About the book: Foucault's work on biopolitics and governmentality has inspired a wide variety of responses, ranging from philosophy and political science to history, legal studies, and urban planning. Drawing on historical sources from antiquity to twentieth century liberalism, Foucault presented us with analyses of freedom, individuality, and power that cut right to the heart of these matters in the present. About the series: Sodertorn Philosophical Studies is a book series published under the direction of the Department of Philosophy at Sodertorn University, Sweden. The series consists of monographs and anthologies in philosophy, with a special focus on the Continental-European tradition. It seeks to provide a platform for innovative contemporary philosophical research. The volumes are published mainly in English and Swedish. The series is edited by Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback and Hans Ruin.

Translating Hegel - The Phenomenology of Spirit and Modern Philosophy: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit stands at the crossroads of modern philosophy. Taking us from the lowest and simplest level of sense-certainty through ever more complex forms of knowing and acting, Hegel's monumental work even-tually aspires to nothing less than a blueprint for absolute knowledge: a unity of subject and object, finite and infinite, man and world, a notion that has continually provoked new reactions and counterreactions throughout the course of modernity. Is Hegel's work the consummation of classical metaphysics or the dawn of something new? Is he a fundamentally Christian thinker or does he herald the death of God? Should we read him as a precursor to modern phenomenology and hermeneutics, sociology of knowledge, pragmatism, deconstruction? In short: do we need to translate Hegel into some modern vocabulary to make him relevant to the present? And if so, what would such a translation imply for our reading of his texts? Translating Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit and Modern Philosophy contains the contributions from a symposium organized on the occasion of the first Swedish translation of the Phenomenology. Bringing together a group of eminent Hegel scholars who address questions of translation and interpretation in the broadest sense, from historical hermeneutics to the actual practice of textual translation, it reveals the continued presence of Hegel in modern thought. Brian Manning Delaney is a translator and philosopher. Sven-Olov Wallenstein is Professor of Philosophy at Sodertorn University. About the series: Sodertorn Philosophical Studies is a book series published under the direction of the Department of Philosophy at Sodertorn University. The series consists of monographs and anthologies in philosophy, with a special focus on the Continental-European tradition. It seeks to provide a platform for innovative contemporary philosophical research. The volumes are published mainly in English and Swedish. The series is edited by Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback and Hans Ruin.

Beginning in an analysis of three paradigmatic instances of the encounter between art and technology in modernism-the invention of photography, the step beyond art in Futurism and Constructivism, and the interpretation of technology in debates on architectural theory in the 1920s and '30s-this book analyzes three philosophical responses to the question of nihilism-those of Walter Benjamin, Ernst J nger, and Martin Heidegger-all of which are characterized by an avant-garde sensibility that looks to art as a way to counter of the crisis of modernity.These responses are then brought to bear on the work of the architect Mies van der Rohe, whose "silence"-understood as a withdrawal of language, sense, and aesthetic perception-is analyzed as a key problem in the interpretation of the legacy of modernism.From this, a different understanding of nihilism, art, and technology emerges. These concepts form a field of constant modulation, which implies that the foundations of critical theory must be subjected to a historical analysis that acknowledges them as ongoing processes of construction, and that also accounts for the capacity of technologies and artistic practices to intervene in the formation of philosophical concepts.

Contents"French Philosophy Since 1945," Fredrika Spindler"Utopian Thinking in Past and Contemporary Times," Sinziana Ravini"Universal Modernism, Swedish Art Heroine," Charlotte Bydler"'Pastoral Power' and the Techniques for Controlling the Poor and Unemployed," Maurizio Lazzarato"Inventing a Silence," Alexandre Costanzo"The Ground Zero Mosque That Wasn't One: Media and Architecture in America," Joel McKim"Who's Afraid of Red, Blue and Yellow?," Sam Smiles"Water Lilies and the Gesture of Melancholy: On Monet's Late Works," Bente Larsen"Adorno and the Problem of Late Style," Sven-Olov Wallenstein"Introduction to 'Quality Education'," Kim West & Karl Lyd n"Cogito Ergo Insurgo The Italian University: Laboratory of Crisis and Critique," Sara R. Farris"On the Role of the University in the Age of Management Politics," Hans Ruin"The Multiple University and the Heroism of Forms: Variations on an Infinite Autonomy," St phane Douailler"Adventures in the Sausage Factory: A Cursory Overview of UK University Struggles, November 2010-2011," Danny Hayward"Dutch Austerity and Free Academies: An Interview With Katja Diefenbach," Karl Lyd n