The Blackwell Guide to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

by Editor: Kenneth R. Westphal (University of Kent, UK )

• ISBN13: 9781444306231
• ISBN10: 1444306235
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-02-01
• 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.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

References

Introduction

Hegel's Phenomenological Method and Analysis of Consciousness

Desire, Recognition, and the Relation between Bondsman and Lord

Freedom and Thought: Stoicism, Skepticism, and Unhappy Consciousness

The Challenge of Reason: From Certainty to Truth

Reason Observing Nature

Shapes of Active Reason: The Law of the Heart, Retrieved Virtue, and What Really Matters

The Ethics of Freedom: Hegel on Reason as Law-Giving and Law-Testing

Hegel, Antigone, and Feminist Critique: The Spirit of Ancient Greece

Hegel's Critique of the Enlightenment in "The Struggle of the Enlightenment with Superstition"

"Morality" in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

Religion, History, and Spirit in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

Absolute Knowing(SUNY-Stony Brook, New York)Allegra de Laurentiis

Spirit and Concrete Subjectivity in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit(SUNY-Stony Brook, New York)Marina F. Bykova

General Bibliography

Index of Names

Subject Index

Table of Concordances

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