Category Archives: Immanuel Kant

Berfrois articles – a complete archive of my pieces for this much-missed site

Between 2011 and 2022 I wrote eleven pieces for the much-missed Berfrois site. Most were reviews of recent books. Although the site closed to new submissions in 2022, I thought the archive would be preserved. I was therefore disappointed to … Continue reading

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Berfrois articles – an archive of my pieces for this much-missed site

Between 2011 and 2022 I wrote eleven pieces for the much-missed Berfrois site. Most were reviews of recent books. Although the site closed to new submissions in 2022, I thought the archive would be preserved. I was therefore disappointed to … 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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Andrew Cooper, Kant and the Transformation of Natural History – Oxford University Press, September 2023 and NDPR review

Andrew Cooper, Kant and the Transformation of Natural History – Oxford University Press, September 2023 I’ve shared this book before; there is now a NDPR review by Steve Naragon Andrew Cooper presents the first systematic study of Kant’s account of … 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 and review at NDPR

Robert B. Pippin, The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism and the Fate of Philosophy – University of Chicago Press, January 2024 review at NDPR by Sebastian Gardner A provocative reassessment of Heidegger’s critique of German Idealism from one of the tradition’s … Continue reading

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G. Anthony Bruno, Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant – Oxford University Press, March 2025

G. Anthony Bruno, Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant – Oxford University Press, March 2025 Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant is the first history of the concept of facticity. G. Anthony Bruno argues that this concept’s … Continue reading

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Robert Lucas Scott, Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique – University of Chicago Press, March 2025

Robert Lucas Scott, Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique – University of Chicago Press, March 2025 The relationship between Hegel and literary theory has for a long time been both contested and paradoxical. On the one hand, “theory” is often skeptical … Continue reading

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Immanuel Kant’s 300th birthday – and some thoughts on Elden and Mendieta (eds.), Reading Kant’s Geography (2011)

It’s Immanuel Kant’s 300th birthday today. I’ve not written much on Kant, but he was the topic of perhaps my favourite of the essay collections I’ve edited or co-edited – Stuart Elden and Eduardo Mendieta (eds.), Reading Kant’s Geography, SUNY … 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

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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Alexandre Kojève, Kant, trans. Hager Weslati – Verso, May 2024

Alexandre Kojève, Kant, trans. Hager Weslati – Verso, May 2024 The French publication was with Gallimard in 1973. Kant forms the centerpiece of Alexandre Kojeve’s intriguing discovery of objective reality and its repressed history in Western philosophy During the early … Continue reading

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