CONTENTS

Preface: Hegel’s Century

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Risking Hegel: A New Reading for the Twenty-first Century

CLAYTON CROCKETT AND CRESTON DAVIS

1   Is Confession the Accomplishment of Recognition? Rousseau and the Unthought of Religion in the Phenomenology of Spirit

CATHERINE MALABOU

2   Rereading Hegel: The Philosopher of Right

ANTONIO NEGRI

3   The Perversity of the Absolute, the Perverse Core of Hegel, and the Possibility of Radical Theology

JOHN D. CAPUTO

4   Hegel in America

BRUNO BOSTEELS

5   Infinite Restlessness

MARK C. TAYLOR

6   Between Finitude and Infinity: On Hegel’s Sublationary Infinitism

WILLIAM DESMOND

7   The Way of Despair

KATRIN PAHL

8   The Weakness of Nature: Hegel, Freud, Lacan, and Negativity Materialized

ADRIAN JOHNSTON

9   Disrupting Reason: Art and Madness in Hegel and Van Gogh

EDITH WYSCHOGROD

10   Finite Representation, Spontaneous Thought, and the Politics of an Open-Ended Consummation

THOMAS A. LEWIS

11   Hegel and Shitting: The Idea’s Constipation

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK

 

List of Contributors

Index of Names