PLEASE NOTE this is a sample reading list for the 2015-16 academic year
– precise seminar content may change from year to year.
Primary Texts
The Hegel Reader, ed. S. Houlgate (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998).
Karl Marx, Selected Writings, ed. D. McLellan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977, 2000).
Alternatives to the Hegel Reader:
G.W.F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. A.V. Miller (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977).
G.W.F. Hegel, Outlines of the Philosophy of Right, trans. T.M. Knox, ed. S. Houlgate (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2008).
G.W.F. Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right, trans. H.B. Nisbet, ed. A.W. Wood (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1991)
The Hegel Reader contains all the Hegel material that we will study during this module (as well as a
selection of other texts and lectures by Hegel). However, if you would prefer to read the whole of the
Phenomenology and / or the Philosophy of Right, then you should get the Miller translation of the former
and / or one of the translations of the latter.
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Secondary Texts: Hegel: General
F. Beiser, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Hegel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
F. Beiser, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2008).
J.N. Findlay, Hegel: A Re-examination (New York: Oxford University Press, 1958).
S. Houlgate, An Introduction to Hegel. Freedom, Truth and History, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005).
S. Houlgate and M. Baur, eds. A Companion to Hegel (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).
R. Pippin, Hegel's Idealism. The Satisfactions of Self-consciousness (Cambridge: C.U.P., 1989).
R. Stern, ed., G.W.F. Hegel: Critical Assessments, 4 vols. (London: Routledge, 1993).
C. Taylor, Hegel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975).
Hegel: Phenomenology
H.G. Gadamer, Hegel's Dialectic. Five Hermeneutical Studies, trans. P.C. Smith (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1976).
M. Heidegger, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, translated by P. Emad and K. Maly (Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1988).
S. Houlgate, Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. A Reader’s Guide (London: Bloomsbury, 2013).
S. Houlgate, “Is Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit an Essay in Transcendental Argument?”, in The
Transcendental Turn, ed. S. Gardner and M. Grist (Oxford: OUP, 2015).
J. Hyppolite, Genesis and Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, translated by S. Cherniak and J.
Heckman (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1974).
A. Kojève, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the "Phenomenology of Spirit", edited by A.
Bloom, translated by J. H. Nichols, Jr. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980).
Q. Lauer, A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (New York: Fordham University Press, 1976).
J. O'Neill, ed., Hegel's Dialectic of Desire and Recognition: Texts and Commentary (Albany: SUNY, 1996).
T. Pinkard, Hegel's Phenomenology. The Sociality of Reason (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
R.B. Pippin, Hegel on Self-Consciousness. Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2011).
J. Russon, Reading Hegel's Phenomenology (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004).
R. Stern, Hegel and the Phenomenology of Spirit (London: Routledge, 2002)
J. Stewart, ed. The Phenomenology of Spirit Reader (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998).
K. Westphal, ed. The Blackwell Guide to the Phenomenology of Spirit (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
M. Westphal, History and Truth in Hegel's Phenomenology (1979) (Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1998).
R. Williams, Recognition. Fichte and Hegel on the Other (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992).
Hegel: Philosophy of Right
S. Avineri, Hegel's Theory of the Modern State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972).
T. Brooks, Hegel’s Political Philosophy. A Systematic Reading of the Philosophy of Right (Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press, 2007).
L. Herzog, Inventing the Market. Smith, Hegel and Political Theory (Oxford: OUP, 2013).
D. James, Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. Subjectivity and Ethical Life (London: Continuum, 2007).
D. Knowles, Hegel and the Philosophy of Right (London: Routledge, 2002).
F. Neuhouser, Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory (Cambridge MA: Harvard UP, 2000).
Z.A. Pelczynski, ed., Hegel's Political Philosophy. Problems and Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1971).
Z.A. Pelczynski, ed., The State and Civil Society. Studies in Hegel's Political Philosophy (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1984).
J. Ritter, Hegel and the French Revolution: Essays on the Philosophy of Right, translated and with an
introduction by R.D. Winfield (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982).
R. Williams, Hegel's Ethics of Recognition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).
R. Williams, ed., Beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism. Studies In Hegel's Philosophy of Right (Albany:
SUNY, 2001).
A. W. Wood, Hegel's Ethical Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
Marx
L. Althusser, For Marx, trans. B. Brewster (London: Verso, 1979).
S. Avineri, The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968).
A. Callinicos, Marxism and Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985).
A. Chitty and M. McIvor, eds. Karl Marx and Contemporary Philosophy (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan,
2009).
G. Cohen, Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978).
J. Elster, An Introduction to Karl Marx (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).
D. Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Capital (London: Verso, 2010).
D. McLellan, Karl Marx (St Albans: Paladin, 1976).
The Cambridge Companion to Marx, ed. T. Carver (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
R. Williams, Marxism and Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977).
J. Wolff, Why Read Marx Today? (Oxford: OUP, 2002).