Core Readings
Louis Althusser, “On Content in the Thought of G. W. F. Hegel,” in The Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings, trans. G. M. Goshgarian, ed. François Matheron (New York: Verso, 2014 [1947]) (master’s thesis), https://www.versobooks.com/products/1576-the-spectre-of-hegel.
Jacques Martin, L’individu chez Hegel, ed. Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod (Paris: ENS Éditions, 2020 [1947]) (master’s thesis).
Michel Foucault, La constitution d’un transcendantal historique dans la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel. Mémoire du diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie (Paris, Vrin: 2024 [1949]) (master’s thesis).
Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, trans. Paul Patton (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994 [1968]) (principal thesis for the Doctorat D’État).
Jacques Derrida, Glas, trans. John P. Leavey, Jr. and Richard Rand (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986 [1974]).
Bruno Bosteels, “Difference,” in Finitude (work-in-progress).
Additional Readings
Bernard E. Harcourt, “A Preface to Experience,” foreword to Michel Foucault, Binswanger and Existential Analysis, trans. Marie McDonough (New York: Columbia University Press, 2025).
Pierre Macherey, “Did Foucault Find a ‘Way Out’ of Hegel?,” Theory, Culture & Society, 40(1-2), 19-36 (2022), available at https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764221084903.
Oliver Roberts-Garratt, “Foucault’s Hegel Thesis: The ‘Tragic Destiny’ of Life and the ‘Being-There’ of Consciousness,” Foucault Studies, no. 36 (September 2024): 443-469, available at https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.i36.7227.
Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod, La Naissance de l’anti-hégélianisme. Louis Althusser et Michel Foucault, lecteurs de Hegel(Paris: ENS Éditions, 2022).