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Between Vision and Obedience. Rethinking Theological Epistemology: Theological Reflections on Rationality and Agency with Special Reference to Paul Ricoeur and G.W.F. Hegel
The present study seeks to respond theologically to current discussions about ideas of self from the perspective of God’s action in and towards the world. Its aim is to trace a view of rationality that follows the drama of God’s engagement with the world, thus involving dying and resurrection, ascesis and abundance, suffering witness and […]
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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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Hegel’s Lectures on the Proofs of the Existence of God
Hegel’s lectures have had as great a historical impact as the works he himself published. Important elements of his system are elaborated only in the lectures, especially those given in Berlin during the last decade of his life. The original editors conflated materials from different sources and dates, obscuring the development and logic of Hegel’s […]
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Hegel’s System of Logic: The Absolute Idea as Form of Forms
In the Lectures on the Proofs of the Existence of God, prepared just before his death, Hegel states that the question of proving God can receive its “scientific” treatment in the Science of Logic and nowhere else. He also states that Logic, at least his logical system, is the same as that of metaphysics. Here, […]
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Hegel’s Theology or Revelation Thematised
This book highlights Hegel’s application of Absolute Idealism’s logical truth, the basis of all mystical insight, to Christian orthodox confession. The systematic interpretation thus yielded illuminates the profound spirituality of this unitary sophia as (the) idea. The truth represented by spontaneous pictorial presentation, in Biblical or other proclamations at other times, is thereby further unveiled, […]
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Hegel in the Arab World: Modernity, Colonialism, and Freedom
Hegel’s philosophy has been of fundamental importance for the development of contemporary thought and for the very representation of Western modernity. This book investigates Hegel’s influence in the Arab world, generally considered “other” and far from the West, focusing specifically on Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt. Lorella Ventura discusses the reception of Hegelian thought and outlines […]
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Hegel, Marx, and the Necessity and Freedom Dialectic: Marxist-Humanism and Critical Theory in the United States
This book provides close readings of primary texts to analyze the linkage between G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophy and Karl Marx’s critical social theory of necessity and freedom. This is important for three reasons: first, to understand the significance of the changing relationships of work, society, and critical social theory in the origins of Hegelian-Marxism in the […]
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Plato’s Critique of Impure Reason: On Goodness and Truth in the Republic
Plato’s Critique of Impure Reason offers a dramatic interpretation of the Republic, at the center of which lies a novel reading of the historical person of Socrates as the “real image” of the good. Schindler argues that a full response to the attack on reason introduced by Thrasymachus at the dialogue’s outset awaits the revelation of goodness […]
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The Perfection of Freedom: Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel between the Ancients and the Moderns
The Perfection of Freedom seeks to respond to the impoverished conventional notion of freedom through a recovery of an understanding rich with possibilities yet all but forgotten in contemporary thought. This understanding, developed in different but complementary ways in the German thinkers Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel, connects freedom, not exclusively with power and possibility, but […]
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Modern Freedom: Hegel’s Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy
This book, the result of 40 years of Hegel research, gives an integral interpretation of G.W.F. Hegel’s mature practical philosophy as contained in his textbook, Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, published in 1820, and the courses he gave on the same subject between 1817 and 1830. The content of Hegel’s book encompasses not only “right” […]
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Hegel and Ancient Philosophy: A Re-Examination
Hegel’s debts to ancient philosophy are widely acknowledged by scholars, and by the philosopher himself. Roughly half of his Lectures on the History of Philosophy is devoted to ancient philosophy, and throughout his work Hegel frequently frames his positions in relation to the thinkers and movements of antiquity. This volume presents original essays from leading scholars dealing […]
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Hegel’s Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Politics
The renaissance in Hegel scholarship over the past two decades has largely ignored or marginalized the metaphysical dimension of his thought, perhaps most vigorously when considering his social and political philosophy. Many scholars have consistently maintained that Hegel’s political philosophy must be reconstructed without the metaphysical structure that Hegel saw as his crowning philosophical achievement. […]
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The Logic of Hegel’s ‘Logic’: An Introduction
George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel has seldom been considered a major figure in the history of logic. His two texts on logic, both called The Science of Logic, both written in Hegel’s characteristically dense and obscure language, are often considered more as works of metaphysics than logic. But in this highly readable book, John Burbidge sets out […]
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The Owl and the Rooster: Hegel’s Transformative Political Science
Since 1945, there have been two waves of Anglo-American writing on Hegel’s political thought. The first defended it against works portraying Hegel as an apologist of Prussian reaction and a theorist of totalitarian nationalism. The second presented Hegel as a civic humanist critic of liberalism in the tradition of Rousseau. The first suppressed elements of […]
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The Spirit of Hegel
The Spirit of Hegel consists of a collection of essays covering almost every facet of Hegel’s philosophy. Errol E. Harris emphasizes Hegel’s contemporary relevance, elucidating difficult and controversial questions, and revealing Hegel’s insight into key philosophical problems. Harris presents Hegel’s philosophy as consistent, credible, and prophetic in its anticipation of modern scientific developments. DOWNLOAD: (.pdf)
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Hegel’s Political Philosophy: On the Normative Significance of Method and System
Hegel famously argues that his speculative method is a foundation for claims about socio-political reality within a wider philosophical system. This systematic approach is thought a superior alternative to all other ways of philosophical thinking. Hegel’s method and system have normative significance for understanding everything from ethics to the state. Hegel’s approach has attracted much […]
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Introducing Hegel: A Graphic Guide
Hegel’s influential writings on philosophy, politics, history, and art are parts of a larger systematic whole. They are also among the most difficult in the entire literature of philosophy. Introducing Hegel engages the reader, guiding them through a spectacular system of thought which aimed to make sense of history. DOWNLOAD: (.epub)
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After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism
In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility—the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel’s approach to art has been influential in a number of different contexts, but in a twist of historical irony Hegel would die just before the […]
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Hegel’s India: A Reinterpretation with Texts
Presenting all of Hegel’s writings on and about India, this work shows how much effort Hegel expended on what he ultimately characterised merely as fantastic, subjective, wild, dreamy, frenzied, absurd, and repetitive. If Indian art, religion, and philosophy, are so grossly inadequate, what explains his life-long fascination in this unparalleled way? This reinterpretation of Hegel […]
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System, Order, and International Law: The Early History of International Legal Thought from Machiavelli to Hegel
For many centuries, thinkers have tried to understand and to conceptualize political and legal order beyond the boundaries of sovereign territories. Their concepts, deeply entangled with ideas of theology, state formation, and human nature, form the bedrock of today’s theoretical discourses on international law. This volume engages with models of early international legal thought from […]
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Dialectics of Human Nature in Marx’s Philosophy
This book explores Karl Marx’s thought without any ideological agendas, and shows the foundational role the concept of human nature plays in his philosophy. Instead of pitting Marx’s humanism against materialism, dialectical and historical, Mehmet Tabak demonstrates their unity in a novel way. The result is a comprehensive account of Marx’s thought which the author […]
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Plato’s Parmenides Reconsidered
This book offers a very accessible, detailed, and historically-sensitive account of Plato’s Parmenides. Against the prevailing scholarly wisdom, he illustrates conclusively that Parmenides is a satirical dialogue in which Plato attempts to expose the absurd nature of the doctrines and method of his philosophical opponents. Parmenides is very commonly read as a turning point in […]
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The Doctrine of Being in Hegel’s Science of Logic: A Critical Commentary
This book provides an accessible and thorough analysis of “The Doctrine of Being”, the first part of Hegel’s Science of Logic. Though it received much scholarly attention in the past, interpreters of this text have generally refrained from examining it in a sufficiently detailed manner. Through a rigorous and critical reading of Hegel’s speculative arguments, Mehmet […]
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Does History Make Sense?: Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice
Hegel’s philosophy of history―which most critics view as a theory of inevitable progress toward modern European civilization―is widely regarded as a failure today. In Does History Make Sense? Terry Pinkard argues that Hegel’s understanding of historical progress is not the kind of teleological or progressivist account that its detractors claim, but is based on a […]
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Shapes of Freedom: Hegel’s Philosophy of World History in Theological Perspective
Peter C. Hodgson explores Hegel’s bold vision of history as the progress of the consciousness of freedom. Following an introductory chapter on the textual sources, the key categories, and the modes of writing history that Hegel distinguishes, Hodgson presents a new interpretation of Hegel’s conception of freedom. DOWNLOAD: (.pdf)
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Hegel on Beauty
While the current philosophical debate surrounding Hegel’s aesthetics focuses heavily on the philosopher’s controversial ‘end of art’ thesis, its participants rarely give attention to Hegel’s ideas on the nature of beauty and its relation to art. This study seeks to remedy this oversight by placing Hegel’s views on beauty front and center. Peters asks us […]
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Irony and Idealism: Rereading Schlegel, Hegel, and Kierkegaard
Irony and Idealism investigates the historical and conceptual structure of the development of a philosophically distinctive conception of irony in early- to mid-nineteenth century European philosophy. The principal figures treated are the romantic thinkers Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis, Hegel, and Kierkegaard. Fred Rush argues that the development of philosophical irony in this historical period is best […]
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Kierkegaard’s Relation to Hegel
This book, written by the eminent Kierkegaard scholar Niels Thulstrup, provides the first comprehensive treatment of this issue. Presented here in translation from the Danish, the work makes available materials that heretofore have been nearly inaccessible to most American scholars and to many Europeans as well. Originally published by Princeton University Press in 1980. DOWNLOAD: […]
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Hegel’s Phenomenology: The Dialectical Justification of Philosophy’s First Principles
Hegel’s philosophy depends on the answer to a fundamental question: why assume that the abstract structures and necessities of pure thought reveal anything at all about the varied and mutable realm of real life experience? In her study of Hegel’s Phenomenology, Ardis Collins examines the way Hegel interprets the Phenomenology of Spirit as an answer […]
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Schiller, Hegel, and Marx: State, Society, and the Aesthetic Ideal of Ancient Greece
Schiller, Hegel, and Marx looked back to ancient Greek culture, viewing it as the historical embodiment of certain ideals central to aesthetic theory. This volume investigates their viewpoints and how they use Greek culture as an ideal model for remaking the modern world, for overcoming alienation and estrangement. All three believed that the modern world […]
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Hegel and Modern Society
This rich study explores the elements of Hegel’s social and political thought that are most relevant to our society today. Combating the prevailing post-World War II stereotype of Hegel as a proto-fascist, Charles Taylor argues that Hegel aimed not to deny the rights of individuality but to synthesise them with the intrinsic good of community […]
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From Concept to Objectivity: Thinking Through Hegel’s Subjective Logic
This book uncovers the nature and authority of conceptual determination by critically thinking through neglected arguments in Hegel’s Science of Logic pivotal for understanding reason and its role in philosophy. Winfield clarifies the logical problems of presuppositionlessness and determinacy that prepare the way for conceiving the concept, examines how universality, particularity, and individuality are determined, […]
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Hegel and the Arts
That aesthetics is central to Hegel’s philosophical enterprise is not widely acknowledged, nor has his significant contribution to the discipline been truly appreciated. Some may be familiar with his theory of tragedy and his (supposed) doctrine of the “end of art,” but many philosophers and writers on art pay little or no attention to his […]
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Hegel, Husserl and the Phenomenology of Historical Worlds
Hegel famously described philosophy as ‘its own time apprehended in thoughts’, reflecting a desire that we increasingly experience, namely, the desire to understand our complex and fast-changing world. But how can we philosophically describe the world we live in? When Hegel attempted his systematic account of the historical world, he needed to conceive of history […]
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Hegel on the Proofs and the Personhood of God: Studies in Hegel’s Logic and Philosophy of Religion
This book integrates materials from several major sources into a sustained exposition of the proofs and the personhood of God, considering Hegel’s critique of Kant, focusing on and replying to Kant’s attack on the theological proofs, offering the first thorough analysis of Hegel’s Lectures on the Proofs of the Existence of God. Hegel’s analysis of […]
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Hegel’s Dialectical Logic
This clear, accessible account of Hegelian logic makes a case for its enormous seductiveness, its surprising presence in the collective consciousness, and the dangers associated therewith. Offering comprehensive coverage of Hegel’s important works, Bencivenga avoids getting bogged down in short-lived scholarly debates to provide a work of permanent significance and usefulness. DOWNLOAD: (.pdf)
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Notes on Dialectics: Hegel, Marx, Lenin
C.L.R. James is one of the leading Marxist interpreters of colonialism and anti-colonial struggle in the 20th century. Famous for his literary and cultural, as well as theoretical, writings, his thinking engaged with a vast range of issues including civil rights, race, class, socialism, cricket, and cultural production. Notes on Dialectics, first published in 1948, […]
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Hegel’s Introduction to the System: Encyclopaedia Phenomenology and Psychology
As an introduction to his own notoriously complex and challenging philosophy, Hegel recommended the sections on phenomenology and psychology from The Philosophy of Spirit, the third part of his Encyclopaedia of the Philosophic Sciences. These offered the best introduction to his philosophic system, whose main parts are Logic, Nature, and Sprit. Hegel’s Introduction to the System finally makes […]
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Hegel’s God: A Counterfeit Double?
Hegel is widely regarded as one of the major thinkers of the modern era, if not the entire tradition of philosophy. Hegel, like many philosophers, took seriously traditional philosophical perplexities about God, but unlike many modern philosophers he claimed to take the specific characteristic of Christianity into account in his philosophizing. This book presents a […]
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Hegel and Metaphysics: On Logic and Ontology in the System
The collective focus of the essays here presented consists of the attempt to overcome the deadlock between metaphysical and non- (or anti-) metaphysical Hegel interpretations. There is no doubt that Hegel rejects traditional and influential forms of metaphysical thought. There is also no doubt that he grounds his philosophical system on a metaphysical theory of […]
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Benjamin and Hegel: A Constellation in Metaphysics
These lectures, given in 2014 at the „Càtedra Walter Benjamin“, examine the philosophical relations between two of the greatest modern German philosophers, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Walter Benjamin. It is shown what close connections especially Benjamin’s Epistemo-Critical Prologue has to some fundamental aspects of Hegel’s metaphysics and epistemology. By illuminating a certain compatibility of […]
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Philosophy and Religion in German Idealism
This book contains the selected proceedings of a conference on Religion in German Idealism which took place in Nijmegen, Netherlands in January 2000. The conference was organized by the Centre of German Idealism, which co-ordinates the research on classical German philosophy in the Netherlands and in Belgium, with the support of the Dutch Organisation for […]
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F. C. Baur’s Synthesis of Böhme and Hegel: Redefining Christian Theology As a Gnostic Philosophy of Religion
In this book, Professor Simuț shows how Christian theology started to be understood as a Gnostic philosophy of religion in the thought of the 19th-century scholar F. C. Baur. Although Baur was seen traditionally as a theologian and biblical exegete, Simuț argues that he was in fact a philosopher of religion, and it was his […]
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The First German Philosopher: The Mysticism of Jakob Böhme as Interpreted by Hegel
This book investigates Hegel’s interpretation of the mystical philosophy of Jakob Böhme (1575-1624), considered in the context of the reception of Böhme in the 18th and 19th centuries, and of Hegel’s own understanding of mysticism as a philosophical approach. The three sections of this book present: the historical background of Hegel’s encounter with Böhme’s writings; […]
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From Hegel to Windelband: Historiography of Philosophy in the 19th Century
In the 19th century, the history of philosophy becomes the history of a particular science. Modern philosophical historiography is an ambivalent project. On the one hand, we find an affirmative concept of Bildung through tradition and historical insight; on the other, there arises a critical reflection on historical education in the light of an emerging […]
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Hegel’s Philosophy of the Historical Religions
No topic ever disquieted Hegel more than that of Religion. It haunted him, and he wrestled with it all during his life: from his brilliant youthful writings on spirit of Judaism and Christianity, up until the Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion of 1831. Of the ‘Determinate Religions’, Hegel wrote many profound and exhilarating philosophical […]
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Modern Individuality in Hegel’s Practical Philosophy
Modern individuality is the not-so-secret protagonist of Hegel’s practical philosophy. In the framework of spirit, Hegel presents some basic features of the individual’s way of life, lifeworld, self-interpreation, and self-determination, which can also be timely in shaping our own personal and social identities. In this book Erzsébet Rózsa aims to reconstruct Hegel’s theory of individuality […]
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Hegel’s Conception of the Determinate Negation
In this book Terje Sparby develops a comprehensive account of the three forms of the determinate negation in Hegel’s philosophy. Hegel’s actual use of the term may at first seem to be inconsistent, something that is reflected in the scholarship. However, on closer inspection, three forms of determinate negations can be discerned in Hegel’s texts: […]
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: A Propaedeutic
In this book Thomas Sören Hoffmann offers a comprehensive intellectual biography of the “master philosopher of German idealism,” the last great system builder of European philosophy. All the major themes of Hegel’s thought are worked through – logic and metaphysics; history and spirit; art and language; thought and nature; right, religion and science – and […]