Karen Ng
@karenkyng.bsky.social
philosophy at Vanderbilt | nature, ethical life, and the ruthless critique of everything existing | author of Hegel’s Concept of Life (OUP 2020), winner of Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize http://bit.ly/4h7mk5v | https://karen-ng.com
Thanks @evanthompson.bsky.social! Mind in Life is a huge source of inspiration.
Evan Thompson@evanthompson.bsky.social · 3w agoI'm enjoying reading and highly recommend @karenkyng.bsky.social's book Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic, especially for enactivistas looking for life after Kant academic.oup.com/book/37427
I reviewed @vcwills.bsky.social’s excellent book for Constellations karen-ng.com/wp-content/u...
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coming up in January www.tickettailor.com/events/aheve...
Select tickets – Nature in the Social World II: Karen Ng on "What is the Gattungsprozess?" – Zoom
Nature in the Social World II: Karen Ng on "What is the Gattungsprozess?" – Zoom, Mon 12 Jan 2026 - Karen Ng's monograph Hegel's Concept of Life has become an essential reading for scholars and studen...
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🚨new publication🚨 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆 in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025. Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
Recognition as an Ethic of Living Beings by @karenkyng.bsky.social www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/57...
Updated website, now with links to all PDFs after deleting academia dot edu check it out! karen-ng.com
Karen Ng
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New paper, “Adorno and Hegel on Subject and Object,” now out in the OUP Handbook of Adorno www.academia.edu/143573230/Ad...
Adorno and Hegel on Subject and Object (2025)
This chapter focuses on assessing the significance of Hegel's infuence on two key pillars of Adorno's thought: first, his critique of constitutive subjectivity; and second, his priority of the...
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My paper, “Species-Being, Metabolism, and Natural Limits” is now out in Qui Parle
Species-Being, Metabolism, and Natural Limits, Qui Parle (2025)
This essay explores two key concepts in the work of Karl Marx and argues for their essential interconnection: species-being and natural limits. The first section provides a general account of the idea...
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Check out my book, Hegel’s Concept of Life, OUP 2020
Ng Wins Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize - Daily Nous
The Journal of the History of Philosophy has announced that the winner of its 2021 Book Prize is Karen Ng, associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Professor Ng won the prize for he...
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My review of Edgar Maraguat’s True Purposes in Hegel’s Logic out in European Journal of Philosophy www.academia.edu/129935372/Re...
Review of Edgar Maraguat's True Purposes in Hegel's Logic, European Journal of Philosophy (2025)
Edgar Maraguat's book, True Purposes in Hegel's Logic, adds to the growing literature on Hegel's neo-Aristotelian approach to teleology and life, arguing that Hegel defends a conception of...
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