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Dr Joshua Wretzel is the Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, specialising in social and political philosophy, Kant and German Idealism, hermeneutics, phenomenology, and the philosophy of art and logic. Prof Wretzel’s work on German philosophy is published in journals such as the European Journal of Philosophy, Hegel Bulletin, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, and Continental Philosophy Review. He’s also co-editor of Cambridge’s Hegel’s Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences: A Critical Guide, Routledge’s Hegel’s Encyclopedic System and is currently co-editor of the Cambridge Elements series on the philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel. In this episode, we discussed Žižek vs. Pinkard, the Pittsburgh School of Philosophy, Hegel in analytic philosophy, Hegelianism and American pragmatism and contradictions in Hegelian philosophy.
You can find more of Dr Wretzel's work at https://philosophy.la.psu.edu/people/jiw10/.
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Dr Joshua Wretzel is the Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, specialising in social and political philosophy, Kant and German Idealism, hermeneutics, phenomenology, and the philosophy of art and logic. Prof Wretzel’s work on German philosophy is published in journals such as the European Journal of Philosophy, Hegel Bulletin, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, and Continental Philosophy Review. He’s also co-editor of Cambridge’s Hegel’s Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences: A Critical Guide, Routledge’s Hegel’s Encyclopedic System and is currently co-editor of the Cambridge Elements series on the philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel. In this episode, we discussed Žižek vs. Pinkard, the Pittsburgh School of Philosophy, Hegel in analytic philosophy, Hegelianism and American pragmatism and contradictions in Hegelian philosophy.
You can find more of Dr Wretzel's work at https://philosophy.la.psu.edu/people/jiw10/.
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substack.com/@trsam
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youtu.be/UvQH1ZBfWSk?si=HRdvuZNv4drwPns1
youtube.com/live/3deVNo03awg?si=QvX32LXfY62ayNWA
mediationsjournal.org/articles/back-to-hegel
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-26597-7_28
youtu.be/0EgS6jeP59M?si=kJuXVNuDstA8IbXy
cambridge.org/core/books/abs/hegels-encyclopedia-of-the-philosophical-sciences/hegels-critique-of-materialism/F9943005F304E7CF083D4F2FBC77B47B
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"Supapao - Can't Fall In Love" is under a Free To Use YouTube license
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