Following this reading group, Ray Brassier will be hosting:
several workshops and delivering a public lecture
Week One 12th October
• Adorno, Theodor, Negative Dialectics, Tr. E. B. Ashton. Routledge, 1990, Part III. Models II. World Spirit and Natural History. An Excursion to Hegel, pp. 319-338 [An alternative translation by Dennis Redmond is available online at http://members.efn.org/~dredmond/ndtrans.html]
• Adorno, Theodor. History and Freedom, Polity, 2006, Part I, Lecture 5 ‘The Totality on the Road to Self-Realization’, Lecture 9 ‘The Critique of Universal History’, Lecture 10 ‘‘Negative’ Universal History’
Week Two 19th October
• Hegel, GWF, ‘Science of Logic: Doctrine of Being’, in The Hegel Reader, edited by Stephen Houlgate, Blackwell Publishing, 1998, pp.187-211
• Houlgate, Stephen. The Opening of Hegel’s Logic, Purdue University Press, 2006, Chapter One ‘The Categories of Thought’, and Chapter Six ‘Logic and Ontology’
Week Three 26th October
• Hegel, GWF, ‘Science of Logic: Doctrine of Essence, in The Hegel Reader, edited by Stephen Houlgate, Blackwell Publishing, 1998, pp.212-242
• Houlgate, Stephen, ‘Essence, Reflexion, and Immediacy in Hegel’s Science of Logic’, in A Companion to Hegel, edited by Stephen Houlgate and Michael Bauer, Wiley Blackwell, 201.
Week Four 2nd November
• Hegel, GWF, ‘Science of Logic: Doctrine of the Notion’, in The Hegel Reader, edited by Stephen Houlgate, Blackwell Publishing, 1998, pp.243-250
• Pippin, Robert, ‘Back to Hegel?’ in Mediations 26.1-2 (Fall 2012-Spring 2013) 7-28.
• Žižek, Slavoj, Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism, Verso, 2012, Part II, Chapter 4, Interlude 1, Chapters 7 and 8.
(Optional extras to accompany the Žižek text (and Pippin’s critical review of Žižek):
• Comay, Rebecca, Resistance and Repetition: Freud Through Hegel’ in Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 45, 2015, pp. 237-266
• Dolar, Mladen, ‘Hegel and Freud’ in E-Flux Journal No. 34 April 2012 [Available at http://www.e-flux.com/journal/hegel-and-freud/])
Week Five 16th November
• Hegel, GWF, ‘Phenomenology of Spirit: Consciousness. Sense-Certainty’, in The Hegel Reader, edited by Stephen Houlgate, Blackwell Publishing, 1998, pp.79-86
• Brandom, Robert, ‘Holism and Idealism in Hegel’s Phenomenology’ and ‘Some Pragmatist Themes in Hegel’s Idealism’ in Tales of the Mighty Dead: Historical Essays on the Metaphysics of Intentionality, Harvard University Press, 2002, pp. 178-234
• Houlgate, Stephen, ‘Phenomenology and De Re Interpretation: A Critique of Brandom’s Reading of Hegel’ International Journal of Philosophical Studies Vol. 17, No.1, 2009, pp. 29-47
Week Six 23rd November
• Hegel, GWF, ‘Phenomenology of Spirit: Self-Consciousness’, in The Hegel Reader, edited by Stephen Houlgate, Blackwell Publishing, 1998, pp.87-113
• Brandom, Robert, A Spirit of Trust: A Semantic Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology [available online at http://www.pitt.edu/~brandom/spirit_of_trust_2014.html], Part V, Chapter 15 ‘Trust: Forgiveness as Recollection, Magnanimity as the Final Form of Recognition’
Week Seven 7th December
• Hegel, GWF, ‘Phenomenology of Spirit: Spirit. Absolute Freedom and Terror’, in The Hegel Reader, edited by Stephen Houlgate, Blackwell Publishing, 1998, pp.114-119
• Comay, Rebecca, Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution. Stanford University Press, 2011, Chapter 5, ‘Terrors of the Tabula Rasa’ pp. 118-153
Week Eight 11th January
• Hegel, GWF, ‘Phenomenology of Spirit: Spirit. Absolute Knowing’, in The Hegel Reader, edited by Stephen Houlgate, Blackwell Publishing, 1998, pp.120-124
• Dolar, Mladen, ‘The Owl of Minerva from Dusk till Dawn, or, Two Shades of Gray’ Filozofija I Društvo XXVI (4), 2015
• Pippin, Robert, Modernity as a Philosophical Problem: On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture, 2nd edition, Blackwell Publishers, 1999, Ch. 3 ‘Idealism and Modernity’ pp. 45-77, Chapter 7 ‘Unending Modernity’ pp. 160-
