Few thinkers are more controversial in the history of philosophy than Hegel. He has been dismissed as a charlatan and obscurantist, but also praised as one of the greatest thinkers in modern philosophy. No one interested in philosophy can afford to ignore him. This volume considers all the major aspects of Hegel’s work: epistemology, logic, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of history, philosophy of religion. Special attention is devoted to problems in the interpretation of Hegel: the unity of the Phenomenology of Spirit; the value of the dialectical method; the status of his logic; the nature of his politics. A final group of chapters treats Hegel’s complex historical legacy: the development of Hegelianism and its growth into a left and right wing school; the relation of Hegel and Marx; and the subtle connections between Hegel and contemporary analytic philosophy.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Hegel and the problem of metaphysics by FREDERICK C. BEISER
1 Hegel’s intellectual development to 1807 by H.S. Harris
2 You Can’t Get There from Here: Transition problems in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit by Robert Pippen
3 Hegel’s conception of logic by John Burbidge
4 Hegel’s idealism: The logic of conceptuality by Thomas E. Wartenberg
5 Hegel’s dialectical method by Michael Forster
6 Thought and being: Hegel’s critique of Kant’s theoretical philosophy by Paul Guyer
7 Hegel’s ethics by Allen W. Wood
8 The basic context and structure of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right by Kenneth Westphal
9 Hegel’s historicism by Frederick C. Beiser
10 Hegel on religion and philosophy by Laurence Dickey
11 Hegel’s aesthetics: An overview by Robert Wicks
12 Transformations of Hegelianism, 18os-1846 by John Toews
13 Hegel and Marxism by Allen Wood
14 Hegel and analytic philosophy by Peter Hylton
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