Philosophy, Freedom, Language, and their Others

Elias Kifon Bongmba is Harry and Hazel Chavanne Chair in Christian Theology, and Professor of Religion, Rice University, USA. Robert Manzinger earned his PhD from the University of Denver, USA and the Iliff School of Theology, USA.

Introduction

1. Hegel From Reason to Freedom, William Maker (Clemson University, USA)
2. Hegel’s Speculative Sentence: Freedom From Presuppositions, Stephen Houlgate (Warwick University, USA)
3. The Subversive Politics of Hegel’s Speculative Sentence, Jeffrey Reid (University of Ottawa, Canada)
4. Remembering the Future: Freedom From Slavery, Jared Niefts (University of Denver, USA)
5. Freedom and the Linguistic Turn in Kant’s Critique of Judgment, Frank Schalow (University of New Orleans, USA)
6. Surber and Kripke on A posteriori Necessity, William Anderson
7. Freedom at Risk: Guy Debord, Donald Trump and the State of the Spectacle, Gary Percesepe (Fordham University, USA)
8. Freedom, Aesthetics, and Breaking News, Andreas Dörner (Phiipps-Universität Marburg, Germany) and Ludgera Vogt (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany)
9. Kant’s Language of the Sublime in Contemporary Novels and its Metacritique, Miglena Dikova-Milanova (Ghent University, Belgium)
10. Memory and the Politics of Patrimony, Shaw Smith
11. Humor as a Philosophical-Religious Boundary in Soren Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Robert Manzinger (USA)
12. Mandela’s Spiritual Politics, Elias Kifon Bongmba (Rice University, USA)

Afterword by Professor Jere Surber

Index