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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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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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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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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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Kants Auflösung der Freiheitsantinomie oder Der unantastbare Kern des Gewissens
„Freiheit gegen Fatalismus“ beziehungsweise Freiheit gegen Determinismus – das war eines der großen, bewegenden Diskussionsthemen im Deutschland des...
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Ontologie oder Analytik des Verstandes?
Kant hat das Wort ‚Ontologie‘, genauer: das Substantiv ‚Ontologie‘ in der ganzen Kritik der reinen Vernunft, einem Werk von 928 Seiten, nur dreimal...
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Vom richtigen Umgang mit den Gedanken der Anderen
Zu unserem Dasein als Mensch gehört es von Grund auf, dass wir uns zeitlebens in dieser oder jener Form mit den Gedanken der Anderen konfrontiert...
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Kants Verankerung der Kritik im Weltbegriff
„Bis dahin ist aber der Begriff von Philosophie nur ein Schulbegriff“. „Es gibt aber noch einen Weltbegriff (conceptus cosmicus), der dieser...
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Europäische Kultur als Gesprächskultur
Der Titel des vorliegenden Beitrags lautet Europäische Kultur als Gesprächskultur. Das sieht nach einem kulturgeschichtlichen Abriss aus, der einen...
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Post-Bonnetian Naturalism
The argument of this paper is threefold: (a) Charles Bonnet’s naturalization of the principle of perfectibility (in the wake of Rousseau) is one...
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Romantic Empiricism in the Anthropocene: Unlocking A. v. Humboldt’s and F. W. J. Schelling’s Potential for the Environmental Humanities
With the proclamation of a new geochronological age called the ‘Anthropocene’, it is now made abundantly clear that humankind has become the most...
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‘All is Act, Movement, and Life’: Fichte’s Idealism as Immortalism
In the Vocation of Man, Fichte makes the striking claim that life is eternal, rational, our true being, and the final cause of nature in general and...
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Reading Strategies for Hegel, Marx, and Laozi
The book begins with an explanation of the divergent reading strategies to be employed in reading its main antagonist (Hegel) and protagonists (Marx...
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Praxis: Scientific Discursive Employment of Concepts
Marx and his materialism are introduced through his early engagement with Epicurus and the mereology of materialism. Marx is presented as using...
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Hegel’s Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century France: Charles Bénard’s Translation and Its Reception
Between 1840 and 1851 Charles BénardBénard, Charles published a four-volume translation of Hegel’s Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik entitled Cours...
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The Physical Body and Its Role in Hegel’s Mature Ethical Theory
Much attention has been paid to the role that Hegel, in his mature ethical theory, attributes to what he calls the social or political body i.e. to...
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Hegel’s Theory of Space-Time (No, Not That Space-Time)
Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature begins with the concepts of space and time, and all of the concepts and phenomena that follow in the text are...
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Biographical Glossary
A register of names, dates and brief biographical details to orient the reader in an introductory manner through the constellation of figures...
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The Reception of German Philosophy in the Mind of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
In opposition to MarxMarx, Karl’s polemical criticism of ProudhonProudhon, Pierre-Joseph’s abuse of Hegelian thought, this study shows—on the basis...
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The Aesthetics of Architectural Style
Lukács is not alone is singling out architecture for a special attachment to universal “social” interests and a corresponding adherence to artistic...