Description: This book integrates Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit and contemporary conversations about energy. By interpreting actuality as energy in the Hegelian corpus, the author provides a new lens for understanding the dialectical project and the energy-starved condition of our contemporaneity.
Review Quotes: "All good books on Hegel's Phenomenology read it through the lenses of a particular concept (usually struggle for recognition). Marder's choice of energy gives us a Hegel who is our contemporary, close to Freud's libido and today's biology. It works triumphantly--I predict it will become an indispensable tool for understanding not only Hegel but also our world, the mess we're in." --Slavoj Zizek, coeditor of Subject Lessons: Hegel, Lacan, and the Future of Materialism