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Speculative Philosophy

# Speculative-Philosophy

A curated list of books within the (mainly continental) tradition of speculative philosophy. The selection is designed to appeal all experience levels. Not to be confused with Speculative Realism!

Why read "speculative philosophy"?

Contents

Introductory Texts

  • Hegel in a Wired Brain this text serves as an excellent introduction to Hegelianism, it is fundamentally a re-presentation of the phenomenology, set in the epistemo-cosmology of computers and the culture there-in. Importantly, it is accessible. (The only concern I have of suggesting this first is that it may be too accessible, given the difficulty of most other things on this list).
  • The Melancholy Science - Gillian Rose
  • Dialectic of Enlightenment - Adorno & Horkheimer
  • Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher
  • Phenomenology of Spirit - Hegel (Preface & Introduction only!)

Supplemental Introductory texts

  • Philosophy in Germany 1831-1933 - Schnädelbach
  • A short history of ethics - MacIntyre Anyone reading continental philosophy at UG level should have a copy of this book!
  • Dialectic of Enlightenment - Adorno & Horkheimer

Core

Hegel

  • On Christianity: Early Theological Writings - Hegel [Recommended]
  • The Phenomenology of Spirit - Hegel (Terry Pinkard trs. suggested) [Required]
  • The Difference Between Fichte’s and Schelling’s System of Philosophy - Hegel
  • The Philosophy of Right - Hegel
Phenomenology companions

One of these should be read alongside the Phenomenology - Hegel's Ladder - H S Harris

Marx

  • 1844 Manuscripts
  • Gundrisse
  • Capital (not advised without extremely careful presentation)

Critical Theory

  • Marxism and Philosophy - Karl Korsch
  • History and Class Consciousness - Georg Lukacs
  • Main Currents of Marxism - Leszek Kołakowski

  • The Principle of Hope - Ernst Bloch

  • Hegel Contra Sociology - Gillian Rose

  • Judaism and Modernity - Gillian Rose

Essays

  • The Actuality of Philosophy - Theodore W. Adorno

### Marxist-Humanist - After Virtue

### Anti-Humanist - Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher - Fanged Noumena - Nick Land

Courses

Lectures