Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xxiii
1. Jean Wahl, "Mediation, Negativity, and Separation" —from Le malheur de la conscience dans la philosophic de Hegel (1929) 1
2. Alexandra Kojeve, "The Idea of Death in the Philosophy of Hegel" —from Introduction to the Reading of Hegel (1947; lectures delivered: 1933-34) 27
3. Jean-Paul Sartre, "Husserl, Hegel, Heidegger" —from Being and Nothingness: A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology (1943) 75
4. Georg Lukacs,'"Entdusserung' ('Externalization') as the Central Philosophical Concept of The Phenomenology of Mind'' —from The Young Hegel: Studies in the Relations between Dialectics and Economics (1948) 95
5. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, "Hegel's Existentialism" - from Sense and Non-Sense (1948) 127
6. Maurice Blanchot, "Literature and the Right to Death" -from The Work of Fire (1949) 135
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I. Frantz Fanon, "The Negro and Hegel" -from Black Skin, White Masks (1952) 169
8. Jean Hyppolite, "Logic and Existence" — from Logic and Existence (1953) 175
9. Georges Bataille, "Hegel, Death and Sacrifice" (1955) 187
10. Jacques Lacan, "The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious," -from Ecrits (1966; lecture delivered: 1960) 205
II. Theodor W. Adorno, "World Spirit and Natural History: An Excursion to Hegel" —from Negative Dialectics (1966) 237
12. Gilles Delenze, "Conclusion" —from Difference and Repetition (1968) 251
13. Louis Althusser, "Marx's Relation to Hegel" —from Hegel et la Pensee Moderne (1970; lecture delivered: 1968) 255
14. Hans-Georg Gadamer, "Hegel's 'Inverted World'" — from Hegel's Dialectic: Five Hermeneutical Studies (1971) 273
15. Jacques Derrida, G/os (1974) 291
16. Luce Irigaray, "The Eternal Irony of the Community" —from Speculum of the Other Woman (1974)
17. Julia Kristeva, "Negativity: Rejection" —from Revolution in Poetic Language (1974) 327
18. Emmanuel Leviiias, "Death and Time" —from God, Death, and Time (1993; lectures delivered: 1976) 337
19. John Sallis, "Hegel's Concept of Presentation: Its Determination in the Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit" — from Delimitations: Phenomenology and the End of Metaphysics (1986; first published: 1977) 353 Contents ix
20. Giorgio Agamben, "Excursus 7 (after the final day)" —from Language and Death: The Place of Negativity (1982) 379
21. Slavoj Zifek, '"Not Only as Substance, but Also as Subject'" -from The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) 389
22. Judith Butler, "Stubborn Attachment, Bodily Subjection: Rereading Hegel on the Unhappy Consciousness" —from The Psychic Life of Power: Tfieories in Subjection (1997; first published: 1995) 417
23. Jean-Luc Nancy, "Freedom," and "We"
—from Hegel: The Restlessness of the Negative (1997) 437
Bibliography 449
Index 453