The book titled, “Hegel’s Ontology of Power: The Structure of Social Domination in Capitalism” written by Prof. Arash Abazari, faculty member of the Philosophy of Science Group of SUT, has been published by Cambridge University Press.
The book description as posted in the related is as follows:
Recent attempts to revitalize Hegel’s social and political philosophy have tended to be doubly constrained: firstly, by their focus on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right; and secondly, by their broadly liberal interpretive framework. Challenging that trend, Arash Abazari shows that the locus of Hegel’s genuine critical social theory is to be sought in his ontology – specifically in the ‘logic of essence’ of the Science of Logic. Mobilizing ideas from Marx and Adorno, Abazari unveils the hidden critical import of Hegel’s logic. He argues that social domination in capitalism obtains by virtue of the illusion of equality and freedom; shows how relations of opposition underlie the seeming pluralism in capitalism; and elaborates on the deepest ground of domination, i.e. the totality of capitalist social relations. Overall, his book demonstrates that Hegel’s logic can and should be read politically.
About the author
Arash Abazari is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at SUT, Iran. He got his M.A. from University of Essex in 2008, and got his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 2017. Prof. Abazari’s research interests are German Idealism (especially Hegel), Social and Political Philosophy.