Kan man bygga en politisk filosofi på människors beroenden och sårbarhet istället för på deras självständighet, socialitet eller förnuftskapacitet? I sin analys och omformulering av den politisk-filosofiska frågan om erkännande lyfter Victoria Fareld fram Hegels aktualitet, via en diskussion av främst Charles Taylors bruk av dennes tänkande. Fareld argumenterar för en filosofi som utgår från människors utsatthet – en vidkännandets filosofi. Men Hegel är en obändig bundsförvant. Samtidigt s...

The relation between Hegel and Marx is among the most interpreted in the history of philosophy. Given the contemporary renaissance of Marx and Marxist theories, how should we re-read the Hegel-Marx connection today? What place does Hegel have in contemporary critical thinking?Most schools of Marxism regard Marx's inversion of Hegel's dialectics as a progressive development, leaving behind Hegel's idealism by transforming it into a materialist critique of political economy. Other Ma...

Representations of violence surround us in everyday life – in news reports, films and novels – inviting interpretation and raising questions about the ethics of viewing or reading about harm done to others. How can we understand the processes of meaning-making involved in interpreting violent events and experiences? And can these acts of interpretation themselves be violent by reproducing the violence that they represent? This book examines the ethics of engaging with violent stories from ...