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Gregory Marks

Weekly essays in literature and philosophy | Explorations of speculative poetics | Monthly articles on the close reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

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The True is the Whole

Max Ernst, Composition (1917).

This article is part of a monthly series on the Preface to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, adapted from my lectures on the topic for the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy in 2024. Quotations fr...

18 days ago
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“Think backwards, not forwards”

Marion Milner, A Life of One’s Own
Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebooks
Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Volume I
Antonia Pont, Plain Life


Prompted by a recent article in the Sydney Review of Books, I took it upon myse...

2 months ago
14

Hegel Contra Formalism

Remedios Varo, The Useless Science (1958).

This article is part of a monthly series on the Preface to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, adapted from my lectures on the topic for the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy in 2024. Q...

2 months ago
22

How Is Literature Possible?

This paper was originally delivered as a lecture to undergraduate students undertaking a subject on literary theory, and is addressed in an informal mode. The previous weeks included a smattering of Aristotle, Kant, and a primer on close...

2 months ago
84

The Rational Desire of Criticism

Francisco de Goya, Disasters of War, no. 71 (1814-15).

1. The desire of criticism is that its object is rational; that this object has its own rationality. As Northrop Frye observes, “criticism cannot be a systematic study unless there...

2 months ago
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