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On the Art of Tragedy (1792)
In contrast to the essay On the Cause of the Pleasure we derive from Tragic Objects, which was still focused on the notion of effect poetics, the...
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Schiller’s Horen, Humboldt’s Rhodian Genius, and the Development of Physiological Ideas in Mythical Form
Millán Brusslan focuses upon “Life Force or the Rhodian Genius: A Tale,” an essay Humboldt wrote for Schiller’s journal, Die Horen, to demonstrate...
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Schiller’s Philosophy of History
Schiller’s philosophy of history has received comparatively little attention. This is partly because Schiller is perceived as a poor imitation of...
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On the Cause of the Pleasure We Derive from Tragic Objects (1792)
Zelle offers a concise analysis of Schiller’s essay On the Cause of the Pleasure We Derive from Tragic Objects (1792). Zelle emphasises that the...
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Hegel’s Metaphilosophy of Idealism
This book reads Marx’s materialism as a dialectical negation of Hegel’s idealism, which cannot be articulated without contrast to Hegel. A...
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“True Life Is Only in Death.” On Rejecting Life and Nature in Romanticism (Fichte, Novalis, Schlegel)
The article presents the cosmological ideas in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason as a starting point for a modern discussion of the possibility of the...
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Gattungswesen and Universality: Feuerbach, Marx and German Idealism
The concept Gattungswesen, while evidently central to Marx’s early thought, has received surprisingly little detailed philosophical examination. An...
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The State as Second Nature in Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism
This essay reconstructs Schelling’s account of the state as second nature and accordingly as an objective ground of human freedom in the System of...
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Wuzhi and Wuwei: The Aesthetic Mimetic Employment of Concepts
Arguments from Schelling, Feuerbach, and Adorno are appealed to in a materialist refutation of Hegel’s idealism. The refutation comes to the point...
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Marx and Laozi’s Ethical Naturalisms
This chapter will construct arguments from Marx’s scientific humanist ethical naturalism and Laozi’s aesthetic, anti-humanist ethical naturalism....
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An Anti-conceptualist Reconstruction of Laozi
According to Hegel’s idealist conception of philosophy, Laozi really isn’t doing any useful philosophy, even though Hegel himself failed to identify...
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Second Nature and Self-Determination in Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit
This paper offers a reading of key passages in Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit, which can serve as the basis for an argument to discuss the shortcomings...
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Kant and Biological Theory
Over the past few decades, philosophers of biology have debated the need for a revised evolutionary synthesis that could integrate the causal...
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Conclusion
In the conclusion the taiji will be introduced and Marx and Laozi will be attached to each of the glyphs on it; Marx white, Laozi black. The book...
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Beyond Naturalism, Spiritualism and Finite Idealism: Hegel on the Relationship Between Metaphysical Truth, Nature and Mind
Despite his commitment to universal explicability, a case can be made that Hegel is better labelled an idealist than a naturalist. As an analysis of...
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Scientism as Ideology; Speculative Naturalism as Qualified Decoloniality
My aim in this chapter is argue that aspects of Hegel’s metaphysics, as an example of ‘speculative naturalism’, can and should be seen as offering a...
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“Inadmissible Application”: Some Notes on Causality and Life in Hegel
In this paper, I will interpret a short passage from Hegel’s Doctrine of Essence on the relation between causality and life. In this passage, Hegel...
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Language
This chapter stages a confrontation between various post-structuralist materialisms of language and German Idealist naturalisms by way of two case...
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Apocalypse
G. W. F. Hegel and Jacques Derrida are true masters of a carefully mediated messianic political theology, and what they share is a utilization of the...
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Reading Kant
This chapter focuses on Jacques Derrida’s forty-year engagement with Kant. Giving Kant a significant place in the early formulation of deconstruction...