I lived for many years in Athens, Greece during the crisis there, then returned home to the US and now am working on completing my PhD. I had a youthful interest in Hegel, published a book in Greece, and now have returned to that focus for my dissertation.
Alexander R. Hufford
Doctoral Fellow
Period at the center: October 2025 – June 2026
Research Project: Philosophy Rejuvenated: Hegel, Philosophy, Revolution and the End of History
Email: Alexander.hufford@stonybrook.edu
Research Project
Philosophy Rejuvenated: Hegel, Philosophy, Revolution and the End of History
This study aims to examine Hegel’s Philosophy and its continuation in the Young Hegelians like Marx, Bauer, Cieszkowski and Hess. By using these Young Hegelians to propose updating Hegel’s Philosophy of History and understanding his political positions and overall system better, we can rejuvenate Hegel’s philosophy for today, in a changed period of history.
Selected publications
Translations
Translation from the French of Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron’s article, “The Lectures of Hegel on the History of Philosophy” (forthcoming in The Owl of Minerva*, journal of the Hegel Society of America)
Academic Theses
“Seneca and the Authorship of the Apocolocyntosis,” summary of MA thesis published on the Substack of Dr. Donald J. Robertson, January 2025. Available here.
“Seneca and the Authorship of the Apocolocyntosis,” MA Classics Dissertation, University of Wales Trinity St. David, 2022. Available here.
Articles
“Philosophy Rejuvenated: An Introduction to Hegelian Anarchism” [“Φιλοσοφια Αναζωογονημενη: εισαγωγη στον εγελιανο αναρχισμο”] (Athens: Futura publications, 2016). Available here.
“1917, interpreted philosophically” [“Το 1917, ερμηνευμενο φιλοσοφικα”], in Lenin ist kaputt! (Athens: Futura publications, 2018). Available here.