A day of close reading and open discussion around W. Clark Wolf's new book, hosted at the house where Hegel was born.
W. Clark Wolf's Hegel's Inversion of Philosophy offers a sharp rereading of the Science of Logic and the broader Hegelian project. At its center stands what Wolf calls the artifactual paradigm: the claim that, for Hegel, the human, made world is not merely different in kind from the given world of nature but philosophically more fundamental. From this thesis the book develops a penetrating treatment of substance and the structures of inference, and extends its reading across the political philosophy, the philosophy of nature, and the aesthetics.
A Hegel whose core concerns diverge sharply from those of the tradition — a Hegel who puts the human, made world front and center. — Sebastian Rand
This workshop brings together six critics of the manuscript — working in Germany, the UK, and the United States — to press the book's central claims, to explore their consequences for contemporary debates in German Idealism, and to open the discussion to the broader philosophical questions Wolf's artifactual paradigm raises. Each session pairs a short intervention with an extended, collective conversation.
The Hegel-Haus, in the old town of Stuttgart, is the birthplace of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) and today serves as a small museum and seat of Hegelian scholarship in the city. Its rooms preserve documents, editions, and traces of the philosopher's early life and later reception.
The building is about ten minutes on foot from Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof. Attendance at the workshop is open; seating is limited by the dimensions of the room.
For attendance enquiries and all other correspondence, please write to the organisers.