Confronting Hegel and Project 2025 of the Heritage Foundation leads to a burning question: Does the Left need a new framework, and, if so, where would that new approach begin? Certainly not with the traditional family as in Hegel’s Principles of the Philosophy of Law, or in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. [Read more here]
Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
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In February 1844, Marx published two articles in the Deutsch-französische Jahrbücher: “A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Introduction” and “On the Jewish Question.” Together, these two articles push Marx, beyond the legal remedies that he had proposed in his 1842 articles on the thefts of wood, to call for revolution in Germany and human emancipation. This introduction begins to place these works in conversation with the writings of the French political philosopher Claude Lefort in preparation for our seminar with Professor Jean Louise Cohen of Columbia University. [Continue reading here…]