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840Self-Consciousness and the Critique of the Subject: Hegel, Heidegger, and the Poststructuralists, by Simon Lumsden: New York: Columbia University Press, 2014, pp. xviii + 265, US$45Australasian Journal of Philosophy 94 (2): 402-405. 2016.A review of Simon Lumsden's book on self consciousness in Hegel and in Postmodern authors.
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108Heidegger on East-West Dialogue (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 83 (1): 164-167. 2009.
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883Circulation and constitution at the end of historyNoûs 25 (2): 204. 1991.What goes round at the end of history for the two Germans.
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712The Particular Logic Of ModernityBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 41 31-42. 2000.A discussion of the logical role of particular concepts in Robert Pippin's reading Hegel as a theorist of modernity, with special reference to the question whether modernity can be surpassed or left behind.
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698Pythagoras Bound: Limit and Unlimited in Plato's PhilebusJournal of the History of Philosophy 21 (4): 497-511. 1983.Though Plato favors physical atoms in his Timaeus, they are not ultimate; he generates them from a formless energy-space plus mathematical patterns. On the other hand most interpreters read the Platonic Forms as ultimate intellectual atoms. I suggest that Plato refuses atomism on all levels, and the Forms themselves should be seen as generated from a combination of limit and unlimited, as we are told in the Philebus and as is hinted at in the reports on the "unwritten doctrines."
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3213Hegel's architectureIn Stephen Houlgate (ed.), Hegel and the Arts, Northwestern University Press. 2007."The first of the particular arts . . . is architecture." (A 13.116/1.83)1 For Hegel, architecture stands at several beginnings. It is the art closest to raw nature. It is the beginning art in a progressive spiritualization that will culminate in poetry and music. The drive for art is spirit's drive to become fully itself by encountering itself; art makes spirit's essential reality present as an outer sensible work of its own powers.2 (A 13.453/1.351) If Hegel's narrative of the arts creates a h…Read more
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1063Ontological priorities: A critique of the announced goals of "descriptive metaphysics"Metaphilosophy 6 (3-4): 238-258. 1975.A critique of Strawson's distinction between descriptive and revisionary metaphysics.
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663Spirit in Ashes (review)The Owl of Minerva 21 (1): 96-99. 1989.This provocative book questions whether contemporary humanity can face death in any of the traditional ways, since the events of our century have created a new selfhood and a new death. Wyschogrod describes the “death event” and the “death world”; these refer to the Holocaust but also to the destructive bombings in World War II, and most importantly to the death-in-life of the Nazi and Stalinist concentration and labor camps. Her thesis is
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723Home on the range: Planning and totalityResearch in Phenomenology 22 (1): 3-11. 1992.This essay argues against global plans and hierarchical systems, whether in urban planning or art and life.
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107Coming down from the trees: Metaphysics and the history of classificationContinental Philosophy Review 35 (2): 161-183. 2002.Three kinds of concepts can be distinguished in Plato and Aristotle, empirical genera and species, “transcendental” concepts such as being and unity, and polarized “meanings of being” such as power and actuality. Both Kant and Hegel break with the traditional dominance of polarized meanings of being, but they do so in different ways which are at work as competing trends inside both Continental and analytic philosophy today
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128What Is Open and What Is Closed in the Philosophy of HegelPhilosophical Topics 19 (2): 29-50. 1991.This essay studies the ways in which Hegel's thought demands "closure," critiques various proposals for an "open Hegelianism," and concludes that Hegel cannot achieve the closure he seeks, and that "open Hegelianisms" are not Hegelian because of their separations of form from content. Nonetheless the essay argues that Hegel can play an important role in the analyses of thought and culture today, in part as a corrective to excessive claims of openness and indeterminacy.
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4819Postmodern Sophistications: Philosophy, Architecture, and TraditionUniversity Of Chicago Press. 1992.Kolb discusses postmodern architectural styles and theories within the context of philosophical ideas about modernism and postmodernism. He focuses on what it means to dwell in a world and within a history and to act from or against a tradition.
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512Heidegger at 100, in AmericaJournal of the History of Ideas 52 (1): 140-151. 1991.The year 1989 marked the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Martin Heidegger. What has happened to his thought in America? This essay offers a perspective on what I take to be the main trends and some representative works in Heidegger studies on the American side of the Atlantic (with perforce some simplifications both within and among the trends I mention).
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873IntroductionDialogue 39 (4): 651. 2000.Introduction to a volume on Hegel, asking why his thought continues to be relevant today.
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58Klaus Vieweg. Das Denken der Freiheit: Hegels Grundlinien der Philosophie des RechtsThe Owl of Minerva 46 (1/2): 129-137. 2014.
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1781Darwin Rocks Hegel: Does Nature Have A History?Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 57 97-117. 2008.In the popular press and the halls of politics, controversies over evolution are increasingly strident these days. Hegel is relevant in this connection, even though he rejected the theories of evolution he knew about, because he wanted rational understanding but without claims to intelligent design. He is reported to have said that nature has no history, but a closer examination will show that his ideaqs are more nuanced and that there is more room for darwinian ideas than one might expect, thou…Read more
