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6Alleen een Oudemans zou ons nog kunnen reddenAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 90 (3): 217-220. 1998.
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41Tragedy, Dialectics, and Différance: On Hegel and Derrida 1Southern Journal of Philosophy 39 (3): 331-357. 2001.
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26The Dissolving Force of the Concept: Hegel’s Ontological LogicReview of Metaphysics 57 (4): 787-822. 2004.OVER THE PAST FEW DECADES many attempts have been made to defend Hegel’s philosophy against those who denounce it as crypto-theological, dogmatic metaphysics. This was done first of all by foregrounding Hegel’s indebtedness to Kant, that is, by interpreting speculative science as a radicalization of Kant’s critical project. This emphasis on Hegel’s Kantian roots has resulted in a shift from the Phenomenology of Spirit to the Science of Logic. Robert Pippin’s Hegel’s Idealism: The Satisfactions o…Read more
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31Heideggers 'zeit und sein'. Een schets Van de contourenTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 56 (3). 1994.Heidegger often stressed that the analysis of Dasein in Being and Time should be understood as a mere preliminary investigation. That this analysis indeed prepares the investigation into the relationship between time, the understanding of Being and ontology,can only become clear when some light is thrown on the never published third section ofBeing and Time. In this section Heidegger would have explicated in what sense time can be understood as condition of possibility for every kind of ontology…Read more
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14The Infinite Movement of Self-Conception and Its Inconceivable Finitude: Hegel on Logos and LanguageDialogue 40 (1): 75-98. 2001.RésuméBien que Hegel soit parfaitement conscient du fait que l'activité de penser nepuisse devenir ce qu'elle est que dans etpar le langage, on peut dire qu'ila préservé une distinction hiérarchisée entre la pensée et le langage dans lequel elle s'exprime. Dans le but de clarifier ce qu'il veut dire exactement lorsqu'il distingue entre, d'un côté, la totalité des concepts purs et, de l'autre, le langage, la première partie du présent article—qui en est aussi la plus longue—fournit une interpréta…Read more
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40The Dissolving Force of the Concept: Hegel’s Ontological LogicReview of Metaphysics 57 (4). 2004.OVER THE PAST FEW DECADES many attempts have been made to defend Hegel’s philosophy against those who denounce it as crypto-theological, dogmatic metaphysics. This was done first of all by foregrounding Hegel’s indebtedness to Kant, that is, by interpreting speculative science as a radicalization of Kant’s critical project. This emphasis on Hegel’s Kantian roots has resulted in a shift from the Phenomenology of Spirit to the Science of Logic. Robert Pippin’s Hegel’s Idealism: The Satisfactions o…Read more
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81Tragedy, Dialectics, and Différance: On Hegel and DerridaSouthern Journal of Philosophy 39 (3): 331-357. 2001.
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9How not to turn a blind eye to the tragic. Some remarks on Hegel's interpretation of tragedyHegel-Jahrbuch 2 (1): 157-161. 2000.
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91Giving due: Heidegger's interpretation of the anaximander fragmentResearch in Phenomenology 27 (1): 150-166. 1997.
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113Categories versus Schemata: Kant’s Two-Aspect Theory of Pure Concepts and his Critique of Wolffian MetaphysicsJournal of the History of Philosophy 54 (3): 441-468. 2016.in a late note, dated 1797, Kant refers to the schematism of the pure understanding as one of the most difficult as well as one of the most important issues treated in the Critique of Pure Reason.1 His treatment of this theme is indeed notorious for its obscurity.2 As I see it, part of the problem is caused by the fact that Kant frames his discussion in terms that he could expect his readers to be familiar with, while he gradually develops ideas that breach any traditional account of cognition. …Read more
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35Thinking in the Light of Time: Heidegger’s Encounter with Hegel (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2000.Translated from the Dutch, this book offers a systematic interpretation of Heidegger's thought, focusing particularly on recently published works
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197Kant, Reichenbach, and the Fate of A Priori PrinciplesEuropean Journal of Philosophy 19 (4): 507-531. 2010.Abstract: This article contends that the relation of early logical empiricism to Kant was more complex than is often assumed. It argues that Reichenbach's early work on Kant and Einstein, entitled The Theory of Relativity and A Priori Knowledge (1920) aimed to transform rather than to oppose Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. One the one hand, I argue that Reichenbach's conception of coordinating principles, derived from Kant's conception of synthetic a priori principles, offers a valuable way of a…Read more
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1125Hegel's account of contradiction in the science of logic reconsideredJournal of the History of Philosophy 48 (3): 345-373. 2010.This article challenges the prevailing interpretations of Hegel's account of the concept "contradiction" in the Science of Logic by arguing that it is concerned with the principle of Hegel's method rather than with the classical law of non-contradiction. I first consider Hegel's Doctrine of Essence in view of Kant's discussion of the concepts of reflection in the first Critique. On this basis, I examine Hegel's account of the logical principles based on the concepts "identity," "opposition," and…Read more
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1Democracy Out of Joint? The Financial Crisis in Light of Hegel’s Philosophy of RightBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 66 36-53. 2012.
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26Bernard Mabille's Hegel. l'Épreuve De La Contingence (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 43 133-137. 2001.
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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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66Transformations 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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58On 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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31De 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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94Beyond 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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18Tragic entanglements: Between Hegel and derridaBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 47 34-49. 2003.
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2Kant, Hegel, and the System of Pure ReasonIn Elena Ficara (ed.), Die Begründung der Philosophie im Deutschen Idealismus, Königshausen & Neumann. pp. 77-87. 2011.Since the 1970s, debates about Hegel’s Science of Logic have largely turned around the metaphysical or non-metaphysical nature of this work. This debate has certainly issued many important contributions to Hegel scholarship. Yet it presupposes, in my view, a set of oppositions that thwart an adequate assessment of Hegel’s indebtedness to Kant. I hope to show in this paper that Hegel is deeply indebted to Kant, but not to the Kant who is commonly brought into play to argue for the non-metaphysica…Read more
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246Hegel's Antigone and the Dialectics of Sexual DifferencePhilosophy Today 47 (Supplement): 140-146. 2003.
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37The Vicissitudes of Metaphysics in Kant and Early Post-Kantian PhilosophyRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 71 (2-3): 267-286. 2015.Resumo Não há dúvida que tanto Kant como Hegel viram os seus respectivos trabalhos, como contribuições para aquilo que consideravam ser a “metafísica”. No entanto, a autora argumenta, que isto só deve ser compreendido, tendo presente, as concepções de metafísica de cada um dos autores. A autora, começando pela distinção implícita entre metafísica geral e metafísica especial na Crítica da Razão Pura, argumenta que Kant, Fichte, Schelling e Hegel comprometeram-se com uma investigação que, até essa…Read more
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