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24Hegel today: Towards a tragic conception of intercultural conflictsCosmos and History 3 (2-3): 117-131. 2007.This essay draws on Hegelrsquo;s conception of tragedy in the emPhenomenology/em to reinterpret the intercultural conflicts that confront us today. It is argued that the prevailing self-conception of modern states, relying on the opposition between universality and particularity, effaces the irresolvable entanglement of contrary values such as progress and tradition or reason and faith. The essay seeks to employ Hegelrsquo;s insight into the dynamic of tragic conflicts to conceptualize precisely…Read more
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61Hegel's antigone and the dialectics of sexual differencePhilosophy Today 47 (5): 140-146. 2003.status: published.
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1Différance as Negativity: The Hegelian Remains of Derrida’s PhilosophyIn Stephen Houlgate & Michael Baur (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Hegel, Blackwell. pp. 594-610. 2011.
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64Transformations of Transcendental Philosophy: Wolff, Kant, and HegelBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 32 (1-2): 50-79. 2011.Shedding new light on Kant’s use of the term ‘transcendental’ in the Critique of Pure Reason, this article aims to determine the elements that Kant’s transcendental philosophy has in common with Wolffian ontology as well as the respects in which Kant turns against Wolff. On this basis I argue that Wolff’s, Kant’s and Hegel’s conceptions of metaphysics – qua first philosophy – have a deeper affinity than is commonly assumed. Bracketing the issue of Kant’s alleged subjectivism, I challenge the opp…Read more
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57On Hegel: the sway of the negativePalgrave-Macmillan. 2010.Hegel is most famous for his view that conflicts between contrary positions are necessarily resolved. Whereas this optimism, inherent in modernity as such, has been challenged from Kierkegaard onward, many critics have misconstrued Hegel's own intentions. Focusing on the Science of Logic, this transformative reading of Hegel on the one hand exposes the immense force of Hegel's conception of tragedy, logic, nature, history, time, language, spirit, politics, and philosophy itself. Drawing out the …Read more
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22Hegel’s Account of the Present: An Open-Ended HistoryIn Will Dudley (ed.), Hegel and History, Suny. pp. 51-67. 2009.Given the history of the twentieth century, it is understandable that many contemporary philosophers—in the wake of Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche—have turned against Hegel’s seemingly unbridled optimism. As I will argue in this chapter, however, Hegel’s account of modern civilizations is much less optimistic than his account of the past. Hegel’s hesitation as to the capacity of modernity to resolve its immanent conflicts preeminently emerges in his account of the oppositions between poverty …Read more
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30De tijd, het dier en het ontstaan Van innerlijkheid: Over hegels vroege natuurfilosofieTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 63 (2): 283-318. 2001.In his early Jena System Drafts, Hegel elaborates a conception of time which is no longer thematized in later works such as the Encychpaedia. Hegel's early philosophy of nature bears not only on time insofar as it constitutes — together with space — the basic framework of the sciences, but also on the interiorization of time which occurs in the animal. This interiorization marks a decisive moment in the transition from nature to human consciousness, for it is here, in Hegel's view, that time beg…Read more
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92Beyond Recognition? Critical Reflections on Honneth’s Reading of Hegel’s Philosophy of RightInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 21 (4). 2013.This article challenges Honneth's reading of Hegel's Philosophy of Right in The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel's Social Theory (2001/2010). Focusing on Hegel's method, I argue that this text hardly offers support for the theory of mutual recognition that Honneth purports to derive from it. After critically considering Honneth's interpretation of Hegel's account of the family and civil society, I argue that Hegel's text does not warrant Honneth's tacit identification of mutual recogniti…Read more
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17Tragic entanglements: Between Hegel and derridaBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 47 34-49. 2003.
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