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’ Introduction

Part I: Method
2. Hegel, Resistance and Method
Frank Ruda (Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany)
3. Resistance and Repetition: Freud and Hegel
Rebecca Comay (University of Toronto, Canada)
4. Dialectics as Resistance: Hegel, Benjamin, Adorno
Rocío Zambrana (University of Oregon, USA)

Part II: Nature and History
5. The Spirit of Resistance and its Fate
Howard Caygill (Kingston University London, UK)
6. Subjectivity, Madness and Habit: Forms of Resistance in Hegel’s Anthropology
Kirill Chepurin (HSE Moscow/Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
7. Inertia and Obsolescence in Hegel’s Theory of Social-Historical Development
Bart Zantvoort (University College Dublin)

Part III: Politics
8. Freedom and Dissent in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
Karin de Boer (University of Leuven, Belgium)
9. Stages of an Inversive Right to Resistance in Hegel
Klaus 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