Alexander R. Hufford

As a young man, I lived for many years in Athens, Greece during the financial crisis there, and this gave me a lasting connection to classical education, while combining it with contemporary political concerns as mediated through the legacy of Hegel. This informs my research as I try to navigate the radical legacy of Hegel through the Young Hegelians and contemporary revolutions, all while trying to relate this to the classical heritage that was so appreciated by Hegel. I also have a pedagogical focus on the necessity of Great Books through this experience, feeling that these are the necessary building blocks for understanding the modern world and its philosophy. Finally I try to connect Hegel and the legacy of revolution both to this classical past and to the medieval world, tracing the threads of more esoteric historical philosophy such as that of Joachim of Fiore as part of Hegel’s wide-ranging synthesis. Taken together these constitute my interests and driving focus in dealing with Hegel and his successors.

Area of Competence
Ancient Philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, through the Stoics, and including Neo-Platonism), Introduction to Western Civilization/Great Books

Research Interests
Hegel, Young Hegelians, intersection of Hegelianism with ancient philosophy and medieval philosophy

Peer-Reviewed Article

My article “Hegel’s Philosophy of History, Cieszkowksi, Bauer, and the Russian-Revolutionary Age” will be published in the journal Dissonancia.

Book 

While in Greece I wrote a study on Hegel in 2016 that was published in Greek as Φιλοσοφια Αναζωογονημενη: εισαγωγη στον εγελιανο αναρχισμο with the English title Philosophy Rejuvenated: An Introduction to Hegelian Anarchism (Athens: Futura publications, 2016) (https://futurabooks.wordpress.com/2016/03/05/697) 

Book chapter

I also contributed the chapter “Το 1917, ερμηνευμενο φιλοσοφικα”- (in English, 1917, interpreted philosophically) to a collective volume dealing with the significance of the October 1917 revolution, titled Lenin ist kaputt! (Athens: Futura publications, 2018) (https://futurabooks.wordpress.com/2018/02/20/971). 

Online Publications

My 2022 MA Dissertation received high marks, and so was published on the digital repository of the University of Wales, Trinity St. David. Titled “Seneca and the Authorship of the Apocolocyntosis”, it is available here: https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/2204/

I had a short summary of my MA dissertation published on the Substack of noted Stoic author, Dr. Donald J. Robertson, in January 2025, with the same title. It is available here: https://platosacademycentre.substack.com/p/seneca-and-the-authorship-of-the

Translations

My translation from the French of the article of Dr. Jean-Louis Vieillard Baron, “The Lectures of Hegel on the History of Philosophy”, is forthcoming at the Owl of Minerva, the journal of the Hegel Society of America.

Conference Paper Presentations

• Spring 2025, Stony Brook Graduate History Student Conference on Revolution, with a presentation on “Arendt, the councils and Rojava”
• Spring 2025, Long Island Philosophical Society presentation on “The Apology, The Crito, and Socratic Civil Disobedience”
• Spring 2026, “Communism of Spirits” Conference: Aesthetics and Critique of Political life in Classical German Philosophy, University of Potsdam, Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy, where I presented “Hegel and Holderlin: The Heroic Age and Modern Revolution”
• Spring 2026, Colloquium Seminar at the Center for Post-Kantian philosophy, University of Potsdam, where I presented my article, “Bruno Bauer, the Jewish Question, and Hegel”