Matthew Rukgaber

Biographic Data

ID459489
NAMEMatthew Rukgaber
GIVEN NAMESMatthew
FAMILY NAMERukgaber
SIGNATURERUKGABER M
AFFILIATIONSGateWay Community College
ORCID0000-0003-2688-728X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Human as the Other

    Matthew RukgaberBOOKHuman as the Other2025

    Philosophical anthropology investigates what makes us human, but it has produced accounts that exclude some members of our species.It relies often on non-naturalistic "philosophies of consciousness" that locate humanity in the cognitive capacity to objectively represent things, to reason teleologically and use tools, to use symbols and language, or to be self-conscious and question existence. This work pursues an alternative, thoroughly naturalis…

  • Space, Time, and the Origins of Transcendental Idealism

    Matthew RukgaberBOOKSpace, Time, and the Origins of…2020

  • Hegel’s Theory of Terrorism and Derrida’s Notion of Autoimmunity

    Open AccessMatthew RukgaberARTICLEHegel Bulletin2018

    Rather than model Hegel’s account of terrorism on the struggle for recognition and against domination, I maintain that his account is best understood according to Derrida’s notion of autoimmunity. The logic of autoimmunity models terrorism as a symbolic, suicidal act of violence that is created by and directed against the violence of hegemony. It is also continually stimulated by a messianic and nihilistic ideal. This article provides a historica…

  • Immaterial Spirits and the Reform of First Philosophy

    Matthew RukgaberARTICLEJournal of the History of Ideas2018

    This article argues that Kant's early metaphysics (1755-1764) remains unscathed by the arguments found in the 1766 work, Dreams of a Spirit-Seer. I expose the errors of the standard approaches to Dreams, which take the text to be either entirely opposed to metaphysics or at least critical of all present forms of metaphysics, Kant's own early work included. Through a close reading of the text of Dreams, I show that Kant's early metaphysics remains…

  • Social Phenomenology, Mass-Society and the Individual in Hegel and Heidegger

    Open AccessMatthew RukgaberARTICLEHegel Bulletin2017

    This article argues that Hegel’s dialectic of wealth and power in the stage of social development called ‘culture’ ( Bildung ) reveals that even in moments of profound social alienation, Spirit ( Geist )—the labour of constructing identity and freedom—remains. This stands in sharp contrast to Heidegger’s theory of alienation and Dasein’s ‘publicity’ ( Offentlichkeit ), which paints modern social existence as a profound threat to the very ‘Being’ …

  • The Asymmetry of Space

    Open AccessMatthew Rukgaber, Matthew S RukgaberARTICLEKantian Review2016

    I propose that we interpret Kant’s argument from incongruent counterparts in the 1768 article ‘Concerning the Ultimate Ground of the Differentiation of Directions in Space’ in light of a theory of dynamic absolute space that he accepted throughout the 1750s and 1760s. This force-based or material conception of space was not an unusual interpretation of the Newtonian notion of absolute space. Nevertheless, commentators have continually argued that…

  • The “Sovereign Individual” and the “Ascetic Ideal”

    Matthew RukgaberARTICLEThe Journal of Nietzsche Studies2012Cited by: 1References: 1

    This article supports Lawrence Hatab's and Christa Davis Acampora's interpretation that the “sovereign individual” is not Nietzsche's positive ethical ideal. I draw on overlooked evidence from the Nachlass that bears on the notion of sovereignty, in conjunction with offering a close reading of the passages concerning this figure within the second and third essays of On the Genealogy of Morality. I argue that the second essay is not concerned with…