Table of Contents

• Preface
• Part I. Prolegomena to the Dialectics of Energy
• Part II. The Phenomenology of Spirit & the Question of Energy: An Exegesis
• Introduction: The Energy of Cognition
• A. “Mere” Consciousness and Its Energy Deficit
• 1. Sense-certainty: “this is,” “I am”… but all “this” “is” not energy
• 2. Perception: the non-actual reality of seeing without seeing oneself see
• 3. Force and understanding: literally crystal-clear and unburdened by the energy of thinking
• B. Self-consciousness and Its Surplus Energy
• 4. The truth of self-certainty: beyond the living energy of life
• C. Reason and the Self-Limitation of Energy
• 5. The certainty and truth of reason: reality rediscovered
• Notes
• Index

About the Author

Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz. He is the author of fourteen books, including Heidegger: Phenomenology, Ecology, Politics; Energy Dreams: Of Actuality; and, with Luce Irigaray, Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives.

Reviews

"All good books on Hegel's Phenomenology read it through the lenses of a particular concept (usually struggle for recognition). Marder's choice of energy gives us a Hegel who is our contemporary, close to Freud's libido and today's biology. It works triumphantly--I predict it will become an indispensable tool for understanding not only Hegel but also our world, the mess we're in." --Slavoj Zizek, coeditor of Subject Lessons: Hegel, Lacan, and the Future of Materialism