Remnants of Hegel

Félix Duque is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Nicholas Walker has translated many books, including Thomas Hobbes (by Otfried Höffe), also published by SUNY Press.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I. Substrate and Subject (Hegel in the Aftermath of Aristotle) 1. Aristotle: A Certain Underlying Nature and the Individual "Thing"2. Not Substance, But Just as Much Subject3. The Reflexive Movement of Thinking4. The Unveiling of Substance as the Genesis of the Concept5. Begging the Question of BeginningPart II. Hegel on the Death of Christ(Ich bin der Kampf selbst) 1. The Infinite Value of Subjectivity2. The Death of Christ and the Commencement of History3. The Strange Heart of Reason4. "I Am the Unity of Fire and Water"5. Natural Death and the Death of DeathPart III. Death Is a Gulp of Water(La Terreur in World History) 1. Hegel and the Revolution—After Marxism2. Living and Thinking One’s Own Time3. A Literal Reading of Hegel4. Hegel’s Two "Terrors"5. Metal and Water: Beheading and Drowning6. Fanaticism as a Chemical Precipitate7. An Inverted Allegory of the Cave8. From Absolute Negativity to the Element of FreedomPart IV. Person, Freedom, and Community 1. The Entire Remnant of the Idea2. Person as a Relational Nature3. Abstract Right and Legal Recognition4. Ethical Life and Bourgeois Virtues5. A Strange Sort of RedemptionPart V. The Errancy of Reason (The Perishing of the Community) 1. The Devil, the Good Lord, and Human Blood2. Man as the Possibility of God: Passio Christi 3. Cultus and Eucharist as Manducatio Spiritualis 4. The Spirit as the Wound of Time5. The Fullness of Time as the Exhaustion of TimeNotesIndex

"Duque's undeniable erudition is on full display in Remnants of Hegel. Throughout this book, Duque deftly and subtly shifts between and analogizes metaphysical, political, and religious frames with the ease of a scholar who knows the material deeply and intimately … there is much food for thought within its pages." — Reading Religion"Félix Duque is arguably the most important living philosopher in the Spanish-speaking world." — Phenomenological Reviews"This is the work of an important philosopher, with a lifetime of ideas and research to draw on. It is a great book on Hegel and a great book of philosophy in its own right." — Jay Lampert, author of Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy of History"As a contribution to the field, this book does the admirable work of bringing to the fore the interrelated problems of religion and death as fundamentally philosophical problems. The author is refreshingly well versed in theological debates surrounding the Eucharist and their philosophical import for Hegel. There is much insight here for scholars, especially of the analytic, anti-metaphysical school of Hegel studies. They may not walk away convinced that Hegel's metaphysics is mediated by religion, but they will certainly see the plausibility of such a reading. For other Hegel scholars, the book is a treasure trove of insightful ways of framing Hegel's project." — Brent Adkins, author of Death and Desire: In Hegel, Heidegger, and Deleuze