Author: Bernard E. Harcourt

Core Readings Judith Butler, “Why Read Hegel Now?” Crisis & Critique, Vol. 8, Issue 2 (2021): 41-55 Judith Butler, “To Sense What is Living in the Other: Hegel’s Early Love” from Senses of the Subject (Fordham University Press, 2015) Judith Butler,… Continue Reading →

Core Readings Alain Badiou, Theory of the Subject, trans. Bruno Bosteels (London: Continuum, 2009), please focus on Part I, pp. 1-50 and Part III, pp. 111-176. Alain Badiou, The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic, trans. Tzuchien Tho (Melbourne: re:press,… Continue Reading →

Core Readings Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, trans. Paul Patton (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994 [1968]) (principal thesis for the Doctorat D’État). Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod, La révolution trahie : Deleuze contre Hegel (Villeneuve d’Ascq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2023)

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 →