Category: Philosophy
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‘Phenomenology of Spirit’ by Georg W. F. Hegel
Perhaps one of the most revolutionary works of philosophy ever presented, The Phenomenology of Spirit is Hegel’s 1807 work that is in numerous ways extraordinary. It begins with a Preface, created after the rest of the manuscript was completed, that explains the core of his method and what sets it apart from any preceding philosophy. The Introduction, […]
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Werke in 20 Bänden
The twenty-volume edition of over 11,000 pages, published by Eva Moldenhauer and Karl Markus Michel, is the easily accessible and inexpensive edition of the writings of these classics in the history of philosophy. From the early writings on the phenomenology of the mind and the encyclopedia to the lectures on the history of philosophy, it […]
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The Logic of Desire: An Introduction to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Peter Kalkavage’s The Logic of Desire guides the reader through Hegel’s great work. Given the book’s legendary difficulty, one may well ask, “Why even try to read the Phenomenology?” In his preface, Kalkavage explains why he thinks a reader should try: There is much to commend the study of Hegel: his attentiveness to the deepest, most fundamental questions […]
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Hegel: A Biography
One of the founders of modern philosophical thought Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) has gained the reputation of being one of the most abstruse and impenetrable of thinkers. This first major biography of Hegel in English offers not only a complete, up-to-date account of the life, but also an overview of the key philosophical concepts […]
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‘Hegel’ by Frederick Beiser
Georg W. F. Hegel (1770-1831) is one of the major philosophers of the nineteenth century. Many of the major philosophical movements of the twentieth century-from existentialism to analytic philosophy-grew out of reactions against Hegel. He is also one of the hardest philosophers to understand and his complex ideas, though rewarding, are often misunderstood. In this […]
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On Hegel’s Logic: Fragments of a Commentary
Written with graduate students in mind, or anyone struggling to make sense of Hegel’s cryptic prose, On Hegel’s Logic throws light on many basic features of his conceptual thinking, and shows that Hegel’s Logic could also be used as a philosophy of contemporary symbolic logic. How can Hegel’s Logic be called necessary? Relying on Hegel’s […]
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An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth, and History
This classic introduction to one of the most influential modern thinkers, G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831), has now been updated and expanded to make it even more comprehensive. The book covers every aspect of Hegel’s mature thought, including his philosophy of history, logic, political philosophy, aesthetics and philosophy of religion. For the second edition, five completely new […]
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The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality and Dialectic
This book is one of the most important recent books on Hegel, a philosopher who has had a crucial impact on the shape of continental philosophy. Published here in English for the first time, it includes a substantial preface by Jacques Derrida in which he explores the themes and conclusions of Malabou’s book. The Future […]
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Hegel’s Critique of Metaphysics
Hegel’s Science of Logic has received less attention than his Phenomenology of Spirit, but Hegel himself took it to be his highest philosophical achievement and the backbone of his system. The present book focuses on this most difficult of Hegel’s published works. Béatrice Longuenesse offers a close analysis of core issues, including discussions of what […]
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The Tragic Absolute: German Idealism and the Languishing of God
In The Tragic Absolute, David Farrell Krell shows that German Idealist and Romantic theories of literature and aesthetic judgment, especially when it comes to tragedy, are closer to the heart of metaphysics and ethics than previously thought. Krell not only explores the contributions of Schelling, Hölderlin, Novalis, Hegel, and Nietzsche to the aesthetics of tragedy, […]
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Reason in the World: Hegel’s Metaphysics and Its Philosophical Appeal
This book defends an interpretation of Hegel’s theoretical philosophy according to which Hegel’s project in his central Science of Logic has a single organizing focus, by taking metaphysics as fundamental to philosophy, rather than any epistemological problem about knowledge or intentionality. It argues Hegel pursues more specifically the metaphysics of reason, concerned with grounds, reasons, or conditions in […]
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The Art of Hegel’s Aesthetics: Hegelian Philosophy and the Perspectives of Art History
This volume explores Hegel’s 1820s »Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik«. The objective is two-fold: first, to ask how Hegel’s work might illuminate specific periods and artworks in light of contemporary art historical discussions; and second, to explore how art history might help us to make better sense (and use) of Hegelian aesthetics. Given the recent resurgence […]
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The Actual and the Rational: Hegel and Objective Spirit
One of Hegel’s most controversial and confounding claims is that “the real is rational and the rational is real.” In this book Jean-François Kervégan offers a thorough analysis and explanation of that claim, along the way delivering a compelling account of modern social, political, and ethical life. Kervégan begins with Hegel’s term “objective spirit,” the […]
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Art, Myth and Society in Hegel’s Aesthetics
This book returns to the student transcripts of Hegel’s lectures on aesthetics, which have yet to be translated into English and in some cases remain unpublished. David James develops the idea that these transcripts show that Hegel was primarily interested in understanding art as an historical phenomenon and, more specifically, in terms of its role […]
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The Age of German Idealism
The turn of the nineteenth century marked a rich and exciting explosion of philosophical energy and talent. The enormity of the revolution set off in philosophy by Immanuel Kant was comparable, by Kant’s own estimation, with the Copernican Revolution that ended the Middle Ages. The movement he set in motion, the fast-moving and often cantankerous […]
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In The Spirit Of Hegel
The Phenomenology of Spirit was Hegel’s grandest experiment, changing our vision of the world and the very nature of philosophical enterprise. In this book, Solomon captures the bold and exhilarating spirit, presenting the Phenomenology as a thoroughly personal as well as philosophical work. He begins with a historical introduction, which lays the groundwork for a section-by-section analysis […]
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The Young Hegelians: An Anthology
The course of Western philosophy has been profoundly altered by the philosophy of Hegel. The first of those who set about the transforming and revisioning of the world according to Hegel’s dialectical theory were called “The Young Hegelians.” Today, the most recognized names among them are Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, but in their own […]
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Hegel’s Idea of a Phenomenology of Spirit
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit has acquired a paradoxical reputation as one the most important and most impenetrable and inconsistent philosophical works. In Hegel’s Idea of a Phenomenology of Spirit, Michael N. Forster advances an original reading of the work. His approach differs from that of previous scholars in two crucial ways: he reads the work, first, as a whole—not piecemeal, […]
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German Idealism and the Problem of Knowledge: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel
The problem of knowledge in German Idealism has drawn increasing attention in recent years. This is the first attempt at a systematic critique that covers all four major figures, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. In examining the evolution of the German idealist discussion with respect to a broad array of concepts (epistemology, metaphysics, logic, dialectic, […]
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Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit
In the most influential chapter of his most important philosophical work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel makes the central and disarming assertions that “self-consciousness is desire itself” and that it attains its “satisfaction” only in another self-consciousness. Hegel on Self-Consciousness presents a groundbreaking new interpretation of these revolutionary claims, tracing their roots to Kant’s philosophy and demonstrating their […]
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Hegel’s Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness
Robert Pippin offers an interpretation of Hegel’s idealism, which focuses on Hegel’s appropriation and development of Kant’s theoretical project. Hegel is presented neither as a precritical metaphysician nor as a social theorist, but as a critical philosopher whose disagreements with Kant, especially on the issue of intuitions, enrich the idealist arguments against empiricism, realism and […]
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Hegel’s Philosophical Psychology
Hegel’s Philosophical Psychology draws attention to a largely overlooked piece of Hegel’s philosophy: his substantial and philosophically rich treatment of psychology at the end of the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit, which itself belongs to his main work, The Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences. This volume makes the case that Hegel’s approach to philosophy of mind […]
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Cohen und Rosenzweig: Ihre Auseinandersetzung mit dem deutschen Idealismus
Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) und Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929) werden zu Recht zu den wichtigsten jüdischen Denkern der Neuzeit gezählt. Sie sind auch erstrangige Kenner des klassischen deutschen Idealismus gewesen: Cohen hat die neukantianische Schule des kritischen Idealismus entscheidend mitgestaltet, und mit seinem Buch Hegel und der Staat veröffentlichte Rosenzweig ein Standardwerk, das an Aktualität bis heute […]
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Hegels Ästhetik als Theorie der Moderne
Dieses Buch es ist eine häufig übersehene These der Hegelschen Ästhetik, dass die künstlerische Arbeit ein Ort der Selbstverständigung einer Gesellschaft ist. Schon in seinem ersten Hauptwerk, der „Phänomenologie des Geistes“, sind Hegels Überlegungen zur Kunst eingebunden in den Versuch einer Bestimmung der Moderne, und auch in den später publizierten Texten Hegels sowie in seinen […]
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The Owl’s Flight: Hegel’s Legacy to Contemporary Philosophy
This book presents a unique rethinking of G. W. F. Hegel’s philosophy from unusual and controversial perspectives in order to liberate new energies from his philosophy. The role Hegel ascribes to women in the shaping of society and family, the reconstruction of his anthropological and psychological perspective, his approach to human nature, the relationship between […]
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Hegel, Logic and Speculation
This book offers new critical perspectives on the relationship between the notions of speculation, logic and reality in Hegel’s thought as basis for his philosophical account of nature, history, spirit and human experience. The systematic functions of logic and pure thought are explored in their concrete forms and processual progression from subjective spirit to philosophy […]
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Das Ende der Kunst als Anfang freier Kunst
Hegels These vom Ende der Kunst beinhaltet nicht die Todesanzeige für die Kunst. Im Gegenteil: Es handelt sich für Hegel um den Anfang der Entfaltung freier Kunst in der Moderne. Hegels These vom Ende der Kunst hat zusammen mit dem Topos vom Ende der Geschichte große Entrüstung ausgelöst. In beiden Fällen führte die unzulässige Identifikation […]
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Memory, History, Justice in Hegel
This book offers a new perspective on Hegel’s idea of history. While the philosophy of history is today one of the most discredited and certainly least studied parts of Hegel’s system, a “standard” interpretation of it continues to be cited in the debate among historians and philosophers – although it is cited, more often than […]
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The Philosophy of Hegel
Few philosophers can induce as much puzzlement among students as Hegel. His works are notoriously dense and make very few concessions for a readership unfamiliar with his systematic view of the world. Allen Speight’s introduction to Hegel’s philosophy takes a chronological perspective on the development of Hegel’s system. In this way, some of the most […]
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Kant’s Theory of Knowledge
While most interpretive studies of the Critique of Pure Reason are either too scholarly or too superficial to be of practical use to students, Hartnack has achieved a concise comprehensive analysis of the work in a lucid style that communicates the essence of extraordinarily complex arguments in the simplest possible way. An ideal companion to the First Critique, […]
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Dialectics, Politics, and the Contemporary Value of Hegel’s Practical Philosophy
This book explores and details the actuality (Aktualität) of Hegel’s social and political philosophy—its relevance, topicality, and contemporary validity. It asserts—against the assumptions of those in a wide range of traditions—that Hegel’s thought not only remains relevant to debates in current social and political theory, but is capable of productively enhancing and enriching those debates. […]
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Kant’s Cosmology: From the Pre-Critical System to the Antinomy of Pure Reason
This book provides a comprehensive account of Kant’s development from the 1755/56 metaphysics to the cosmological antinomy of 1781. With the Theory of the Heavens (1755) and the Physical Monadology (1756), the young Kant had presented an ambitious approach to physical cosmology based on an atomistic theory of matter, which contributed to the foundations of […]
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Hegel on Philosophy in History
In this volume honouring Robert Pippin, prominent philosophers such as John McDowell, Slavoj Žižek, Jonathan Lear, and Axel Honneth explore Hegel’s proposals concerning the historical character of philosophy. Hegelian doctrines discussed include the purported end of art, Hegel’s view of human history, including the history of philosophy as the history of freedom (or autonomy), and […]
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The Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo to Hegel
This book is a study of the development of ideas from the Renaissance to the opening of the nineteenth century. It is intellectual history in the largest sense, not confined to ideas in one or a few fields, but covering the whole range of Western intellectual activity during these most formative centuries. The important feature […]
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Early German Philosophy: Kant and His Predecessors
Early German Philosophy is a comprehensive history of German philosophy from its medieval beginnings to near the end of the eighteenth century. In exploring the spirit of German intellectual life and its distinctiveness from that of other countries, Beck devotes whole chapters to four great philosophers — Nicholas of Cusa, Leibniz, Lessing and Kant — […]
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Hegel’s Shorter Logic: An Introduction and Commentary
Since its publication in 1902, John Grier Hibben’s classic work on Hegel’s Encyclopedia Logic has been one of the clearest, most illuminating, most helpful, and most popular expositions of this rich and difficult text. Nevertheless, its language has needed to be modernized, its interpretations have needed to be revised and updated in view of recent […]
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Before and after Hegel: A Historical Introduction to Hegel’s Thought
In this engaging and accessible introduction to Hegel’s theory of knowledge, Tom Rockmore brings together the philosopher’s life, his thought, and his historical moment—without, however, reducing one to another. Laying out the philosophical tradition of German idealism, Rockmore concisely explicates the theories of Kant, Fichte, and Schelling, essential to an understanding of Hegel’s thought. He […]
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Hegel’s Idea of Philosophy: With a New Translation of Hegel’s Introduction to the History of Philosophy
In his Introduction to the History of Philosophy, Hegel undertook to say what philosophy is; that it can be said to have a history. He treated philosophy as an organic unity, a process, to which philosophers down through the ages have made contributions. Thus in Hegel’s view, the history of philosophy is inseparable from doing […]
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Kant’s Modal Metaphysics
What is possible and why? What is the difference between the merely possible and the actual? In Kant’s Modal Metaphysics Nicholas Stang examines Kant’s lifelong engagement with these questions and their role in his philosophical development. This is the first book to trace Kant’s theory of possibility all the way from the so-called ‘pre-Critical’ writings […]
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Subjectivity and Ethical Life
David James offers an innovative interpretation of a key element of Hegel’s political thought and seeks to identify the basic aims of Hegel’s philosophy of right through an analysis of his approach to subjectivity. He argues that the basic aim of Hegel’s philosophy of right is to accommodate subjectivity within a framework of universally valid […]
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Kant and the Culture of Enlightenment
Katerina Deligiorgi interprets Kant’s conception of enlightenment within the broader philosophical project of his critique of reason. Analyzing a broad range of Kant’s works, including his Critique of Pure Reason, the Critique of Judgment, his lectures on anthropology and logic, as well as his shorter essays, she identifies the theoretical and practical commitments that show […]
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Philosophical Legacies: Essays on the Thought of Kant, Hegel, and Their Contemporaries
Immanuel Kant, the Prussian thinker at the forefront of the German Enlightenment, decisively shaped what is arguably the central philosophical legacy of his era, a legacy of critical rationality and ethico-political self-determination. In Philosophical Legacies, Daniel O. Dahlstrom brings exceptional scholarship to an examination of the diversity and lasting influence not only of Kant but […]
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The Ethics of Authorship: Communication, Seduction, and Death in Hegel and Kierkegaard
This is a book about the ethics of authorship. Most directly, it explores different conceptualizations of the responsibilities of the author to the reader. But it also engages the question of what styles of authorship allow these responsibilities to be met. Style itself is an ethical issue, since the relation between the writing subject and […]
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On Hegel: The Sway of the Negative
Hegel is most famous for his view that conflicts between contrary positions are necessarily resolved. Whereas this optimism, inherent in modernity as such, has been challenged from Kierkegaard onward, many critics have misconstrued Hegel’s own intentions. Focusing on the Science of Logic, this transformative reading of Hegel on the one hand exposes the immense force […]
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Understanding Hegel’s Mature Critique of Kant
Hegel’s critique of Kant was a turning point in the history of philosophy: for the first time, the concrete, situated, and in certain senses “naturalistic” style pioneered by Hegel confronted the thin, universalistic, and argumentatively purified style of philosophy that had found its most rigorous expression in Kant. The controversy has hardly died away: it […]
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Hegel’s Grand Synthesis: A Study of Being, Thought, and History
This book offers the first genuinely systematic treatment of Hegel’s eschatology in the literature. It is an investigation into Hegel’s project to demonstrate the ultimate unity of thought and being (consciousness and reality, self and world). The author traces the project through Hegel’s epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of history. The grand synthesis creates a basic […]
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The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism
For philosophers of German idealism and early German romanticism, the imagination is central to issues ranging from hermeneutics to transcendental logic and from ethics to aesthetics. This volume of new essays brings together, for the first time, comprehensive and critical reflections on the significances of the imagination during this period, with essays on Kant and […]
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Logik Und Moderne: Hegels Wissenschaft Der Logik Als Paradigma Moderner Subjektivität
Die Wissenschaft der Logik kann ohne Zweifel als das Hauptwerk Hegels mit epochemachender Bedeutung gelten. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes machen deutlich, dass es sich um eine moderne Logik handelt, die gegen das Märchen vom sogenannten ‚nachmetaphysischen‘ Zeitalter eine die vormalige Metaphysik aufhebende neue Metaphysik bietet und damit eine revolutionäre Zäsur in der Philosophiegeschichte darstellt. Es wird nachgewiesen, dass Hegels Logik ein […]
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Nothing Absolute: German Idealism and the Question of Political Theology
Featuring scholars at the forefront of contemporary political theology and the study of German Idealism, Nothing Absolute explores the intersection of these two flourishing fields. Against traditional approaches that view German Idealism as a secularizing movement, this volume revisits it as the first fundamentally philosophical articulation of the political-theological problematic in the aftermath of the Enlightenment and […]
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Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza: A Study in German Idealism, 1801–1831
Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza explores the powerful continuing influence of Spinoza’s metaphysical thinking in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German philosophy. George di Giovanni examines the ways in which Hegel’s own metaphysics sought to meet the challenges posed by Spinoza’s monism, not by disproving monism, but by rendering it moot. In this, di […]
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