Lawrence Stanley 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 oft ...

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 on "''Henri Bergson's Concept of Man: An Exposition and Critique''". He joined the

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faculty in 1964 retired in 1996 and became a

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of philosophy there.

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 Rationalist in philosophy, politics and Biblical criticism. Bauer investigated the sources of the New T ...

'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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