Remnants of Hegel: Remains of Ontology, Religion, and Community

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An original philosophical exploration of the limits of Hegel's thought. Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 14 1. Aristotle: A Certain Underlying Nature and the Individual “Thing”......Page 16 2. Not Substance, But Just as Much Subject......Page 28 3. The Reflexive Movement of Thinking......Page 36 4. The Unveiling of Substance as the Genesis of the Concept......Page 38 5. Begging the Question of Beginning......Page 40 1. The Infinite Value of Subjectivity......Page 44 2. The Death of Christ and the Commencement of History......Page 49 3. The Strange Heart of Reason......Page 54 4. “I Am the Unity of Fire and Water”......Page 58 5. Natural Death and the Death of Death......Page 62 1. Hegel and the Revolution—After Marxism......Page 70 2. Living and Thinking One’s Own Time......Page 73 3. A Literal Reading of Hegel......Page 76 4. Hegel’s Two “Terrors”......Page 79 5. Metal and Water: Beheading and Drowning......Page 89 6. Fanaticism as a Chemical Precipitate......Page 93 7. An Inverted Allegory of the Cave......Page 98 8. From Absolute Negativity to the Element of Freedom......Page 102 1. The Entire Remnant of the Idea......Page 108 2. Person as a Relational Nature......Page 113 3. Abstract Right and Legal Recognition......Page 117 4. Ethical Life and Bourgeois Virtues......Page 122 5. A Strange Sort of Redemption......Page 126 1. The Devil, the Good Lord, and Human Blood......Page 130 2. Man as the Possibility of God: Passio Christi......Page 134 3. Cultus and Eucharist as Manducatio Spiritualis......Page 140 4. The Spirit as the Wound of Time......Page 143 5. The Fullness of Time as the Exhaustion of Time......Page 148 Notes......Page 150 Index......Page 172