On Hegel's Philosophy of Right

Peter Trawny is Professor of Philosophy at Bergische University, Wuppertal, Germany. He is the co-editor of Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe, or the complete works.Marcia Cavalcante Schuback is Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University, Sweden. The translator of Heidegger's Being and Time into Portuguese, her books include Praise of Nothingness: Essays on Philosophical Hermeneutics (2006) and The Beginning of God: An Inquiry into Schelling's Late Philosophy (1998).Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz. He is the author of, most recently, Phenomena—Critique—Logos: The Project of Critical Phenomenology (2014); and The Philosopher’s Plant: An Intellectual Herbarium (2014).Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is regarded as one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers.

• PART I. Understanding Heidegger’s 1934-5 Seminar on Hegel’s Philosophy of RightChapter 1: Heidegger, Hegel, and the Political (Peter Trawny)Chapter 2: Hegel in 1933 (Susanna Lindberg)Chapter 3: The Question of Political Existence: Hegel, Heidegger, Schmitt (Michael Marder)Chapter 4: Politics and Ontological Difference in Heidegger (Alexandre Franco de Sá)Chapter 5: Self-Assertion as Founding (Richard Polt)Chapter 6: Philosophy without Right? Some Notes on Heidegger’s Notes for the 1934/35 ‘Hegel Seminar’ (Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback & Michael Marder)PART II. Martin Heidegger: HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT. Winter Semester, 1934-35Index

The notes from Heidegger’s seminar on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right are an indispensable source for any serious understanding of Heidegger’s relation to National Socialism as well as his conception of politics more generally. Readers of Andrew Mitchell’s excellent translation are fortunate that in this volume they will find half a dozen thoughtful essays to guide them through this important but enigmatic text.