Category Archives: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Hegel, Our Untimely Contemporary – conference with Slavoj Žižek

Posted on February 23, 2013 by stuartelden

May 10-12, 2013, The Birkbeck Institute, London – full details here (via Verso blog) Hegel is the ultimate bête noire of the last two centuries of philosophy:proponents of Lebensphilosophie, existentialists from Kierkegaard onwards, materialists, historicists, analytic philosophers and empiricists, Marxists, … Continue reading →

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Hegel et l’Afrique

Posted on February 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Actu Philosophia has an interesting piece on a study of Hegel and Africa – piece and book in French.

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Books received

Posted on February 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Mainly as recompense for review work, a good mix of old and new books, including Esposito’s Terms of the Political, Beatrice Hanssen’s Critique of Violence, Brad Evans, Liberal Terror, and a number of books by Sartre.

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Books received

Posted on January 28, 2013 by stuartelden

A couple of old translations of Hegel, Žižek’s fairly early book on Hegel, Judith Butler’s Parting Ways, Engin Isin’s Citizens without Frontiers, and Matthieu Rigoste, L’ennemi intérieur, borrowed from Gerald Moore.  

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Robert Pippin on Žižek’s Less Than Nothing

Posted on January 23, 2013 by stuartelden

A detailed and thoughtful review at Mediations – thanks to Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz for the link.

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Books received

Posted on January 15, 2013 by stuartelden

A pile of new books including six Polity titles received in recompense for review work, Tom McCarthy’s novel C, Esposito’s Living Thought, and a few by Hegel for a possible future project.

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Kant in Atlanta

Posted on January 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Between Christmas and New Year I attended a couple of days of the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division meeting in Atlanta. The main reason was for an invited session on the Reading Kant’s Geography book I co-edited with Eduardo Mendieta … Continue reading →

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Hegel’s Political Philosophy

Posted on November 23, 2012 by stuartelden

Thom Brook’s book Hegel’s Political Philosophy: A Systematic Introduction is online. A second edition is forthcoming (via The Brooks blog).

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Reading the Classics of Western Philosophy

Posted on October 9, 2012 by stuartelden

List below and survey here. The queston asked is how many of these have you read. And the whole of these books, not some, not an abbreviated form. I’m claiming 18 of these, and bits, sometimes substantial, of others. Never read any Sidgwick, Moore, … Continue reading →

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Difficult Books

Posted on August 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Publishers Weekly has a list of ten of the most difficult books to read. Heidegger and Hegel make the list, but it is dominated by fiction. Worth it, for me at least, because it links to the original list and discussion … Continue reading →

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