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Felix Culpa, Dialectic and Becoming-Imperceptible
Deleuze’s sense of the history of philosophy in Difference and Repetition is manifestly agonistic and counter-dialectic. Against a history of...
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Nishitani Keiji and the Nihility of the Christian Cross: On the Dialectic of Imitation and Worship
Nishitani Keiji elaborated the celebrated concept of nihility (虚無) in his seminal work Religion and Nothingness . In this paper, I discuss this...
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The Mundane Dialectic of Enlightenment: Typification as Everyday Identity Thinking
To make Adorno’s difficult notion of “identity thinking” more amendable to sociological research, this project brings his Negative Dialectics into...
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Normativity, Autonomy, and Agency: A Critical Review of Three Essays on Agency in Nature, and a Modest Proposal for the Road Ahead
Has the renewal of interest in the ostensible agency of living beings signaled an advance from a merely heuristic Kantian sense of purposiveness to...
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The Trieb of Dialectic: Systematic and Thematic Extension of the Concept of Trieb in Hegel
This chapter examines the systematic and thematic extension that the concept of Trieb receives in Hegel’s mature philosophy, that is, throughout a...
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“The Logic of Species”: A Translation of Tosaka Jun’s Commentary on Tanabe Hajime
In this translation of his 1936 essay, Tosaka Jun critically examines Tanabe Hajime’s “logic of species,” paying particular attention to its basis,...
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Motion as Phenomenal Contradiction (Hegel)
The example of the negative, as the ‘principle of all self-movement’, shows that immanent critique does not actually need an idealist reconciliation...
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Crossroads of forgiveness: a transcendent understanding of forgiveness in Kierkegaard’s religious writings and immanent account of forgiveness in contemporary secular and Christian ethics
This paper is an attempt to clash the problem of forgiveness as formulated in contemporary secular and Christian ethics with Kierkegaard’s...
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Moving Beyond Hegel: The Paradox of Immanent Freedom in Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy
This paper explores Simone de Beauvoir’s response to G. W. F. Hegel’s formulation of freedom. In The Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel describes freedom...
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Method in Hegel’s Dialectic-Speculative Logic
This chapter addresses the specific novelty of Hegel’s dialectic-speculative logic in relation to traditional general logic and to Kant’s...
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The Dialectic Between Manifest and Scientific Image in the Wake of Weberian Disenchantment
In this chapter, I show how Sellars sees the manifest and the scientific image as critical metaphilosophical concepts capable of throwing light on...
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Reading Dialectic of Enlightenment
This chapter offers a synopsis of Dialectic of Enlightenment. Obviously, in a text that is arguing there are different ways that Horkheimer and...
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Negativity in Cassirer: On the Scope and Limits of a Hegelian Reading of The Philosophy of the Symbolic Forms
Negativity is a crucial term in Classical German Philosophy. Whilst for Fichte the negation of the ‘I’ is constitutive for self-consciousness and...
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Existential selfhood in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception
This paper provides an interpretation of the existential conception of selfhood that follows from Merleau-Ponty’s account of perception. On this...
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Confronting Dialectic of Enlightenment via Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies’ academic good fortune owes little to the Frankfurt School. From its origins in early 1970s until earlier this century, the...
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The Pre-reflective Dimension of Self-Awareness and the Bipolar Structure of Existence: Merleau-Ponty’s Way from Body Schema to Sexual Schema
This paper presents Merleau-Ponty’s conception of the bipolar structure of human existence as the movement of transcendence on the basis of...
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Fleeing the Absolute: Derrida and the Problem of Anti-Hegelianism
Derrida defines différance as the “interruption of Hegelian dialectics.” Although scholars have noted that Derrida pursues his critique of Hegel by...
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Technology, Freedom, and the Mechanization of Labor in the Philosophies of Hegel and Adorno
This paper investigates the compatibility of Hegel’s analyses of the mechanization of work in industrial society with Hegel’s notion of freedom as...
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Neither a Beast Nor a God: A Philosophical Anthropology of Humanistic Management
Is freedom and capability enough to sustain our well-being? For human flourishing to progress, defer, and avoid decline, managers as persons must...