Eduardo Assalone, Ph.D., is a researcher at CONICET and a professor at the National University of Mar del Plata. His work explores Hegel’s social and political philosophy, with a focus on recognition and modern ethical life.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction1 The Torture of Tantalus: the Logical Structure of AssimilationIntroduction1 The Logical Life: Judgment and Genus from a Logical Point of View2 The Life-Process in Hegel’s Logic3 The Logic of AssimilationConcluding Remarks2 The Nature of Hunger: Assimilation in the Philosophy of Organic NatureIntroduction1 The Philosophy of Organic Nature: The Animal as Subject2 The Systematic Place of Assimilation in the Philosophy of Organic Nature3 The Theoretical Process, the Practical Process and the Formative DriveConcluding Remarks3 The Idealism of Desire: Consumption in Chapter IV of the Phenomenology of SpiritIntroduction1 Self-Consciousness and Life: the Animal’s Idealist Wisdom2 The Desire of Self-Consciousness3 From Real Assimilation to Formal Assimilation: from Consumption to WorkConcluding Remarks4 Between Diogenes and Marie Antoinette: Consumption in Civil SocietyIntroduction1 Human Needs and the Mediation of Work2 Assimilation in Consumption3 Culture and the Principle of Recognition in Fashion4 The Liberation of Natural Necessity and the Ambivalence of Luxury5 The Human/Animal Difference: the Multiplication of Human Needs6 The Division and Mechanization of Labor7 Universal Resources and the Police8 The Extremes of Consumption: the Rise of the Rabble9 Recognition and Estate Honor: the Corporation10 Recognition and ConsumptionConcluding RemarksConclusion1 Some Ethical Consequences2 Coda: the Ultimate AssimilationReferencesIndex

Eduardo Assalone, Ph.D., is a researcher at CONICET and a professor at the National University of Mar del Plata. His work explores Hegel’s social and political philosophy, with a focus on recognition and modern ethical life.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction1 The Torture of Tantalus: the Logical Structure of AssimilationIntroduction1 The Logical Life: Judgment and Genus from a Logical Point of View2 The Life-Process in Hegel’s Logic3 The Logic of AssimilationConcluding Remarks2 The Nature of Hunger: Assimilation in the Philosophy of Organic NatureIntroduction1 The Philosophy of Organic Nature: The Animal as Subject2 The Systematic Place of Assimilation in the Philosophy of Organic Nature3 The Theoretical Process, the Practical Process and the Formative DriveConcluding Remarks3 The Idealism of Desire: Consumption in Chapter IV of the Phenomenology of SpiritIntroduction1 Self-Consciousness and Life: the Animal’s Idealist Wisdom2 The Desire of Self-Consciousness3 From Real Assimilation to Formal Assimilation: from Consumption to WorkConcluding Remarks4 Between Diogenes and Marie Antoinette: Consumption in Civil SocietyIntroduction1 Human Needs and the Mediation of Work2 Assimilation in Consumption3 Culture and the Principle of Recognition in Fashion4 The Liberation of Natural Necessity and the Ambivalence of Luxury5 The Human/Animal Difference: the Multiplication of Human Needs6 The Division and Mechanization of Labor7 Universal Resources and the Police8 The Extremes of Consumption: the Rise of the Rabble9 Recognition and Estate Honor: the Corporation10 Recognition and ConsumptionConcluding RemarksConclusion1 Some Ethical Consequences2 Coda: the Ultimate AssimilationReferencesIndex