Posts tagged ‘G.W.F. Hegel’
The irony of anatomy
Basquiat’s poetics of black positionality
by Nathan Brown / RP 195 (Jan/Feb 2016) / Article
for Tanzeen Doha
Isabelle Graw Should I come to New York before I write the article on you?
Jean-Michel Basquiat What would you do if the artist you were writing about were dead?
Graw I would do as much research as possible, get together all the available information…
Basquiat Then just do it like that. Pretend I’m dead…
There …
Helen Macfarlane
Independent object
by David Black and Ben Watson / RP 187 (Sept/Oct 2014) / Article
Talking of the destructive nature of egoistic desire, its satisfaction that the other is nothing, Hegel made room for further development, an empirical moment which might surprise those who think German Idealism only ever allowed for abstraction: ‘In this satisfaction, however, experience makes it [the simple ‘I’] aware that the object has its own independence.’ …
Translatorial hexis
The politics of Pinkard’s translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology
by David Charlston / RP 186 (Jul/Aug 2014) / Article
Most branches of philosophy and many other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences studied in the anglophone academy draw on texts written in languages other than English and therefore rely on the products of translation, especially translations of historical, European philosophy. However, surprisingly little philosophical attention has been paid to the role of individual …
Politics in a Tragic Key
by Alberto Toscano / RP 180 (July/Aug 2013) / Article
In memory of Joel Olson (1967-2012)
In the quarter-century or so since the obscure disaster of the Soviet bloc’s collapse, two words have been pinned to that of ‘communism’ with liberal abandon: ‘tragedy’ and ‘transition’. Tragedy, to signify the magnitude of suffering, but not the greatness of the enterprise; the depth of the fall, …
Voyage au bout de l’ennui
by Alex Dubilet / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / Review
After History: Alexandre Kojève as a Photographer, BAK, Utrecht, 20 May–15 July 2012; OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, 21 September–16 November 2012; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 17 October 2012–7 January 2013.
In a darkened room stand seven podiums, like black treadmills at a standstill. Each faces a digitized photograph projected onto a bare wall. The …
Truly Liberating
by Ben Watson / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / Review
Kevin B. Anderson and Russell Rockwell, eds, The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 1954-1978: Dialogues on Hegel, Marx and Critical Theory, Lexington Books, Lanham MD and Plymouth, 2012, 269 pp., £49.95 hb., £21.95 pb., 978 0 73916 835 6 hb, 978 0 73916 836 3 pb.
Raya Dunayevskaya died in 1987 aged 77, but her ideas remain alive …
More than everything
Žižek's Badiouian Hegel
by Peter Osborne / RP 177 (Jan/Feb 2013) / Article
There are philosophical books, minor classics even, which are widely known and referred to, although no one has actually read them page by page… a nice example of interpassivity, where some figure of the Other is supposed to do the reading for us. Slavoj Žižek1
Allow me to be that figure (for now anyway), …
Disguised as a dog
Cynical Occupy?
by Peter Osborne / RP 174 (Jul/Aug 2012) / Article
I take my title and my philosophical cue from a passage in Marx’s 1839 ‘Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy’. I take my artistic cue from the early work of Valie Export. The passage from Marx reads as follows:
As in the history of philosophy there are nodal points which raise philosophy in …
Subjectivity as medium of the media
Dossier: What is German Media Philosophy?
by Boris Groys / RP 169 (Sep/Oct 2011) / Article, Dossier, What is German Media Philosophy?
Contemporary, let us say ‘post-modern’, discourses on media, communication, information and so on are functioning in our society in at least two different – if interconnected – ways.* First, they describe scientifically the functioning of contemporary media and their growing role in our society. But the development of media theory during recent decades was, in …
Capitalist Epics
Abstraction, totality and the theory of the novel
by David Cunningham / RP 163 (Sep/Oct 2010) / Article
In our recent highlight from RP163, David Cunningham examines the relationship between Lukács’ ‘The Theory of the Novel’ and his later Marxist works, and its asks how we are to read this work today.
Vocabulary of European Philosophies, Part 1 (Subject)
Subject
by Peter Osborne, Étienne Balibar, Barbara Cassin and Alain de Libera / RP 138 (Jul/Aug 2006) / Article
Étienne Balibar, Barbara Cassin, Alain de Libera
Introduction by Peter Osborne.
Necro-economics
Adam Smith and death in the life of the universal
by Warren Montag / RP 134 (Nov/Dec 2005) / Article
Louis Althusser began Reading Capital with the statement, ʻWe have all certainly read and are all reading [Marxʼs] Capital.ʼ While Althusser is undoubtedly addressing here his seminar, the focus of which was precisely Marxʼs Capital, the sentence that follows elevates the act of reading this particular text to the status of the universal: the entire …
Jacques Derrida, 1930–2004
by David Cunningham, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Judith Butler, Simon Critchley, David Macey and David Wood / RP 129 (Jan/Feb 2005) / Obituary
In an interview with Le Monde published a couple of months before his death at the age of 74 from pancreatic cancer on Friday 9 October 2004, Jacques Derrida confirmed what many already knew, that he was ʻdangerously illʼ, ʻat war against myselfʼ. If questions of ʻsurvivalʼ had always ʻhauntedʼ him, this, he said, took …
The reproach of abstraction
by Peter Osborne / RP 127 (Sep/Oct 2004) / Article
This is a paper about abstraction, in particular, but by no means exclusively – and this ʻby no means exclusivelyʼ is a large part of its point – philosophical abstraction.* It is concerned at the outset with what might be called the reproach of abstraction: the com- monly held view, across a wide variety of …
Antonio Negri and Danilo Zolo
Empire and the multitude: A dialogue on the new order of globalization
by Antonio Negri and Danilo Zolo / RP 120 (Jul/Aug 2003) / Interview
Exchange on Hegel’s racism
by Joseph McCarney and Robert Bernasconi / RP 119 (May/Jun 2003) / Extras
The irony of anatomy
Basquiat’s poetics of black positionalityby Nathan Brown / RP 195 (Jan/Feb 2016) / Article
for Tanzeen Doha
Isabelle Graw Should I come to New York before I write the article on you?
Jean-Michel Basquiat What would you do if the artist you were writing about were dead?
Graw I would do as much research as possible, get together all the available information…
Basquiat Then just do it like that. Pretend I’m dead…
There …
Helen Macfarlane
Independent objectby David Black and Ben Watson / RP 187 (Sept/Oct 2014) / Article
Talking of the destructive nature of egoistic desire, its satisfaction that the other is nothing, Hegel made room for further development, an empirical moment which might surprise those who think German Idealism only ever allowed for abstraction: ‘In this satisfaction, however, experience makes it [the simple ‘I’] aware that the object has its own independence.’ …
Translatorial hexis
The politics of Pinkard’s translation of Hegel’s Phenomenologyby David Charlston / RP 186 (Jul/Aug 2014) / Article
Most branches of philosophy and many other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences studied in the anglophone academy draw on texts written in languages other than English and therefore rely on the products of translation, especially translations of historical, European philosophy. However, surprisingly little philosophical attention has been paid to the role of individual …
Politics in a Tragic Key
by Alberto Toscano / RP 180 (July/Aug 2013) / ArticleIn memory of Joel Olson (1967-2012)
In the quarter-century or so since the obscure disaster of the Soviet bloc’s collapse, two words have been pinned to that of ‘communism’ with liberal abandon: ‘tragedy’ and ‘transition’. Tragedy, to signify the magnitude of suffering, but not the greatness of the enterprise; the depth of the fall, …
Voyage au bout de l’ennui
by Alex Dubilet / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / ReviewAfter History: Alexandre Kojève as a Photographer, BAK, Utrecht, 20 May–15 July 2012; OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, 21 September–16 November 2012; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 17 October 2012–7 January 2013.
In a darkened room stand seven podiums, like black treadmills at a standstill. Each faces a digitized photograph projected onto a bare wall. The …
Truly Liberating
by Ben Watson / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / ReviewKevin B. Anderson and Russell Rockwell, eds, The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 1954-1978: Dialogues on Hegel, Marx and Critical Theory, Lexington Books, Lanham MD and Plymouth, 2012, 269 pp., £49.95 hb., £21.95 pb., 978 0 73916 835 6 hb, 978 0 73916 836 3 pb.
Raya Dunayevskaya died in 1987 aged 77, but her ideas remain alive …
More than everything
Žižek's Badiouian Hegelby Peter Osborne / RP 177 (Jan/Feb 2013) / Article
There are philosophical books, minor classics even, which are widely known and referred to, although no one has actually read them page by page… a nice example of interpassivity, where some figure of the Other is supposed to do the reading for us. Slavoj Žižek1
Allow me to be that figure (for now anyway), …
Disguised as a dog
Cynical Occupy?by Peter Osborne / RP 174 (Jul/Aug 2012) / Article
I take my title and my philosophical cue from a passage in Marx’s 1839 ‘Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy’. I take my artistic cue from the early work of Valie Export. The passage from Marx reads as follows:
As in the history of philosophy there are nodal points which raise philosophy in …
Subjectivity as medium of the media
Dossier: What is German Media Philosophy?by Boris Groys / RP 169 (Sep/Oct 2011) / Article, Dossier, What is German Media Philosophy?
Contemporary, let us say ‘post-modern’, discourses on media, communication, information and so on are functioning in our society in at least two different – if interconnected – ways.* First, they describe scientifically the functioning of contemporary media and their growing role in our society. But the development of media theory during recent decades was, in …
Capitalist Epics
Abstraction, totality and the theory of the novelby David Cunningham / RP 163 (Sep/Oct 2010) / Article
In our recent highlight from RP163, David Cunningham examines the relationship between Lukács’ ‘The Theory of the Novel’ and his later Marxist works, and its asks how we are to read this work today.
Vocabulary of European Philosophies, Part 1 (Subject)
Subjectby Peter Osborne, Étienne Balibar, Barbara Cassin and Alain de Libera / RP 138 (Jul/Aug 2006) / Article
Étienne Balibar, Barbara Cassin, Alain de Libera
Introduction by Peter Osborne.
Necro-economics
Adam Smith and death in the life of the universalby Warren Montag / RP 134 (Nov/Dec 2005) / Article
Louis Althusser began Reading Capital with the statement, ʻWe have all certainly read and are all reading [Marxʼs] Capital.ʼ While Althusser is undoubtedly addressing here his seminar, the focus of which was precisely Marxʼs Capital, the sentence that follows elevates the act of reading this particular text to the status of the universal: the entire …
Jacques Derrida, 1930–2004
by David Cunningham, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Judith Butler, Simon Critchley, David Macey and David Wood / RP 129 (Jan/Feb 2005) / ObituaryIn an interview with Le Monde published a couple of months before his death at the age of 74 from pancreatic cancer on Friday 9 October 2004, Jacques Derrida confirmed what many already knew, that he was ʻdangerously illʼ, ʻat war against myselfʼ. If questions of ʻsurvivalʼ had always ʻhauntedʼ him, this, he said, took …
The reproach of abstraction
by Peter Osborne / RP 127 (Sep/Oct 2004) / ArticleThis is a paper about abstraction, in particular, but by no means exclusively – and this ʻby no means exclusivelyʼ is a large part of its point – philosophical abstraction.* It is concerned at the outset with what might be called the reproach of abstraction: the com- monly held view, across a wide variety of …
Antonio Negri and Danilo Zolo
Empire and the multitude: A dialogue on the new order of globalizationby Antonio Negri and Danilo Zolo / RP 120 (Jul/Aug 2003) / Interview