Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Zizek's guide to surplus (and why it's enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is surplus to our needs is by its very nature unsubstantial and unnecessary. But, perversely, without this surplus, we wouldn't be able to enjoy, what is substantial and necessary. Indeed, without the surplus we wouldn't be able to identify what was the perfect amount.

Is there any escape from the vicious cycle of surplus enjoyment or are we forever doomed to simply want more? Engaging with everything from The Joker film to pop songs and Thomas Aquinas to the history of pandemics, Zizek argues that recognising the society of enjoyment we live in for what it is can provide an explanation for the political impasses in which we find ourselves today. And if we begin, even a little bit, to recognise that the nuggets of 'enjoyment' we find in excess are as flimsy and futile, might we find a way out?

A provocative reassessment of Heidegger's critique of German Idealism from one of the tradition's foremost interpreters.

Heidegger claimed that Western philosophy ended--failed, even--in the German Idealist tradition. In The Culmination, Robert B. Pippin explores the ramifications of this charge through a masterful survey of Western philosophy, especially Heidegger's critiques of Hegel and Kant. Pippin argues that Heidegger's basic concern was to determine sources of meaning for human life, particularly those that had been obscured by Western philosophy's attention to reason. The Culmination offers a new interpretation of Heidegger, German Idealism, and the fate of Western rationalism.

2017 Reprint of Circa 1920 Edition Published by Charles H. Kerr. Although delivered as a speech, this paper remained unpublished until after Marx's death. It reads like a condensed version of Capital Volume 1, and contains Marx's essential arguments about the workings of capital. Those wanted to avoid reading the entirety of Capital Volume 1 will find an excellent introduction to Marx's ideas in this short publication.

Slavoj Zizek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about the new posthuman era.

No ordinary study of Hegel, this work investigates what he might have had to say about the idea of the 'wired brain' - what happens when a direct link between our mental processes and a digital machine emerges. Zizek explores the phenomenon of a wired brain effect, and what might happen when we can share our thoughts directly with others. He hones in on the key question of how it shapes our experience and status as 'free' individuals and asks what it means to be human when a machine can read our minds.

With characteristic verve and enjoyment of the unexpected, Zizek connects Hegel to the world we live in now, shows why he is much more fun than anyone gives him credit for, and why the 21st century might just be Hegelian.

Schelling came of age during the pivotal and exciting years at the end of the eighteenth century, as Kant's philosophy was being incorporated into the German academic world. At this time, in addition to delving into the new Kantian philosophy, Schelling engaged in an intense study of Plato's dialogues and was immersed in a Neoplatonic intellectual culture. Attention to these aspects of Schelling's early philosophical development illuminates his fundamental commitments. Throughout the first decade of his adult life, from 1792-1802, Schelling was a mystical Platonist.
Naomi Fisher argues that Schelling is committed to two overarching theses, which together comprise his mystical Platonism. First, Schelling considers the absolute to be ineffable: It cannot be described in conceptual terms. For this reason, it remains inferentially external to any given philosophical system and is only intimated to us in certain analogical formulations, in works of art, or in nature as a whole. Second, Schelling is committed to a kind of priority monism: All things are grounded in the absolute, but finite things possess an integral unity all their own, and so have a distinct and relatively independent existence.
Highlighting these commitments resolves an interpretive dispute, according to which Schelling is a Fichtean idealist or a Spinozist, or he vacillates between these positions. Interpreting Schelling as advancing a mystical Platonism provides an alternative way of interpreting these early texts, such that they are by and large consistent. Fisher presents Schelling's early philosophy as a unique and compelling fusion of the old and new: Schelling fulfills the characteristic aims of post-Kantian philosophy in a way distinctive among his contemporaries, by drawing on and appropriating various strands of Platonism.

The German philosopher Karl Jaspers was moved by the possibilities of global understanding throughout his life and penetrated it more deeply than any other thinker before him. Anton Hügli argues that Jaspers' petition to not proclaim a new doctrine, --but to continue thinking along the path taken by the great philosophers of the past, --is itself an expression of his unconditional will to communicate. The limits of communication that Jaspers shows us are not accidental psychological and sociological obstacles to understanding, but limits that we humans encounter as humans: we want to communicate what cannot be communicated.

Instead of an understanding based on a truth that can be understood by all, there is a struggle between the powers of faith. How we can communicate with one another and work for peace and unity in the world? This ultimate question requires a twofold clarification: on the one hand, of the nature of the objects that have always been considered inexpressible, the human's individual existence and God as the ultimate One, and on the other hand, of the faculty in us that allows us to think things that cannot be thought.

Understanding German Idealism provides an accessible introduction to the philosophical movement that emerged in 1781, with the publication of Kant's monumental Critique of Pure Reason, and ended fifty years later, with Hegel's death. The thinkers of this period, and the themes they developed revolutionized almost every area of philosophy and had an impact that continues to be felt across the humanities and social sciences today. Notoriously complex, the central texts of German Idealism have confounded the most capable and patient interpreters for more than 200 years. Understanding German Idealism aims to convey the significance of this philosophical movement while avoiding its obscurity. Readers are given a clear understanding of the problems that motivated Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel and the solutions that they proposed. Dudley outlines the main ideas of transcendental idealism and explores how the later German Idealists attempted to carry out the Kantian project more rigorously than Kant himself, striving to develop a fully self-critical and rational philosophy, in order to determine the meaning and sustain the possibility of a free and rational modern life. The book examines some of the most important early criticisms of German Idealism and the philosophical alternatives to which they led, including romanticism, Marxism, existentialism, and naturalism.

Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Zizek's guide to surplus (and why it's enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is surplus to our needs is by its very nature unsubstantial and unnecessary. But, perversely, without this surplus, we wouldn't be able to enjoy, what is substantial and necessary. Indeed, without the surplus we wouldn't be able to identify what was the perfect amount.

Is there any escape from the vicious cycle of surplus enjoyment or are we forever doomed to simply want more? Engaging with everything from The Joker film to pop songs and Thomas Aquinas to the history of pandemics, Zizek argues that recognising the society of enjoyment we live in for what it is can provide an explanation for the political impasses in which we find ourselves today. And if we begin, even a little bit, to recognise that the nuggets of 'enjoyment' we find in excess are as flimsy and futile, might we find a way out?

This Handbook provides a comprehensive, multi-authored study of Schelling's thought, its context, and its enormous influence. Divided into four major sections ('Periods, ' 'Themes, ' 'Figures and the History of Philosophy', and 'Reception and Legacy'), it is a well-structured guide to Schelling's work and the ways in which it relates to other thinkers and movements.

Key features:

• Links Schelling to the history of philosophy, contemporary philosophy, psychoanalysis, politics, and theology
• Offers a systematic overview of a thinker whose thought evolved through three main periods
• Explores the importance of Schelling in the development of German idealism more broadly
• Updates the English-speaking academic community with current German research on Schelling

Responding to Schelling's renewed scholarly prominence, The Palgrave Schelling Handbook provides a contemporary and authoritative re-consideration of his thought. Within its pages, scholars and researchers will find avenues and inspiration for new work in areas that have been previously underrepresented in Schelling studies. The Palgrave Schelling Handbook is the ideal reference work for advanced philosophy and theology students taking courses on Schelling or German idealism. It will have wide, general appeal to scholars and students of philosophy, theology, political theory, and German studies.

Hegel's Logic is one of the culminating breakthroughs of modern philosophy, containing the most thorough explanation of dialectic that Hegel ever wrote, and setting the stage for his Philosophy of Nature and Philosophy of Mind.

This translation by William Wallace, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University, has been long recognized as a benchmark text for English translations of Hegel and of German philosophy in general. Prof. Wallace's introductory essay, explaining the origin of Hegel's Logic and its various editions, will help the reader to situate the work within the development of Hegel's philosophy and the important currents of German thought in his time.

In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of G.W.F. Hegel, Slavoj Zizek gives us a reading of the philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about our new posthuman era. No ordinary study of Hegel, Hegel in a Wired Brain investigates what he might have had to say about the idea of the 'wired brain' - what happens when a direct link between our mental processes and a digital machine emerges. Zizek explores the phenomenon of a wired brain effect, and what might happen when we can share our thoughts directly with others. He hones in on the key question of how it shapes our experience and status as 'free' individuals and asks what it means to be human when a machine can read our minds.

With characteristic verve and enjoyment of the unexpected, Zizek connects Hegel to the world we live in now, shows why he is much more fun than anyone gives him credit for, and why the 21st century might just be Hegelian.

2019 Reprint of 1894 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. The Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (first published in 1817) is a work that presents an abbreviated version of Hegel's systematic philosophy in its entirety and is the only form in which Hegel ever published his entire mature philosophical system. The fact that the account is exhaustive, that the grounding structures of reality are ideal, and that the system is closed makes the Encyclopedia a statement par excellence of absolute idealism.

The present work represents part three of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences published separately as Hegel's Philosophy of Mind. This scholarly translated by undertaken by William Wallace and published by Oxford University Press.

In 2012, philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Zizek published what arguably is his magnum opus, the one-thousand-page tome Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism. A sizable sequel appeared in 2014, Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism. In these two books, Zizek returns to the German idealist G. W. F. Hegel in order to forge a new materialism for the twenty-first century. Zizek's reinvention of Hegelian dialectics explores perennial and contemporary concerns: humanity's relations with nature, the place of human freedom, the limits of rationality, the roles of spirituality and religion, and the prospects for radical sociopolitical change.

In A New German Idealism, Adrian Johnston offers a first-of-its-kind sustained critical response to Less Than Nothing and Absolute Recoil. Johnston, a leading authority on and interlocutor of Zizek, assesses the recent return to Hegel against the backdrop of Kantian and post-Kantian German idealism. He also presents alternate reconstructions of Hegel's positions that differ in important respects from Zizek's version of dialectical materialism. In particular, Johnston criticizes Zizek's deviations from the secular naturalism and Enlightenment optimism of his chosen sources of inspiration: not only Hegel, but Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud too. In response, Johnston develops what he calls transcendental materialism, an antireductive and leftist materialism capable of preserving and advancing the core legacies of the Hegelian, Marxian, and Freudian traditions central to Zizek.

Includes contributions from Schopenhauer experts across the world

Focuses on a less read area of Schopenhauer's deep and abiding interest in the Upanishads and Indic philosophy

Provides insights about the influence of Indic philosophical texts on Schopenhauer, and about his influence on modern Indian philosophers

This collection of essays features some of the best of R. G. Collingwood's work concerning the relationship between history and philosophy.

First published posthumously in 1965, Essays in the Philosophy of History is a collection of R. G. Collingwood's best work. He explores the philosophy of history, its aims, limitations, and relevance. Highly recommended for students of philosophy and those interested in historical cycles.

The contents of this volume feature:

- Croce's Philosophy of History

- Are History and Science Different Kinds of Knowledge?

- The Nature and Aims of a Philosophy of History

- Oswald Spengler and the Theory of Historical Cycles

- The Limits of Historical Knowledge

- A Philosophy of History

- A Philosophy of Progress

Published posthumously in 1964, this volume contains a fantastic collection of essays by R. G. Collingwood on the subject of art and it's relationship with philosophy. Robin George Collingwood, FBA (1889 - 1943) was an English historian, philosopher, and archaeologist most famous for his philosophical works including The Principles of Art (1938) and the posthumously-published The Idea of History (1946). This fascinating volume will appeal to those with an interest in Collingwood's seminal work, and is not to be missed by students of philosophy and art. Contents include: Ruskin not a Philosophical Writer, Ruskin's Attitude towards Philosophy, On the Philosophy of Non-Philosophers, Logicism and Historicism, Ruskin as Historicist, The Anti-Historicism of Ruskin's Contemporaries, The Unity of the Spirit: Corollaries and Illustrations, Ruskin and Browning, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume today in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

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At the onset of his philosophical production, in the fall of 1795, the poet Novalis wrote a long series of fragmentary annotations posthumously entitled Fichte-Studien. A range of important themes are dealt with, all of them dealing with Fichte's philosophy. But the main problem that presides over Novalis' first philosophy and which pervades these manuscripts is a greater problem, a spiritual conflict between opposites, namely, poetry (life) and philosophy, or feeling and reflection, a conflict which Novalis was experiencing ever since he had attended Reinhold's lectures on Elementary Philosophy in Jena (1790), which would be irreversibly enhanced by Fichte's Doctrine of Science (from 1793 onwards), and only then would be addressed in his own Fichte-Studien.

The current volume attempts to determine how Novalis solves his spiritual conflict under the guise of a theory of opposites, in light of his reading of the same problem in Reinhold and Fichte. Novalis' conclusion is that of a hypothesis of a reciprocal dynamism, a living and cumulative alternation between opposites, which shall originate the I and inaugurate its reflexive self-understanding; namely, the hypothesis of uniting feeling and reflection, essential components of the I as a being of opposites, under the form of a union in disunion, wherein a real impossibility of uniting the opposites and an ideal possibility of doing so simultaneously coexist; a proposition which will lead Novalis to part from his teachers, and involves a profound reflection on the need to reassess the concepts of I, of identity and thought itself - a genuine critique of the self - which gradually carves out the image of Novalis as an autonomous and original thinker within the scope of German Idealism.

The Other Book

By Waid Sainvil

Unlock the mysteries of existence in The Other Book, a profound exploration of spiritual truths and cosmic wisdom. Drawing on the teachings of Billy Meier, Waid Sainvil guides you on a mystical journey that intertwines the secrets of creation with the essence of your being. This book is more than just a spiritual guide-it is an invitation to awaken to the extraordinary magic that lies beneath the surface of everyday life.

With poetic insights and illuminating reflections, The Other Book leads you on a path toward self-discovery, harmony, and a deeper understanding of the universe. As you journey through its pages, you'll experience the transformative power of love, unity, and the divine purpose that resides within you.

This book is a call to embrace your true self and step into the light of awareness. It beckons you to dance with the divine, uncover the deeper layers of reality, and experience the profound interconnectedness that binds all things. Join the adventure and let The Other Book be your guide to awakening a greater connection with the universe and the magic that surrounds us all.

The Other Book

By Waid Sainvil

Unlock the mysteries of existence in The Other Book, a profound exploration of spiritual truths and cosmic wisdom. Drawing on the teachings of Billy Meier, Waid Sainvil guides you on a mystical journey that intertwines the secrets of creation with the essence of your being. This book is more than just a spiritual guide-it is an invitation to awaken to the extraordinary magic that lies beneath the surface of everyday life.

With poetic insights and illuminating reflections, The Other Book leads you on a path toward self-discovery, harmony, and a deeper understanding of the universe. As you journey through its pages, you'll experience the transformative power of love, unity, and the divine purpose that resides within you.

This book is a call to embrace your true self and step into the light of awareness. It beckons you to dance with the divine, uncover the deeper layers of reality, and experience the profound interconnectedness that binds all things. Join the adventure and let The Other Book be your guide to awakening a greater connection with the universe and the magic that surrounds us all.