An analysis of Marxist conceptions of the good and the beautiful and their relationship to alienation, “Ugly and Monstrous” argues that Marxism was ultimately a set of aesthetic beliefs, one that paradoxically called for the temporary cessation of all attempts to create beautiful artwork. Marx understood beauty as Kant had – that it is the result of the harmonization of the faculties that occur...

Arash Abazari's Hegel's Ontology of Power is a superb study the relevance logic to Marx's theory. Hegel often dismissed by Marxists as an ‘idealist’ denying reality world, if were Bishop Berkeley with German accent. 1 Abazari recognizes this not case: ‘(T)he logical categories are self-standing, but shadow, or track, empirical world’ (Abazari 2020: 7). But world in its full actuality does simpl...

It is now evident that the so-called Hegeljahre of 1970 — the 200th anniversary of Hegel's birth — was only the start of a decade of Hegel. Over the last 10 years a flood of commentaries on variousaspects of Hegel's thought have appeared, critical editions of his works have been published, and new translations of his works have been ventured. This review can make no claim to be comprehensive. I...

This article charts the history of the concept of system in order to establish a set of conceptual trends in the philosophy of systems. Establishing the importance of the German Idealists, and especially Hegel, in this history, we then focus on the system of Leibniz since he marks a decisive turn toward the problem of individuation within the systematic, ontological immanence so important to He...

The eighteenth century is still the bottleneck of history political theory: that separates pre-economic theorists such as Machiavelli, Bodin and Hobbes from post-economic Hegel, Mill Marx. Political thinking became immeasurably much more complicated in century: yet historians, after at least half a extremely judicious scholarship, have difficulty explaining its significance for contemporary the...