Category Archives: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Fernanda Gallo, Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900 – Cambridge University Press, September 2024

Posted on May 10, 2024 by stuartelden

Fernanda Gallo, Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900 – Cambridge University Press, September 2024 update May 2025: New Books network discussion with Lily Goren Across Italy in the nineteenth century, a generation of intellectuals engaged with … Continue reading →

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

Posted on March 5, 2024 by stuartelden

A revised and expanded version of this post is here as part of the Sunday histories series. Alexandre Kojève’s seminars on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, given at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in the years before the Second World War, … Continue reading →

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Robert B. Pippin, The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism and the Fate of Philosophy – University of Chicago Press, January 2024

Posted on March 3, 2024 by stuartelden

Robert B. Pippin, The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism and the Fate of Philosophy – University of Chicago Press, January 2024 A provocative reassessment of Heidegger’s critique of German Idealism from one of the tradition’s foremost interpreters. Heidegger claimed that Western … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, La constitution d’un transcendantal historique dans la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel: Mémoire du diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie – Vrin, February 2024

Posted on February 8, 2024 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, La constitution d’un transcendantal historique dans la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel: Mémoire du diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie – Vrin, February 2024 Le 11 juin 1949, Foucault soutient en Sorbonne son mémoire de diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie … Continue reading →

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Richard Bourke, Hegel’s World Revolutions – Princeton University Press, October 2023

Posted on October 18, 2023 by stuartelden

Richard Bourke, Hegel’s World Revolutions – Princeton University Press, October 2023 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, aesthetics and metaphysics. His most … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre’s 1939 book on Nietzsche and the ‘Liste Otto’ – which books of his were banned?

Posted on July 3, 2023 by stuartelden

Update June 2025: a revised and expanded version of this post is here. About twenty years ago, in an essay on Henri Lefebvre, I said that his book on Nietzsche (1939) was on the prohibited ‘Liste Otto’. These were books … Continue reading →

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Theory, Culture and Society Special Issue: ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France’ – *open access until mid-June*

Posted on June 9, 2023 by stuartelden

Theory, Culture and Society Special Issue: ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France‘, edited by Stuart Elden, Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini A reminder that all papers are open access until mid June 2023 – after that date only a few … Continue reading →

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G.W.F. Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Right, 1819-1820, trans. Alan Brudner, University of Toronto Press, April 2023

Posted on June 4, 2023 by stuartelden

G.W.F. Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Right, 1819-1820, trans. Alan Brudner, University of Toronto Press, April 2023 very expensive… Published in 1821, Outlines of the Philosophy of Right is considered the definitive articulation of the legal, moral, social, and political philosophy … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2022

Posted on December 30, 2022 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021). The criteria was simply that they were published in that year (or late the previous year), and that I read and appreciated them. … Continue reading →

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Sally Sedgwick, Time and History in Hegelian Thought and Spirit – Oxford University Press, March 2023

Posted on December 21, 2022 by stuartelden

Sally Sedgwick, Time and History in Hegelian Thought and Spirit – Oxford University Press, March 2023 Just an expensive hardback listed at the moment, unfortunately. Time and History in Hegelian Thought and Spirit examines a conspicuous feature of Hegel’s major works: … Continue reading →

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