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]
Seyla Benhabib
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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]
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…]