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The Schelling Reader
F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854) stands alongside J.G. Fichte and G.W.F. Hegel as one of the great philosophers of the German idealist tradition. The Schelling Reader introduces students to Schelling’s philosophy by guiding them through the first ever English-language anthology of his key texts-an anthology which showcases the vast array of his interests and concerns (metaphysics, epistemology,…
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After Jena: New Essays on Fichte’s Later Philosophy
The career of J. G. Fichte, a central figure in German idealism and in the history of philosophy, divides into two distinct phases: the first period, in which he occupied the chair of critical philosophy at the University of Jena (1794-1799); and the following period, after he left Jena for Berlin. Due in part to…
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Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy
Much of contemporary philosophy, especially in the analytical tradition, regards aesthetics as of lesser significance than epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. Yet, in Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy, Andrew Bowie explores the idea that art and aesthetics have crucial implications for those areas of philosophy. In the modern period, the growth of warranted…
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The Encyclopaedia Logic: Part I of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences with the Zustze
The appearance of this translation is a major event in English-language Hegel studies, for it is more than simply a replacement for Wallace’s translation cum paraphrase. Hegel’s Prefaces to each of the three editions of the Enzyklopädie are translated for the first time into English. There is a very detailed Introduction translating Hegel’s German, which…
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Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies
A critical revaluation of the humanist tradition, Borrowed Light makes the case that the 20th century is the “anticolonial century.” The sparks of concerted resistance to colonial oppression were ignited in the gathering of intellectual malcontents from all over the world in interwar Europe. Many of this era’s principal figures were formed by the experience…
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Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy (German: Ludwig Feuerbach und der Ausgang der klassischen deutschen Philosophie) is a book published by Friedrich Engels in 1886. According to Engels, the seed for this book was planted 40 years before, in The German Ideology written by Marx and Engels, but unpublished in their lifetime.…
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Hegel’s Aesthetics: The Art of Idealism
Hegel is known as “the father of art history,” yet recent scholarship has overlooked his contributions. This is the first comprehensive interpretation of Hegel’s philosophy of art in English in thirty years. In a new analysis of Hegel’s notorious “end of art” thesis, Hegel’s Aesthetics shows the indispensability of Hegel’s aesthetics for understanding his philosophical idealism and…
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Thinking and the I: Hegel and the Critique of Kant
What is the relation between thinking and the I that thinks? And what is the relation between thought and reality? The ordinary view shared by modern philosophers from Descartes to Kant, as well as by common sense, is that there is only thought when someone thinks something, and thoughts and concepts are mental acts that…
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‘G. W. F. Hegel: An Introduction to the Science of Wisdom’ by Stanley Rosen
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born in 1770 and died in 1831. He was educated at Tübingen, in theology and philosophy, and spent the greater part of his life as a teacher, primarily as a professor of philosophy at the University of Berlin, although he held a variety of other positions, including posts at the…
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‘An Introduction to Hegel’ by G. R. G. Mure
Hegel was born in 1770. So, incidentally, were Beethoven and Wordsworth. In the same year Kant published his inaugural dissertation on ‘The Form and Principles of the Sensible and the Intelligible World’, and Goethe was twenty years old. Thus Hegel, who died in 1831, lived through Germany’s intellectual and artistic zenith. His statement that he…
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Between Transcendence and Historicism: The Ethical Nature of the Arts in Hegelian Aesthetics
Between Transcendence and Historicism explores Hegel’s aesthetics within the larger context of the tradition of theoretical reflection to emphasize its unique ability to account for traditional artistic practice. Arguing that the concept of the ethical is central to Hegel’s philosophy of art, Brian K. Etter examines the poverty of modernist aesthetic theories in contrast to…
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G.W.F. Hegel: Critical Assessments
G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831), arguably the greatest philosopher of the nineteenth century, decisively influenced the direction of all subsequent European thought. Variously understood as a theist and an atheist, a conservative and a liberal, an essentialist and a proto-existentialist, a rationalist and an irrationalist, the ambiguities of Hegel’s position mean that “interpreting Hegel means taking a…
Simon Gros 