Commentary

• From Hegel to Nietzsche

  - Lowith, Karl. From Hegel to Nietzsche, tr. David E. Green. New York, 1964.
  Excerpt: … For Hegel, the spirit as substance and subject of history was the absolute and basic concept of his theory of being. Thus natural philosophy is just as much a spiritual discipline as are the philosophies of the state, art, religion, and… More

• Hegel’s Concept of Experience

  - Heidegger, Martin, Hegel’s Concept of Experience. New York, 1970.
  Excerpt: Hegel: 2. If concern about falling into error makes one in the meanwhile distrustful of science, which takes up its work and actually knows without any such hesitations, then one should not overlook the possibility of reversing this procedure by… More

• The Critique of Pure Modernity: Hegel, Heidegger, and After

  - Kolb, David.  The Critique of Pure Modernity: Hegel, Heidegger, and After, Chicago, 1978.
  Excerpt: One common understanding of progress and development urges the creation or liberation of something like a pure personal individuality and a pure human society. At the same time we also feel it is important to have roots that can give us more than… More

• Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History

  - Gillespie, Michael Allen. Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History, Chicago, 1984.
  Excerpt: From Antinomy to Dialectic Hegelian philosophy is fundamentally dialectical. The meaning and character of this dialectical essence, however, arises out of Hegel’s reception and transformation of Kant’s antinomy doctrine. While his… More

• Less Than Nothing by Slavoj Zizek

  - Žižek, Slavoj. Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism. London: Verso, 2012.
  Excerpt: “The same holds for the unreliability of the verbal reports given by Holocaust survivors: a witness who was able to offer a clear narrative of his camp experience would thereby disqualify himself. In a Hegelian way, the problem here is part of… More