The Problem of Nature in Hegel's Final System

Wes Furlotte critically evaluates Hegel’s philosophy of human freedom in terms of his often—disregarded conception of nature. In doing so, he gives us a new portrait of Hegel’s final system that is surprisingly relevant for our contemporary world, connecting it with recent work in speculative realism and new materialism.
Furlotte offers a sophisticated sense of the fundamental materialism permeating Hegel’s concept of freedom and how the former serves as the inescapable precondition of subje...