Author: Bernard E. Harcourt

Core Readings

Core Readings C.L.R. James, Notes on Dialectics: Hegel, Marx, Lenin (1948), available at https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/dialecti/index.htm. Raya Dunayevskaya 1972: On C.L.R. James’ Notes on Dialectics: https://www.marxists.org/archive/dunayevskaya/works/1972/misc/james.htm. Additional Readings C.L.R. James, Grace C. Lee, and Cornelius Castoriadis, Facing Reality. The New Society: Where… Continue Reading →

Core Reading Frantz Fanon, “The Negro and Hegel” in Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Charles Lam Markmann (New York: Grove, 1967 [1952]). Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, trans. Richard Philcox, preface by Jean-Paul Sartre, foreword by Homi K. Bhabha… Continue Reading →

Core Readings: Simone de Beauvoir, Le Deuxième sexe (Paris: Gallimard, 1949) Simone de Beauvoir, La Force de l’âge (Paris, Gallimard, 1960) Simone de Beauvoir, Journal de guerre. Septembre 1939-janvier 1941 (Paris, Gallimard, 1990) Resources: Kimberly Hutchings, « Beauvoir and Hegel », p.… Continue Reading →

Core Seminar Readings G.W.F. Hegel, §§ 341-360, Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, trans. T.M. Knox (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952) G.W.F. Hegel, Introduction: Reason in History. Introduction to the Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1822-1828 and 1830-1831 versions), trans. H.B.… Continue Reading →

Core Readings Theodor W. Adorno, “Meditations on Metaphysics,” in Negative Dialectics, trans. E. B. Ashton (New York: Continuum, 1973) Theodor Adorno, Hegel: Three Studies, trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993) Adorno. Dialectique et négativité, eds. Isabelle Aubert and… Continue Reading →

Core Readings G.W.F. Hegel, Science of Logic, trans. George di Giovanni (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). G.W.F. Hegel, Hegel’s Logic, Being Part One of the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830), trans. William Wallace (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975), available… Continue Reading →

Core Readings

Core Readings Louis Althusser, « Le retour à Hegel. Dernier mot du révisionnisme universitaire » [1950], p. 243-260, dans Écrits philosophiques et politiques, t. I, éd. par François Matheron (Paris: Stock-IMEC, 1994). Bruno Bosteels, “Hegel in America,” in Religion, Politics, and the Dialectic: Hegel and… Continue Reading →