel, and Etienne Wolff’s Les chemins de la vie, and copies of Richard Bourke, Hegel’s World Revolutions, Georges Bataille, Critical Essays 2, and Philipp Felsch, The Summer of Theory: History of a Rebellion, 1960-1990. Wolff … Continue reading

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Alexandre Kojève, The Idea of Determinism – trans. Robert B. Williamson, St Augustine’s Press, July 2025

Alexandre Kojève, The Idea of Determinism – trans. Robert B. Williamson, St Augustine’s Press, July 2025 The previous volume of Alexandre Kojève’s (1902–1968) work published by St. Augustine’s Press, The Concept, Time and Discourse (2019), was the introduction to an unfinished magnum … Continue reading

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Alexandre Kojève, Henri Lefebvre and the translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology

This is a revised, expanded and more fully referenced version of a post from March 2024. There is a Spanish translation of the earlier version here. Alexandre Kojève’s seminars on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, given at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in … Continue reading

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Richard Bourke, Hegel’s World Revolutions – Princeton University Press, October 2023, paperback July 2025 and NDPR review

Richard Bourke, Hegel’s World Revolutions – Princeton University Press, October 2023 NDPR review by Bernardo Ferro G.W.F. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his age. Ever since, his work has shaped debates about issues as varied as religion, … Continue reading

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