The Hegel Reader

by Houlgate, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780631203469
• ISBN10: 063120346X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-10-19
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Hegel Reader is the most comprehensive collection of Hegel's writings currently available in English. It contains four important early writings, as well as selections from Hegel's mature writings and lectures which are central to his system and also have special relevance for post-Hegelian thinkers. There is also an extensive bibliography listing the main German editions of Hegel's works, most of the currently available English translations of his texts, as well as a selection of important secondary works.

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) and Freedom, Truth and History: An Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy (1991), and is the editor of Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature (1997).

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(2)
Acknowledgements	xi
General Introduction	1	(22)
Part I Early Writings	23	(22)
Introduction	25	(3)
1 The Earliest System-Programme of German Idealism	28	(2)
2 Love	30	(4)
3 Fragment of a System	34	(6)
4 The Difference Between Fichte's and Schelling's System of Philosophy: The Need of Philosophy	40	(5)
Part II Phenomenology of Spirit	45	(80)
Introduction	47	(3)
5 Phenomenology of Spirit: Preface	50	(20)
6 Phenomenology of Spirit: Introduction	70	(9)
7 Phenomenology of Spirit: Consciousness. Sense-certainty	79	(8)
8 Phenomenology of Spirit: Self-consciousness	87	(27)
9 Phenomenology of Spirit: Spirit. Absolute Freedom and Terror	114	(6)
10 Phenomenology of Spirit: Spirit. Absolute Knowing	120	(5)
Part III Logic	125	(126)
Introduction	127	(6)
11 Encyclopaedia Logic: Introduction	133	(6)
12 Encyclopaedia Logic: Preliminary Conception	139	(36)
13 Science of Logic: Introduction	175	(2)
14 Science of Logic: With What Must the Science Begin?	177	(10)
15 Science of Logic: Doctrine of Being	187	(25)
16 Science of Logic: Doctrine of Essence	212	(31)
17 Science of Logic: Doctrine of the Notion [Concept]	243	(8)
Part IV Philosophy of Nature and Philosophy of Subjective Spirit	251	(68)
Introduction	253	(4)
18 Philosophy of Nature: Introduction	257	(6)
19 Philosophy of Nature: Mechanics. Space and Time	263	(10)
20 Philosophy of Nature: Organics. The Animal Organism	273	(11)
21 Philosophy of Spirit: Introduction	284	(3)
22 Philosophy of Subjective Spirit: Anthropology and Phenomenology of Spirit	287	(6)
23 Philosophy of Subjective Spirit: Psychology	293	(26)
Part V Philosophy of Objective Spirit: Philosophy of Right and Philosophy of History	319	(98)
Introduction	321	(4)
24 Philosophy of Right: Preface and Introduction	325	(15)
25 Philosophy of Right: Abstract Right and Morality	340	(16)
26 Philosophy of Right: Ethical Life	356	(44)
27 Philosophy of History: Introduction	400	(17)
Part VI Philosophy of Absolute Spirit: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Religion and History of Philosophy	417	(112)
Introduction	419	(5)
28 Aesthetics: The Ideal	424	(14)
29 Aesthetics: The Particular Forms of Art	438	(10)
30 Aesthetics: Tragedy, Comedy and Drama	448	(35)
31 Philosophy of Religion: Preface and the Consummate Religion	483	(26)
32 History of Philosophy: Introduction	509	(20)
Bibliography	529	(7)
Index	536