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Introduction: Spirit's Humble Beginnings -- Aristotelian Roots -- Life, or die Weltseele -- False Enigmas and Real Beginnings -- Animal Life, or das tierische Subjekt -- No Longer Just Animal Life -- Premonitions of Selfhood, or die ahnende Seele -- Disorders -- Conclusion. Inhabiting the World, or die Gewohnheit.

Examines the influences of Marxism & Jewish-mystical tradition on Walter Benjamin's concept of history through an analysis of his eighteen theses contained in Ueber den Begriff der Geschichte ([On the Concept of History] 1974). Benjamin's thoughts are read as a series of nonsystematic meditations that include references to Stalinism, social democracy, fascism, & socialist defeats. It is argued that Benjamin's central message is focused around recognizing capital as the material core of modernity. It is posited that three characteristics of mystical thought prevade Benjamin's thinking: the interpretation of human reality represents the symbols of a historical, hidden reality; the struggle with, but ultimate acceptance of paradox; & the search for a metaphysical unity. Photographs by Roman Vishniac of Eastern European Hasidic communities prior to the Nazi genocide are used to suggest that Benjamin saw the lives of oppressed peoples as a means to understanding the true essence of historical events. 5 Photographs, 13 References. M. Greenberg

Klappentext: Die absolut-idealistische Kritik an Kant warf ihm vor allem vor, er hätte sich von materialistischen Überresten nicht vollständig befreit. Um so auffallender ist es, dass der Marxismus diese Kritik nicht einer eingehenden materialistischen Untersuchung unterzogen, sondern sie für sich in Anspruch genommen hat. Diese Arbeit zeigt, wie sich ein solcher Materialismus durch die Inanspruchnahme Hegelscher Kerngedanken in Widersprüche verwickelt und weist auf Wege ihrer Lösung hin. Aus dem Inhalt: Die innere Paradoxie des Kantschen Systems nach Hegel - Der Wahrheitsbegriff bei Hegel-und bei Marx - Versuch einer dialektischen "Ontologie der Komplexe" - Materialismus und Pessimismus: das "Andere" und das stoische Subjekt.

The collective focus of the essays here presented consists of the attempt to overcome the deadlock between metaphysical and non- (or anti-) metaphysical Hegel interpretations. There is no doubt that Hegel rejects traditional and influential forms of metaphysical thought. There is also no doubt that he grounds his philosophical system on a metaphysical theory of thought and reality. The question asked by the contributors in this volume is therefore: what kind of metaphysics does Hegel reject, and what kind does he embrace? Some of the papers address the issue in general and comprehensive terms, but from different, even opposite perspectives: Hegel's claim of a 'unity' of logic and metaphysics; his potentially deflationary understanding of metaphysics; his overt metaphysical commitments; his subject-less notion of logical thought; and his criticism of Kant's critique of metaphysics. Other contributors discuss the same topics in view of very specific subject-matter in Hegel's corpus, to wit: the philosophy of self-consciousness; practical philosophy; teleology and holism; a particular brand of naturalism; language's relation to thought; 'true' and 'spurious' infinity as pivotal in philosophic thinking; and Hegel's conception of human agency and action.