“Hegel and his Critics”
A Conference of the Hegel Society of Great Britain
September 4 – 5, 2025 at St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Conference Programme
Thursday, 4th September
12.45: Conference registration
1.30-3.00: Dan Watts (University of Essex): “Paradoxes at the Limits: Kierkegaard’s Corrective to Hegel”
Chair:
Coffee break
3.30-5.00: Sebastian Stein (Universität Heidelberg): “Two recent Marxist appropriations of Hegel”
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5.30-7.00: Stephen Houlgate (University of Warwick): “Schopenhauer and Hegel”
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7.30: Dinner
8.45 AGM
Friday, 5th September
9.30-11.00: Claudia Wirsing (Technische Universität Braunschweig / Universität Münster): “The Difference between Brandom’s and Hegel’s Concepts of Legal Norm Justification”
Chair:
Coffee break
Early Career Session
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11.30-12.15: Shangrong Li (Universität Bonn): “Hegel’s Concept of Freedom in the Critique of the later Schelling”
12.15-1.00: Marco Rienzi (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano): “The Groundless Ground: Hegel contra Deleuze”
1.00: Lunch
2.00-3.30: Robb Dunphy (University of Sussex): “Contradiction in Hegel’s Thought: On the Alien Structure of the Rational”
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3.30 Conference ends