The chapter on “Civil Society” [die bürgerliche Gesellschaft] in Hegel’s Elements of the Philosophy of Right occupies an almost unparalleled position in modern political philosophy. Few texts have been responsible for such profound changes in our conceptualization of the political and thus in our perception of modern society. [Continue reading here]
La compréhension de la condition féminine, telle que Beauvoir la déploie dans Le Deuxième Sexe, ne saurait être dissociée d’un héritage philosophique précis : celui de la dialectique hégélienne du maître et de l’esclave. Loin d’en constituer une application mécanique, le recours beauvoirien à Hegel opère une véritable instrumentalisation radicale de la dialectique, une réappropriation subversive. [Continuer à lire…]
In this essay, I select three privileged examples (or constellations of examples) which arise from my own experience of working with Hegel and his Marxian continuation, by reading and, so to speak, re-writing his sentences, uncovering their latent prerequisites and their ambivalent implications [continue reading here]
What follows is a reflection on Adorno’s philosophy, particularly as it unfolds in Negative Dialectics, and an exploration of the pivotal role Hegel plays in shaping his thought. [Continue reading here]
Opposition to Hegelianism constitutes a powerful tool for Deleuze (and Guattari) in thinking about politics, and consequently allows us to formulate problems which are undoubtedly still our own today. [Continue reading here]
With Jürgen Habermas’s death, one of the last intellectual giants of the twentieth century has left us. It will be hard to think of Germany and Europe without his voice and his prose. [Continue reading here]
Like Marcuse, I am convinced of the emancipatory potential of Hegelian philosophy, and though in my recent work I have made a turn to Kant, I have never left Hegel behind. [Continue reading here]
Zohran Mamdani is the model of a political actor and thinker who is engaged in a new practice of philosophy. He is a critical theorist/political actor who is constantly confronting concrete political projects with philosophical principles, and vice versa. To elaborate on what I have in mind, I draw on the writings of the postwar French philosopher Louis Althusser, who, throughout his deeply problematic and troubled life, constantly struggled to provide the Left with a philosophical foundation and, in the process, developed one model of what he called “a new philosophical practice.”