The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality and Dialectic

by Malabou,Catherine

• ISBN13: 9780415287210
• ISBN10: 0415287219
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-10-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Future of Hegelis one of the most important recent books on Hegel, a philosopher who has had a crucial impact on the shape of continental philosophy. Published here in English for the first time, it includes a substantial preface by Jacques Derrida in which he explores the themes and conclusions of Malabou's book. The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality and Dialecticrestores Hegel's rich and complex concepts of time and temporality to contemporary philosophy. It examines Hegel's concept of time, relating it to perennial topics in philosophy such as substance, accident and the identity of the subject. Catherine Malabou also contrasts her account of Hegelian temporality with the interpretation given by Heidegger inBeing and Time, arguing that it is the concept of "plasticity" that best describes Hegel's theory of temporality. The future is understood not simply as a moment in time, but as something malleable and constantly open to change through our interpretation. The Future of Hegelalso develops Hegel's preoccupation with the history of Greek thought and Christianity and explores the role of theology in Hegel's thought. Essential reading for those interested in Hegel and contemporary continental philosophy,The Future of Hegelwill also be fascinating to those interested in the ideas of Heidegger and Derrida.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Jacques Derrida
Acknowledgements	xlviii
Preliminary remarks	xlix
Introduction	1	(20)
PART I Hegel on Man: fashioning a second nature	21	(56)
Introduction	23	(5)
Introduction to the Anthropology	28	(11)
On noetic plasticity: Hegel's reading of De Anima	39	(18)
Habit and organic life	57	(8)
`The proper of man' in question: human specificity and plastic individuality	65	(12)
Conclusion	75	(2)
PART II Hegel on God: the turn of double nature	77	(54)
Introduction	79	(6)
Presentation of Revealed Religion	85	(6)
God without transcendence? The theologians contra Hegel	91	(12)
The death of God and the death of philosophy: alienation and its double fate	103	(12)
Divine plasticity: or, the turn of events	115	(16)
Conclusion	125	(6)
PART III Hegel on the philosopher or, two forms of the fall	131	(63)
Introduction	133	(2)
Presentation of Philosophy	135	(8)
The dialectical simplification	143	(12)
`On the Self'	155	(12)
The philosopher, the reader and the speculative proposition	167	(27)
Conclusion	184	(10)
Notes	194	(36)
Bibliography	230	(6)
Index	236