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    Hegel’s Grand Synthesis: A Study of Being, Thought, and History
    State University of New York Press. 1989.
    Berthold-Bond (philosophy, Bard College) traces the project through Hegel's epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of history. Paper edition ($18.95) not seen. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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    Hegel's Epistemological Realism (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 45 (1): 157-158. 1991.
    This book presents a sophisticated, ambitious, and very valuable reading of Hegel's "absolute idealist" philosophy as being committed to a position of epistemological realism. Westphal's method of approach incorporates two basic levels of analysis. First, the work gives a very close examination of the "Introduction" to the Phenomenology of Spirit, tracing out the structure of Hegel's argument for epistemological realism and the way in which a successful realism requires a socio-historical ground…Read more
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    Freud's critique of philosophy
    Metaphilosophy 20 (3-4): 274-294. 1989.
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    Hegel's Eschatological Vision: Does History Have a Future?
    History and Theory 27 (1): 14-29. 1988.
    There is a strongly entrenched ambiguity in Hegel's philosophy between two opposed ways of describing the End, or "completion" of history: the "absolutist" and the "epochal" readings. Either Hegel's eschatological vision is of a completely final End, where no further progress in history or knowledge is possible, or it is an epochal conception, where the completion he speaks of is the fulfillment of an historical epoch. Passages in Hegel's texts may be found to support either of these alternative…Read more
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    Violence in Camus and Sartre: Ambiguities
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 59 (1): 47-65. 2020.
    The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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    Hegel on Metaphilosophy and the “Philosophic Spectator”
    Idealistic Studies 16 (3): 205-217. 1986.
    In this article I will discuss various aspects of Hegel’s radical critique of metaphilosophy. This critique announces a clear-cut departure from the widely held conviction in the philosophic tradition that in order to gain a firm foundation for science, a preliminary examination of the capacity and nature of knowledge is required. Hegel’s position is that such a propaedeutic is impossible. In the first part of this article, I will show how Hegel’s position can be illuminated in terms of his crit…Read more
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    Can There Be a “Humanistic” Ecology?
    Social Theory and Practice 20 (3): 279-309. 1994.
    The article engages the current debate between humanistic' and anti-humanistic' alternatives for an ecological philosophy by putting Heidegger and Hegel into dialogue. It is argued that Heidegger's portrait of Hegel's philosophy as a form of humanism' which foreshadows the modern logic of domination and exploitation of nature is highly misleading. Hegel's humanistic' position can allow for a genuinely ecological vision of nature, which, while not as radically ecological as Heidegger's, may in fa…Read more
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    Hegel and Marx on Nature and Ecology
    Journal of Philosophical Research 22 145-179. 1997.
    While neither Hegel nor Marx can be called “ecologists” in any strict sense of the term, they both present views of the human-nature relationship which offer important insights for contemporary debates in philosophical ecology. Further, while Marx and Engels began a tradition of sharply distinguishing their own views of nature from those of Hegel, careful examination reveals a substantial commonality of sentiment. The essay compares Hegel and Marx (and Engels) in terms of their basic conceptions…Read more
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    The Ethics of “Place”: Reflections on Bioregionalism
    Environmental Ethics 22 (1): 5-24. 2000.
    The idea of “place” has become a topic of growing interest in environmental ethics literature. I explore a variety of issues surrounding the conceptualization of “place” in bioregional theory. I show that there is a necessary vagueness in bioregional definitions of region or place because these concepts elude any purely objective, geographically literal categorization. I argue that this elusiveness is in fact a great meritbecause it calls attention to a more essential “subjective” and experienti…Read more
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    The Decentering of Reason
    International Studies in Philosophy 25 (1): 9-25. 1993.
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    Hegel's Theory of Madness
    State University of New York Press. 1995.
    This book shows how an understanding of the nature and role of insanity in Hegel's writing provides intriguing new points of access to many of the central themes of his larger philosophic project.
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    Hegel on Madness and Tragedy
    History of Philosophy Quarterly 11 (1). 1994.
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    Hegel and Marx on Nature and Ecology
    Journal of Philosophical Research 22 145-179. 1997.
    While neither Hegel nor Marx can be called “ecologists” in any strict sense of the term, they both present views of the human-nature relationship which offer important insights for contemporary debates in philosophical ecology. Further, while Marx and Engels began a tradition of sharply distinguishing their own views of nature from those of Hegel, careful examination reveals a substantial commonality of sentiment. The essay compares Hegel and Marx (and Engels) in terms of their basic conceptions…Read more
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    The Ethics of “Place”: Reflections on Bioregionalism
    Environmental Ethics 22 (1): 5-24. 2000.
    The idea of “place” has become a topic of growing interest in environmental ethics literature. I explore a variety of issues surrounding the conceptualization of “place” in bioregional theory. I show that there is a necessary vagueness in bioregional definitions of region or place because these concepts elude any purely objective, geographically literal categorization. I argue that this elusiveness is in fact a great meritbecause it calls attention to a more essential “subjective” and experienti…Read more
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    Introduction : Rorschach tests -- A question of style -- Live or tell -- Kierkegaard's seductions -- Hegel's seductions -- Talking cures -- A penchant for disguise : the death (and rebirth) of the author in Kierkegaard and Nietzsche -- Passing over : the death of the author in Hegel -- Conclusion : the melancholy of having finished -- Aftersong : from low down.
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    The Author as Stranger
    Idealistic Studies 42 (2-3): 227-246. 2012.
    I argue that not only do Nietzsche and Camus share a sense of the world as fundamentally “strange,” but that each adopts an authorial position as stranger to the reader as well. The various strategies of concealment, evasion, and silence they employ to assure their authorial strangeness are in the service of what Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault would later call “the death of the author,” the disappearance of the author as authority over his or her own text. I argue further, however, that with…Read more
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    Kierkegaard and Camus: either/or? (review)
    International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 73 (2): 137-150. 2013.
    The philosophies of Søren Kierkegaard and Albert Camus have typically been considered as inverted images of each other. Kierkegaard turns to faith in God as a path of redemption from meaninglessness while Camus rejects faith as a form of intellectual suicide and cowardice. I argue that an analysis of key terms of contest—faith and lucidity, revolt and suicide, Abraham and Sisyphus, despair and its overcoming—serves to blur the lines of contrast, making Kierkegaard and Camus much closer in their …Read more
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    Talking Cures: A Lacanian Reading of Hegel and Kierkegaard on Language and Madness
    Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 16 (4): 299-311. 2009.
    In examining Hegel's and Kierkegaard's theories of language, I argue that both entail conceptions of the therapeutic power of language to heal us from madness and despair. I show that whereas Hegel quite straightforwardly celebrates the emancipatory power of language, Kierkegaard is more ambivalent; on the one hand, he devotes his life to a maieutic authorship in service of aiding the reader, but on the other, he believes that ultimately it is only faith in God that can cure us, and that faith r…Read more
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    A Penchant For Disguise: The Death of the Author in Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
    Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 39 (3): 333-358. 2010.
    This chapter situates Kierkegaard's commitment to death in companionship with a similar, if not identical, commitment on the part of Friedrich Nietzsche. Both conceptualize the relation between self and other as occurring across an abyss of difference that dissolves the authority of the author, and adhere to a philosophy of language in which the author's text becomes infinitely interpretable according to the position occupied by the reader. But notwithstanding the inventiveness with which Kierke…Read more
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    Live or tell
    Philosophy and Literature 30 (2): 361-377. 2006.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Live or TellDaniel BertholdTwo of the more notoriously elusive authors writing in the first half of the nineteenth century—a century noteworthy on the European continent for producing more than its fair share of elusive authors—are the German idealist Georg Hegel and his posthumous tormentor, the Christian existentialist Søren Kierkegaard. Their elusiveness is such that to read either of them is much like taking a Rorschach test: wha…Read more
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    Talking Cures, the Clinic, and the Value of the Ineffable
    Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 16 (4): 325-328. 2009.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Talking Cures, the Clinic, and the Value of the IneffableDaniel Berthold (bio)KeywordsMadness, disease, the normal, the abnormal, the ineffable, Hegel, Kierkegaard, LacanI am most grateful to my readers, James Phillips and Louis Sass, who have led me to several new insights by suggesting ways of complicating my reading of a Lacanian approach to Hegel's and Kierkegaard's conceptions of madness. I am a Kierkegaard and Hegel scholar, wi…Read more
  • A Question Of Style: Hegel and Kierkegaard on Language, Communication, and the Ethics of Authorship
    Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 35 (2): 179-200. 2006.
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    Passing‐over: The Death of the Author in Hegel's Philosophy
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 47 (1): 25-47. 2010.
    Criticism of Hegel has been a central preoccupation of “postmodern” philosophy, from critical theory and deconstruction to Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and Foucauldian “archaeology.” One of the most frequent criticisms is that Hegel's invocation of “absolute knowledge” installs him in a position of authorial arrogance, of God‐like authority, leaving the reader in a position of subservience to the Sage's perfect wisdom. The argument of this article is that this sort of criticism is profoundly i…Read more