Ebook: Hegel and the Infinite

Is confession the accomplishment of recognition? Rousseau and the unthought of religion in the Phenomenology of spirit / Catherine Malabou -- Rereading Hegel: the philosopher of right / Antonio Negri -- The perversity of the absolute, the perverse core of Hegel, and the possibility of radical theology / John D. Caputo -- Hegel in America / Bruno Bosteels -- Infinite restlessness / Mark C. Taylor -- Between finitude and infinity: on Hegel's sublationary infinitism / William Desmond -- The way of despair / Katrin Pahl -- The weakness of nature: Hegel, Freud, Lacan, and negativity materialized / Adrian Johnston -- Disrupting reason: art and madness in Hegel and Van Gogh / Edith Wyschogrod -- Finite representation, spontanious thought, and the politics of an open-ended consummation / Thomas A. Lewis -- Hegel and shitting: the idea's constipation / Slavoj Zizek.;Catherine Malabou, Antonio Negri, John D. Caputo, Bruno Bosteels, Mark C. Taylor, and Slavoj Žižek join seven others-including William Desmond, Katrin Pahl, Adrian Johnston, Edith Wyschogrod, and Thomas A. Lewis-to apply Hegel's thought to twenty-first-century philosophy, politics, and religion. Doing away with claims that the evolution of thought and history is at an end, these thinkers safeguard Hegel's innovations against irrelevance and, importantly, reset the distinction of secular and sacred. These original contributions focus on Hegelian analysis and the transformative.