Continental Philosophy

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La notion de Weltanschauung : généalogie d’un concept et d’un processus
ÉLODIE BOUBLIL
Inter et Inter: A Report on the Metamorphosis of an Actress
ISOBEL BOWDITCH
Spirit and/or Flesh: Merleau-Ponty’s Encounter with Hegel
DAVID STOREY
Les objets intentionnels – à la frontière entre les actes et le monde
MARIA GYEMANT
Est-il possible de dire l’éthique de la proximité? Contribution au dossier Kierkegaard – Levinas
DOMINIC DESROCHES
The “Inversions” of Intentionality in Levinas and the Later Heidegger
ADAM KONOPKA

Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) ranks as one of the most original Jewish thinkers of the modern period. As a historian of philosophy, Rosenzweig played a brief but noteworthy role in the neo-Hegelian revival on the German intellectual scene of the 1910s. In the years immediately following the First World War, he sought to bring about the “total renewal of thinking” through a novel synthesis of philosophy and theology he named the “new thinking.” Rosenzweig’s account of revelation as a call from the Absolute other helped shape the course of early 20th-century Jewish and Christian theology. His reflections on human finitude and on the temporal contours of human experience made a lasting impact on 20th-century existentialism; and his account of dialogue presented the interpersonal relation between “I” and “You” as both constitutive of selfhood and as yielding redemptive communal consequences. Rosenzweig engaged in two major works of translation, most notably the German translation of the Bible in which he collaborated with Martin Buber. He founded a center for Jewish adult education in Frankfurt—the Lehrhaus—which attracted the most important young German-Jewish intellectuals of its time, and which is still held up today as a model for educational programs of its type.

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The Pregnancy of the Real: A Phenomenological Defense of Experimental Realism, Pages 1 – 25
Author: Shannon Vallor

Knowledge, Freedom and Willing: Hegel on Subjective Spirit, Pages 26 – 52
Author: Damion Buterin

Between Internalism and Externalism: Husserl’s Account of Intentionality, Pages 53 – 78
Author: Lilian Alweiss

Mental Capacity and Decisional Autonomy: An Interdisciplinary Challenge, Pages 79 – 107
Authors: Gareth S. Owen; Fabian Freyenhagen; Genevra Richardson; Matthew Hotopf

New entry of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

The Experience of Freedom http://www.mediafire.com/?5cym1ntnoce

Hegel, The Restlessness of the Negative http://www.mediafire.com/?mxi2mgwpjjb

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On his own site, Terry Pinkard has a link to the pdf of his translation of the Phenomenology. It is bilingual, side by side.

A review of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Guide (Cambridge Critical Guides)

Few texts in the history of thought are as difficult and yet as exciting as Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. In the 201 years since its publication, the Phenomenology has had a broad influence on diverse fields of thought, including philosophy, sociology, theology, political science, and literary theory. It has been a source of philosophical inspiration for some and the frustratingly wrong-headed celebration of everything disastrous in modern thought for others. Yet what remains constant is that the Phenomenology demands and indeed has elicited thoughtful interlocutors who must combine Hegel’s own qualities — at once philosophically rigorous and focused, and also imaginative and comprehensive. The twelve contributors to Moyar and Quante’s excellent volume are readers of just this variety. They wrestle with small portions of Hegel’s challenging text and show how Hegel’s insights can help advance and even transform our thinking about traditional philosophical problems. This makes the Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Guide a belated but fitting bicentennial birthday present.

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Fark Yaralari’s e-texts, once more. Link

A review of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age(link to the review)

Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit

And a Zizek interview, which is quite funny. Just an excerp:

If you could go back in time, where would you go?

To Germany in the early 19th century, to follow a university course by Hegel.

How do you relax?

Listening again and again to Wagner.

How often do you have sex?

It depends what one means by sex. If it’s the usual masturbation with a living partner, I try not to have it at all.

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(h/t: Robert Sinnerbrink)

Adam Kotsko has published his notes on Agamben’s new book, Il Regno e la Gloria

Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought

Review of Contradiction in Motion: Hegel’s Organic Concept of Life and Value

Hegel famously declares that “Everything in my logic is indebted to Heraclitus” and “Everything is contradictory.” Songsuk Susan Hahn’s study is a thoughtful and unusual treatment of contradiction in Hegel. It illuminates crucial links between the logical, aesthetic and ethical aspects of Hegel’s system, and furthermore is a welcome departure from the prevailing approach to the dialectic as the public-communal constitution and recognition of rational norms, free of ontological claims, in a kind of historicized Kantianism. Hahn observes that Hegel’s concept of life is central to the Science of Logic and to the whole of the system, wherein it has undeniable ontological import. Her book, she tells the reader, began with wonder: “What does Hegel mean when he says we must regard concepts as ‘living’?” (195).

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Distributive Justice and Welfarism in Utilitarianism — Jörg Schroth

Gödel, Kant, and the Path of a Science — Srecko Kovac

Hegel's Account of Rule-Following — David Landy

Husserl, Phenomenology, and Foundationalism — Walter Hopp

The Spirit of the Age: Hegel and the Fate of Thinking

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The Spirit of The Age and the Fate of Philosophical Thinking — Paul Ashton, Toula Nicolacopoulos, George Vassilacopoulos
Would Hegel Be A ‘Hegelian’ Today? — H. S. Harris
Hegel, Idealism and God: Philosophy as the Self-Correcting Appropriation of the Norms of Life and Thought — Paul Redding
Hegel, Derrida and the Subject — Simon Lumsden
Hegel’s Science of Logic and the “Sociality of Reason” — Jorge Armando Reyes
The Ego as World: Speculative Justification and the Role of the Thinker in Hegel’s Philosophy — Toula Nicolacopoulos, George Vassilacopoulos
Hegel Today: Towards a Tragic Conception of Intercultural Conflicts — Karin G de Boer
Sein und Geist: Heidegger’s Confrontation with Hegel’s Phenomenology — Robert Sixto Sinnerbrink
Hegel, Recognition And Rights: ‘Anerkennung’ As A Gridline Of The Philosophy Of Rights — Jürgen Lawrenz
Hegel’s Theory of Moral Action, its Place in his System and the ‘Highest’ Right of the Subject — David Rose
Being and Implication: On Hegel and the Greeks — Andrew Haas
The Relevance of Hegel’s Logic — John W Burbidge
Agamben, Hegel, and the State of Exception — Wendell Kisner
Gathering and Dispersing: The Absolute Spirit in Hegel’s Philosophy — George Vassilacopoulos
Hegel and the Becoming of Essence — David Gray Carlson
Dialectical Reason and Necessary Conflict—Understanding and the Nature of Terror — Angelica Nuzzo
The Spirit (of our Time) is and is not a Bone. — Johan Vandycke
The Beginning Before the Beginning: Hegel and the Activation of Philosophy — Paul Ashton
Kierkegaard’s Ethical Stage In Hegel’s Logical Categories: Actual Possibility, Reality And Necessity — María J. Binetti
El estadio ético de Kierkegaard en las categorías lógicas de Hegel: posibilidad, realidad y necesidad actuales – María J. Binetti

Kojeve – Introduction to the Reading of Hegel

Spaceman Spiff, over at Cross-X forum, has posted Derrida’ Glas.

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MARTIN HEIDEGGER AND RUDOLF CARNAP: RADICAL PHENOMENOLOGY, LOGICAL POSITIVISM, AND THE ROOTS OF THE CONTINENTAL/ANALYTIC DIVIDE — James Luchte. Philosophy

REPRESENTATION AND POIESIS: THE IMAGINATION IN THE LATER HEIDEGGER — John W M Krummel
           
HEIDEGGER'S ETYMOLOGICAL METHOD: DISCOVERING BEING BY RECOVERING THE RICHNESS OF THE WORD — Matthew King

THOUGHTS IN POTENTIALITY: PROVISIONAL REFLECTIONS ON AGAMBEN'S UNDERSTANDING OF POTENTIALITY AND ITS RELEVANCE FOR THEOLOGY AND POLITICS — Alberto Bertozzi.       

A CRITIQUE OF SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR'S EXISTENTIAL ETHICS — Matthew Braddock

TWO NOTIONS OF OBJECTIFICATION — Iddo Landau.

COMMITTED PERCEPTION: MERLEAU-PONTY, CARROLL, AND IRANIAN CINEMA — Farhang Erfani

ON GIVING HEGEL HIS DUE: THE "END OF HISTORY" AND THE HEGELIAN ROOTS OF POSTMODERN THOUGHT — Jere O'Neill Surber

INNOCENCE, PERVERSION, AND ABU GHRAIB — Kelly Oliver

"OURS IS NOT A TERRIBLE SITUATION" — Alain Badiou, Simon Critchley

A review of Hegel’s Philosophy of Language

Hegel’s views regarding language have provoked a good deal of discussion and often controversy since about the middle of the last century. Among those who have weighed in to one degree or another can be counted such well-known figures as Gadamer, Habermas, Ricoeur, Derrida, Deleuze, Lyotard, Nancy, and Žižek. However, it would be difficult to describe any general contours or results of such discussions for two reasons. First, Hegel himself never provided anything approaching a self-standing ‘philosophy of language’ that could be compared with his philosophies of art, religion, nature, politics, or history. Rather, his views on language are expressed, in part, in several relatively extended discussions which form parts of other philosophical projects and, in part, in quite numerous comments and asides. To complicate matters even more, both longer and briefer reflections occur over the entire course of his philosophical career. Second, prior to the appearance of the present work, there has been (with one exception that I will mention later) no serious attempt to articulate what such a ‘Hegelian philosophy of language’ might look like. As a result, such earlier discussions have something of the quality of dinner gossip about an absent guest, revealing more about the various parties’ own preferences and prejudices than about anything that Hegel himself might have recognized as his own views. Jim Vernon has quite bravely attempted to address this issue head-on. He seeks, in an admirably direct and focused way, to provide a cogent account of language that at once bases itself on some of Hegel’s more important passages on this topic, attempts to remain true to Hegel’s overall philosophical project, and supplies some of the important connective tissue that Hegel himself either omitted or merely glossed.

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Pierre Bourdieu: From Neo-Kantian to Hegelian Critical Social Theory
Author: Redding, Paul
Source: Critical Horizons, Volume 6, Number 1, 2005 , pp. 183-204(22)

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