A Companion to Hegel

by Houlgate, Stephen; Baur, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781405170765
• ISBN10: 140517076X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-02
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This companion provides original, scholarly, and cutting-edge essays that cover the whole range of Hegel's mature thought and his lasting influence. A comprehensive guide to one of the most important modern philosophers Essays are written in an accessible manner and draw on the most up-to-date Hegel research Contributions are drawn from across the world and from a wide variety of philosophical approaches and traditions Examines Hegel's influence on a range of thinkers, from Kierkegaard and Marx to Heidegger, Adorno and Derrida Begins with a chronology of Hegel's life and work and is then split into sections covering topics such as Philosophy of Nature, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Religion

Author Biography

Stephen Houlgate is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Hegel, Nietzsche and the Criticism of Metaphysics (1986), An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History (1991, 2005) and The Opening of Hegel’s Logic: From Being to Infinity (2006), and his edited volumes include Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature (1998), The Hegel Reader (1998), and G.W.F. Hegel: Outlines of the Philosophy of Right (2008). He has served as Vice President and President of the Hegel Society of America and is a former editor of the Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain.

Michael Baur is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University in New York City, and Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham Law School. He is Secretary of the Hegel Society of America and has published widely on phenomenology, critical theory, philosophy of law, and nineteenth-century continental philosophy, and on thinkers including Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Aristotle, and Aquinas.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Chronology of Hegel's Life and Work

G. W. F. Hegel: An Introduction to his Life and Thought

Early Writings

Religion, Love, and Law: Hegel's Early Metaphysics of Morals

Phenomenology of Spirit

The Project of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

Self-Consciousness, Anti-Cartesianism and Cognitive Semantics in Hegel's 1807 Phenomenology (Kenneth R. Westphal)

Spirit as the "Unconditioned"

Logic

Thinking Being: Method in Hegel's Logic of Being

Essence, Reflexion and Immediacy in Hegel's Science of Logic

Conceiving

Philosophy of Nature

Hegel and the Sciences

Hegel's Idea of Organic Life

Philosophy of Subjective Spirit

Hegel's Solution to the Mind-Body Problem

Hegel's Philosophy of Language: The Unwritten Volume

Philosophy of Right

Hegel on the Empty Formalism of Kant?s Categorical Imperative

The Idea of a Hegelian "Science" of Society

Hegel's Political Philosophy

Philosophy of History

"The Ruling Categories of the World": The Trinity in Hegel's Philosophy of History and The Rise and Fall of Peoples

Hegel and Ranke: A Re-examination

Aesthetics

Hegel and the "Historical Deduction" of the Concept of Art

Soundings. Hegel on Music

Philosophy of Religion

Love, Recognition, Spirit: Hegel's Philosophy of Religion

Hegel's Proofs of the Existence of God 9

History of Philosophy

Hegel's Aristotle: Philosophy and its Time

From Kant's Highest Good to Hegel's Absolute Knowing

Hegel and Post-Hegelian Thought

Hegel and Marx

Kierkegaard and Hegel on Faith and Knowledge

Thinking of Nothing: Heidegger's Criticism of Hegel's Conception of Negativity

Adorno's Reconception of the Dialectic

Hegel and Pragmatism

The Analytic Neo-Hegelianism of John McDowell and Robert Brandom

Diffrance as Negativity: The Hegelian Remains of Derrida's Philosophy

You Be My Body for Me: Body, Shape, and Plasticity in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (Catherine Malabou and Judith Butler)

Index

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