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Introduction: Hegel and Speculative Realism
The aim of this introduction is threefold. First, to place Hegel within a historical context which simultaneously connects and rearticulates the...
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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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Psychoanalysis
This chapter tracks the development of the idea of the unconscious as it emerges from the tensions between Hegel’s and Schelling’s speculative...
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Hegel and Husserl on Phenomenology, Logic, and the System of Sciences: A Reappraisal
Husserl envisages transcendental phenomenology as a radically founding science that lays bare the higher-order experiences whereby logic and a theory...
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Reading Hölderlin
The diversity of poststructuralist appropriations of Hölderlin—considered in relation with and as an alternative to the dominant speculative...
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On Positive Philosophy: Hegel’s Retort to Schelling
Concentrating on Schelling’s lectures of 1833–1834 regarding the history of philosophy, together with the Berlin lectures of 1842, I will discuss...
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Reading Hegel I: Textuality and the Phenomenology
This chapter retraces the ways in which Hegel’s writing cannot set forth without “reading” the language that will have come in its advance. “Readings...
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Money in Hegel’s Philosophy
The role that money and all other economic categories play in Hegel’s philosophy can only be understood if account is taken of the fact that, in his...
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Iterations of the Absolute: Hegel, Meillassoux and Object-Oriented Ontology
This essay continues and develops my interest in the differences between various formulations of ‘the Absolute’ in German Idealism and its...
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Nishitani’s Critique of Hegel in Prajñā and Reason
In Prajñā and Reason Nishitani presents a powerful vision of philosophy as Absolute knowing. Nishitani’s conclusions are striking: Absolute knowing...
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Graham Harman: Politics of the Absolute
Within the last fifteen years, there has been somewhat of a mini-renaissance of the philosophical concept of the absolute found not only in Quentin...
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‘Individuality’ in Hegel’s Aesthetics (II)
This chapter returns to Hegel’s conception of art, taking up several controversial aspects, still misconstrued. I discuss a passage in Hotho’s...
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Editors’ Conclusions: The Past, Present, and Future of the Theory–German Idealism Relation
This concluding chapter to the handbook contains the editors’ reflections on the state of the relationship between theory and German Idealism by way...
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Evald Ilyenkov and the imperialist unconscious in Soviet philosophy
Soviet Marxism is often characterized by the term ontologism . The latter could be defined as a totalizing assertion about material being as...
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Iain Hamilton Grant: Naturphilosophie or the Hegelian Philosophy of Nature?
This chapter gives me the opportunity to showcase what is generally repressed in orthodox Hegelian scholarship; Hegel’s remarkable theory of Nature...
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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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Interrupting/Disrupting Speculative Time
Ontology, that has always determined time on the basis of Being, is the very possibility of the philosophy: it determined Being as synchrony of the...
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Quentin Meillassoux: Hyper-Chaos or Dialectics?
Quentin Meillassoux offers us some really interesting rebuttals to Hegel’s ontology, but as fellow speculative realist Iain Hamilton Grant states,...
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Hegel’s Political Theology of Kenosis: From the Death of God to the Hegelian Monarch
This article explores the concept of the death of God in Hegel's philosophy and its implications for his political thought. It argues that Hegel's...
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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...