The Blackwell Guide to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

by Westphal, Kenneth R.

• ISBN13: 9781405131094
• ISBN10: 1405131098
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-20
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Providing a groundbreaking collective commentary, by an international group of leading philosophical scholars, Blackwell's Guide to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit transforms and expands our understanding and appreciation of one of the most challenging works in Western philosophy. Collective philosophical commentary on the whole of Hegel's Phenomenology in sequence with the original text. Original essays by leading international philosophers and Hegel experts. Provides a comprehensive Bibliography of further sources.

Author Biography

Kenneth R. Westphal is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kent. His books include: Hegel’s Epistemological Realism (1989), Hegel’s Epistemology: A Philosophical Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit (2003) and Kant’s Transcendental Proof of Realism (2004); he is the editor of Pragmatism, Reason and Norms (1998).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. ix
References	p. xi
Introduction	p. xvi
Hegel's Phenomenological Method and Analysis of Consciousness	p. 1
Desire, Recognition, and the Relation between Bondsman and Lord	p. 37
Freedom and Thought: Stoicism, Skepticism, and Unhappy Consciousness	p. 55
The Challenge of Reason: From Certainty to Truth	p. 72
Reason Observing Nature	p. 92
Shapes of Active Reason: The Law of the Heart, Retrieved Virtue, and What Really Matters	p. 136
The Ethics of Freedom: Hegel on Reason as Law-Giving and Law-Testing	p. 153
Hegel, Antigone, and Feminist Critique: The Spirit of Ancient Greece	p. 172
Hegel's Critique of the Enlightenment in "The Struggle of the Enlightenment with Superstition"	p. 190
"Morality" in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit	p. 209
Religion, History, and Spirit in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit	p. 226
Absolute Knowing	p. 246
Spirit and Concrete Subjectivity in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit	p. 265
General Bibliography	p. 296
Index of Names	p. 299
Subject Index	p. 304
Table of Concordances	p. 324
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