Lawrence S. Stepelevich (July 22, 1930 – August 14, 2022) was an

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associated with a renewed interest in the works of

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, particularly since the fall of the

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, with less emphasis placed on

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's interpretations than had previously been the case. Stepelevich also wrote on the works of

Max Stirner Johann Kaspar Schmidt (25 October 1806 – 26 June 1856), known professionally as Max Stirner, was a German post-Hegelian philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness. Stirner is often seen a ...

Education and career

Stepelevich graduated from the

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in 1954. He went to the

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for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1957 and completing his PhD in 1963. He joined the

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faculty in 1964, retired in 1996, and was a

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of philosophy at Villanova.

Contributions

Stepelevich is the author of ''Max Stirner on the Path of Doubt'' (2020). He is the editor of books including ''The Capitalist Reader'' (1977), ''The Young Hegelians: An Anthology'' (1983), ''Hegel's Philosophy of Action'' (1983). and ''Selected Essays On G W F Hegel'' (1993). He is the translator into English of

Bruno Bauer Bruno Bauer (; 6 September 180913 April 1882) was a German philosopher and theologian. As a student of G. W. F. Hegel, Bauer was a radical Rationalism, Rationalist in philosophy, politics and Biblical criticism. Bauer investigated the sources of ...

's ''The Trumpet of the Last Judgement against Hegel, the Atheist and Antichrist: An Ultimatum'' (1989). From 1977 to 1996 Stepelevich was editor of ''The Owl of Minerva'', the journal of

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. He was president of the society for the 1996–1998 term.Minutes from the HSA's Fourteenth Biennial Meeting, 1996
an

retrieved 2021-06-05.

References

External links

Lecture on the Problem with Marx
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