Andreja Novakovic on Hegel and family abolition
Thursday, November 12, 2026, at 6:15PM
Columbia University, the Annex
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Professor Andreja Novakovic, author of Hegel on the Family Form (Cambridge Elements), will discuss how Hegel’s concept of the family in the Philosophy of Right can be reconciled with the movement to abolish the family.
Readings:
Andreja Novakovic, Hegel on the Family Form (Elements in the Philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel), Cambridge University Press, 2026 (available online at the Columbia University Library here: https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/ebs113928807e)
Livia von Samson, “What Hegel Enables: Family Abolition as Immanent Critique,” forthcoming in The Owl of Minerva, available here: https://philarchive.org/archive/VONWHE-2
13/13 with Dorothy Roberts on family abolition here: https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/abolition1313/10-13-abolish-family-policing/
13/13 with Jules Gleeson on Monique Wittig that addressed family abolition here: https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu/5-13/