Hegel and Resistance

Rebecca Comay is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution (2011), as well as many articles on Hegel, Benjamin and Adorno, psychoanalysis and aesthetics.Bart Zantvoort is Lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy, Leiden University, the Netherlands. His research focuses on the relation between social change and resistance to change in individuals, institutions and social structures more generally. He has published articles on Hegel, political inertia, Critical Theory and on Quentin Meillassoux.

• 1. Editors’ IntroductionPart I: Method2. Hegel, Resistance and MethodFrank Ruda (Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany)3. Resistance and Repetition: Freud and HegelRebecca Comay (University of Toronto, Canada)4. Dialectics as Resistance: Hegel, Benjamin, AdornoRocío Zambrana (University of Oregon, USA)Part II: Nature and History5. The Spirit of Resistance and its FateHoward Caygill (Kingston University London, UK)6. Subjectivity, Madness and Habit: Forms of Resistance in Hegel’s AnthropologyKirill Chepurin (HSE Moscow/Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)7. Inertia and Obsolescence in Hegel’s Theory of Social-Historical DevelopmentBart Zantvoort (University College Dublin)Part III: Politics8. Freedom and Dissent in Hegel’s Philosophy of RightKarin de Boer (University of Leuven, Belgium)9. Stages of an Inversive Right to Resistance in HegelKlaus Vieweg (University of Jena, Germany)10. Does the rabble resist Hegel’s Philosophy of Right?Louis Carré (FRS/FNRS/Centre for Political Theory Brussels, Belgium)Index

Hegel and Resistance is a beautifully conceived collection of stellar essays. Its contributions combine an amazing amount of depth and breadth in reassessing the significance of Hegel’s philosophy for our times. Hegelian thought is put into dialogue with the history of philosophy, political theory and practice, psychoanalysis, and multiple contemporary debates. Anyone interested in the recent ‘return to Hegel’ absolutely must engage with Hegel and Resistance. Moreover, I anticipate that, forever after this volume’s publication, nobody will be able to discuss Hegel without also discussing resistance—resistances in, to, and of Hegel.