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1Alienation (edited book)Columbia University Press. 2014.The Hegelian-Marxist idea of alienation fell out of favor after the postmetaphysical rejection of humanism and essentialist views of human nature. In this book Rahel Jaeggi draws on the Hegelian philosophical tradition, phenomenological analyses grounded in modern conceptions of agency, and recent work in the analytical tradition to reconceive alienation as the absence of a meaningful relationship to oneself and others, which manifests in feelings of helplessness and the despondent acceptance of…Read more
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The efficacy of the rational being (first proposition: [Nr.] 1)In Jean-Christophe Merle (ed.), Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Grundlage des Naturrechts, De Gruyter. 2016.
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17The Philosophy of Recognition: Historical and Contemporary PerspectivesLexington Books. 2009.Edited by Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch & Christopher Zurn. This volume collects original, cutting-edge essays on the philosophy of recognition by international scholars eminent in the field. By considering the topic of recognition as addressed by both classical and contemporary authors, the volume explores the connections between historical and contemporary recognition research and makes substantive contributions to the further development of contemporary theories of recognition.
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43. The Efficacy of the Rational Being (First Proposition: § 1)In Jean-Christophe Merle (ed.), Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Grundlage des Naturrechts, De Gruyter. pp. 39-49. 2016.
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10The Idea of a Hegelian ‘Science’ of SocietyIn Stephen Houlgate & Michael Baur (eds.), A Companion to Hegel, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: The Aim of Hegel's Science of Society The Method of Hegel's Science of Society Comprehension versus Critique.
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6Rousseau und Hegel: Zwei Begriffe der AnerkennungIn Stefan Lang & Lars Thade Ulrichs (eds.), Subjektivität und Autonomie: Praktische Selbstverhältnisse in der klassischen deutschen Philosophie, De Gruyter. pp. 275-288. 2013.
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13Foundations of Hegel’s Social TheoryHarvard University Press. 2000.This study examines the philosophical foundations of Hegel's social theory by articulating the normative standards at work in his claim that the central social institutions of the modern era are rational or good.
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207Hegel’s Idea of a ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’Philosophical Review 109 (2): 296-299. 2000.Michael Forster’s latest book is a comprehensive and illuminating treatment of the basic tasks and strategies of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. As the title indicates, Forster is more concerned to elucidate the aims and structure of the Phenomenology as a whole than to reconstruct the claims of specific sections or to provide a chapter-by-chapter commentary. Forster is correct that a coherent and sympathetic account of the Phenomenology’s “official project” is badly needed, and he succeeds adm…Read more
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19Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory: De-Throning the SelfMind 110 (438): 439-442. 2001.
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The method of the Philosophy of rightIn David James (ed.), Hegel's `Elements of the Philosophy of Right': A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. 2017.
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38Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and DurkheimCambridge University Press. 2022.Can a human society suffer from illness like a living thing? And if so, how does such a malaise manifest itself? In this thought-provoking book, Fred Neuhouser explains and defends the idea of social pathology, demonstrating what it means to describe societies as 'ill', or 'sick', and why we are so often drawn to conceiving of social problems as ailments or maladies. He shows how Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim – four key philosophers who are seldom taken to constitute a 'tradition' – deploy…Read more
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66Nietzsche on Spiritual Illness and Its PromiseJournal of Nietzsche Studies 45 (3): 293-314. 2014.ABSTRACT This article reconstructs Nietzsche's conception of spiritual illness, especially as exhibited in various forms of the bad conscience, and asks what positive, ennobling potential Nietzsche finds in it. The relevant concept of spirit is arrived at by reconstructing Nietzsche's conception of life and then considering what reflexive life—life turned back against itself—would look like. It distinguishes four independent features of spiritual illness: the measureless drive to make oneself su…Read more
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6Jean-Jacques RousseauIn Ludwig Siep, Heikki Ikaheimo & Michael Quante (eds.), Handbuch Anerkennung, Springer. pp. 241-244. 2018.
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15Anomie: On the Link Between Social Pathology and Social OntologyIn Nicola Marcucci (ed.), Durkheim & Critique, Springer Verlag. pp. 131-162. 2021.This chapter examines the philosophical underpinnings of Durkheim’s account of anomie as social pathology. It examines and evaluates Durkheim’s conception of social pathology and his claim that social problems must be understood as analogous to illnesses. Further, it explores the vision of social ontology—of the kind of being that human societies have—underlying Durkheim’s position, which involves articulating the ways in which human societies are both different from and similar to biological or…Read more
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24Hegel on “the Living Good”Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 33 (3-4): 310-331. 2021.ABSTRACT Hegel calls social life “the living good,” but what this means is unclear. The idea expresses an ontological claim about the kind of being that human societies possess, but it is also normatively significant, clarifying why the category of social pathology is an appropriate tool of social critique. Social life consists in processes of life infused with ethical content. Societies are normatively and functionally constituted living beings that realize the good similarly to how organisms a…Read more
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4Enlightenment, Revolution, and Romanticism: The Genesis of Modern German Political Thought, 1790-1800 (review)Philosophical Review 103 (1): 192-194. 1994.
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13Geistige Gesundheit und kulturelle Pathologie bei NietzscheDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 68 (1): 1-27. 2020.This paper reconstructs Nietzsche’s conception of spiritual illness, especially as exhibited in various forms of the bad conscience, and asks what positive, ennobling potential Nietzsche finds in it. The relevant concept of spirit is arrived at by reconstructing Nietzsche’s conception of life and then considering what reflexive life – life turned back against itself – would look like. It distinguishes four independent features of spiritual illness: the measureless drive to make oneself suffer, s…Read more
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22Alienation by Rahel Jaeggi Translated by Frederick Neuhouser and Alan E. Smith (review)Review of Metaphysics 68 (3): 662-664. 2015.
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17Hegel über Sozialontologie und die Möglichkeit sozialer PathologienIn Christian Krijnen & Stephan Zimmermann (eds.), Sozialontologie in der Perspektive des Deutschen Idealismus: Ansätze, Rezeptionen, Probleme, De Gruyter. pp. 119-140. 2018.
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Fichte's Theory of Self Positing Subjectivity and the Unity of ReasonDissertation, Columbia University. 1988.The aim of the dissertation is to examine Fichte's attempt at demonstrating the unity of theoretical and practical reason. Chapter 1 discusses the young Fichte's dissatisfaction with Kant's two separate accounts of reason in the First and Second Critiques. It also analyzes the relationship between the issue of the unity of reason and what Fichte takes to be another crucial problem in Kant's moral philosophy, the lack of a positive proof that pure reason is practical. ;Chapter 2 traces Fichte's d…Read more
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488Freedom, dependence, and the general willPhilosophical Review 102 (3): 363-395. 1993.n his Lectures on the Histmy 0f Philosophy Hegel credits Rousseau with an cpoch-making innovation in the realm 0f practical philosophy, an innovation said to consist in thc fact that Rousseau is thc first thinker t0 recognize "the free will" as thc fundamental principle 0f political philosophy} Since Hcgcl’s 0wn practical philosophy is explicitly grounded in an account 0f thc will and its freedom, Hcgcl’s assertion is clearly intended as an acknowledgment 0f his deep indebtedness t0 R0usscau’s s…Read more
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33Daniel Breazeale, ed. and trans., "Fichte: Early Philosophical Writings" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 28 (4): 624. 1990.
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70On Detaching Hegel’s Social Philosophy from His MetaphysicsThe Owl of Minerva 36 (1): 31-42. 2004.This paper rebuts four objections to my attempt, in Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory, to reconstruct Hegel's social philosophy in abstraction from his metaphysics and theodicy: 1) that social philosophy requires the Logic as its ground; 2) that only an independent metaphysics can justify the norms employed by social philosophy; 3) that empirical considerations can play no role in Hegel's arguments; and 4) that, robbed of his "ontology of the self," Hegel cannot respond to romantic critics. I…Read more
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62Rousseau's Critique of Inequality: Reconstructing the Second DiscourseCambridge University Press. 2014.Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality among Mankind, published in 1755, is a vastly influential study of the foundations of human society, including the economic inequalities it tends to create. To date, however, there has been little philosophical analysis of the Discourse in the literature. In this book, Frederick Neuhouser offers a rich and incisive philosophical examination of the work. He clarifies Rousseau's arguments as to why social inequalities are so prevalent in human socie…Read more
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43Hegel and Nietzsche on Spirit and its PathologiesIn Leonel R. dos Santos & Katia Dawn Hay (eds.), Nietzsche, German Idealism and its Critics, De Gruyter. pp. 11-34. 2015.
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52Desire, Recognition, and the Relation between Bondsman and LordIn Kenneth R. Westphal (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Further Reading.
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42The General Will: Rousseau, Marx, CommunismPhilosophical Review 104 (4): 597. 1995.The principal aim of Andrew Levine’s most recent book is to defend the ideal of communism. Its strategy is to demonstrate the coherence and desirability of that ideal by invoking Rousseau’s concept of the general will. More specifically, the general will is supposed to provide a model for the kind of cooperation that will take place among members of a communistic society. Since the notion of a general will is itself highly obscure, this book can also be read as an attempt to clarify and flesh ou…Read more
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152Rousseau's theodicy of self-love: evil, rationality, and the drive for recognitionOxford University Press. 2008.This book is the first comprehensive study of Rousseau's rich and complex theory of the type of self-love (amour proper) that, for him, marks the central difference between humans and the beasts. Amour proper is the passion that drives human individuals to seek the esteem, approval, admiration, or love--the recognition--of their fellow beings. Neuhouser reconstructs Rousseau's understanding of what the drive for recognition is, why it is so problematic, and how its presence opens up far-reaching…Read more