Nearly two centuries after declaring the end of history, Hegel remains a rich source of insights into our historical nature.
The essays collected here interpret and develop those insights, while also challenging Hegel’s philosophical approach to comprehend present and future phenomena that he could neither experience nor imagine. They represent the very best in contemporary scholarship on Hegel and history, and collectively they address all of the important and disputed topics in the field: Hegel’s claim that history has an end, whether his philosophy of history is Eurocentric or racist, how elements of what he terms subjective spirit and objective spirit contribute to historical development, and the relationship between religion and his philosophy of history.
Table of Contents
Introduction by Will Dudley
PART I: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
1. The End of History and the Nihilism of Becoming by William Maker
2. Hegel, Utopia, and the Philosophy of History by Mario Wenning
3. Hegel’s Account of the Present: An Open-Ended History by Karin de Boer
4. Hegel and the Logics of History by John McCumber
PART II: HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, AND RACE
5. Is Hegel’s Philosophy of History Eurocentric? by Andrew Buchwalter
6. Hegel’s New World: History, Freedom, and Race by Sûrya Parekh
PART III: THE HISTORICITY OF MORALITY, ETHICAL LIFE, AND POLITICS
7. Spirit without the Form of Self: On Hegel’s Reading of Greek Antiquity by Allegra de Laurentiis
8. The Historicity of Ethical Categories: The Dynamic of Moral Imputation in Hegel’s Account of History by Jason Howard
9. The Mechanization of Labor and the Birth of Modern Ethicality in Hegel’s Jena Political Writings by Nathan Ross
10. Hegel’s Claim about Democracy and His Philosophy of History by Mark Tunick
PART IV: THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY AND RELIGION
11. Hegel’s Philosophy of World History as Theodicy: On Evil and Freedom by Pierre Chételat
12. Hegel’s Philosophy of History and Kabbalist Eschatology by Glenn Magee
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