Skopje, 30 December 2025 (MIA) — Titled "Hegel is Dead," Gordana Stojanovska's new book of essays based on her research at Skopje's Miladinov Brothers City Library has been published by Makedonska Rech, the publisher said in a press release. 

According to the release, Stojanovska spent seven years, from 2018 to 2024, doing research for the book. The book is a collection of her writings on how much Skopje residents read; what time of year people read the most; and what the library was like in its heyday. 

She also writes on the significance of books, the library as a public good, the role of librarians in the ultimate success of libraries as well as the modern challenges posed by "the hyperproduction of information and electronic publications."

In "Hegel is Dead," the author also criticizes the public library's current management under the leadership of the library's director Snezhana Stojchevska, the publisher said.

Stojanovska spent her entire working life as a librarian in Miladinov Brothers City Library's science department. She is also the author of the non-fiction books "70 Years of Miladinov Brothers City Library" and "Completing Library Materials" as well as the fiction books "In Defense of Memory" and "The Daughter of the Sun."

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) was an influential German philosopher, a key figure in German Idealism, known for redefining logic as the dynamic, rational structure of reality itself.

Of particular note is Hegel's dialectical method — a philosophical process of development through contradiction, often simplified as Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis — as well as his profound ideas on history, spirit, freedom and the state, significantly impacting thinkers like Karl Marx and shaping modern Western thought through works like "Phenomenology of Spirit" and "Science of Logic." mr/